Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

TCL Technology Group Corporation

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (90%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
20% of docket
6
Semiconductors
60% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M 1 84.0% +9.0%
TRAN, TRANG Q 1 80.9% +7.0%
CHOWDHURY, AFROZA Y 1 72.4% -6.5%
TAYLOR, EARL N 1 87.9% +6.4%
YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 1 73.4% +18.6%
WEILAND, ADAM DAVID 1 96.8% +4.8%
WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 1 70.8% +12.4%
UTT, ETHAN A 1 46.5% +45.0%
CHU, YONG LIANG 1 74.8% +3.4%
MARUF, SHEIKH 1 86.8% +10.2%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18681869 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR VIDEO ACTION DETECTION BASED ON END-TO-END FRAMEWORK BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M 59d overdue
18263180 DISPLAY PANEL WEILAND, ADAM DAVID 23d overdue
18270712 PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICES MARUF, SHEIKH 9d
18557930 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY PANEL TAYLOR, EARL N 15d
18570100 QUANTUM DOT LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS TRAN, TRANG Q 83d

Interview Candidates (4)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18270663 OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 66d overdue
18270712 PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICES MARUF, SHEIKH 9d
18263356 DISPLAY PANEL YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 20d
18270628 QLED AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF UTT, ETHAN A 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2661 1
2811 1
2628 1
2896 1
2891 1
2813 1
2893 1
1783 1
1731 1
2897 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18681869 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR VIDEO ACTION DETECTION BASED ON END-TO-END FRAMEWORK BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M 2661 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18570100 QUANTUM DOT LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS TRAN, TRANG Q 2811 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18565169 PREPARATION METHOD FOR QLED DEVICE, DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS CHOWDHURY, AFROZA Y 2628 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18557930 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY PANEL TAYLOR, EARL N 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 28, 2023
18263356 DISPLAY PANEL YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 2891 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18263180 DISPLAY PANEL WEILAND, ADAM DAVID 2813 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18270663 OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 2893 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18270628 QLED AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF UTT, ETHAN A 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18270714 METHOD FOR REGULATING ELECTRON MOBILITY OF ZINC OXIDE CHU, YONG LIANG 1731 §112 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18270712 PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICES MARUF, SHEIKH 2897 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 30, 2023

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