Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Viaphoton LLC has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, indicating that at least one art unit handles more than one matter while examiner assignments remain separate.
THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a repeated examiner assignment favors matter-specific response preparation. At the same time, the shared art-unit structure supports comparison of cited art, claim interpretation, and recurring examination issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | 1 | 75.8% | +25.0% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 70.7% | +17.5% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.2% |
| LEE, PETE T | 1 | 75.0% | +11.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633655 | PRE-TERMINATED CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEM | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418175 | CABLE MANAGEMENT BUNDLE CLIP | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 28d |
| 18770358 | FIBER POLARITY MAPPINGS | THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | — |
| 18374548 | SURGE PROTECTION BUS BAR | LEE, PETE T | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418175 | CABLE MANAGEMENT BUNDLE CLIP | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 28d |
| 18770358 | FIBER POLARITY MAPPINGS | THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | — |
| 18620955 | OUTSIDE FIBER TO INSIDE FIBER MODULAR INTERCONNECT SYSTEM | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 18374548 | SURGE PROTECTION BUS BAR | LEE, PETE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 3 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770358 | FIBER POLARITY MAPPINGS | THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18633655 | PRE-TERMINATED CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEM | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2874 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18620955 | OUTSIDE FIBER TO INSIDE FIBER MODULAR INTERCONNECT SYSTEM | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18418175 | CABLE MANAGEMENT BUNDLE CLIP | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18374548 | SURGE PROTECTION BUS BAR | LEE, PETE T | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialViaphoton LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Darby Margaret Thomason has the most, with 1 of Viaphoton LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
