Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.

22 pending office actions • 20 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 114 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (1)

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.

1
Hard (5%)
16
Medium (73%)
0
Easy (0%)
5
Unknown (23%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only15 (68%)
§102 only1 (5%)
No statute on record5 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
18% of docket
7
Information Tech
32% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
9
Semiconductors
41% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 1 83.0% +13.4%
KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 1 87.4% +2.5%
AHMED, JAMIL 1 81.9% +15.2%
WANG, YAOTANG 1 79.7% +16.2%
NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 1 78.7% +19.0%
MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 1 54.9% +47.9%
TAYONG, HELENE E 1 89.3% +14.9%
COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 1 100.0% +0.0%
SHARMA, POONAM 1 89.5% +13.3%
WOODS, BRANDON SEAN 1 84.2% +9.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18464586 MULTI-SENSOR TILT MEASUREMENT FOR ANTENNA MONITORING DEVICES WOODS, BRANDON SEAN 87d overdue
18985284 TIME OF FLIGHT-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 43d overdue
18520881 CONCURRENT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD (EMF) MEASUREMENT FROM MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 16d
18496390 ACTIVE TESTING FOR AIR-INTERFACE-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SHARMA, POONAM 40d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18535008 PRECODING AND SCHEDULING WHILE MINIMIZING AGE OF INCORRECT INFORMATION FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS TAYONG, HELENE E 27d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18985284 TIME OF FLIGHT-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 43d overdue
18428128 ARTICLE INCLUDING A RELEASE LAYER MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 18d overdue
18809402 OPTICAL FILTER FOR AN OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE AHMED, JAMIL 3d overdue
18535008 PRECODING AND SCHEDULING WHILE MINIMIZING AGE OF INCORRECT INFORMATION FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS TAYONG, HELENE E 27d
18742724 MEASURING AND ANALYZING DATA TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION LINE (DSL) WANG, YAOTANG 28d
18595657 CLEANING RAW DATA GENERATED BY A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOR DEPLOYMENT IN A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODEL NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 33d
18496390 ACTIVE TESTING FOR AIR-INTERFACE-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SHARMA, POONAM 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 3
2424 1
2111 1
2877 1
2409 1
2447 1
1787 1
2631 1
2857 1
2472 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18985284 TIME OF FLIGHT-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2024
18960776 RECOVERING SCRAMBLING SEQUENCE INITIALIZATION FROM FROZEN BITS OF AN UNCODED DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION VECTOR KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 2111 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2024
18809402 OPTICAL FILTER FOR AN OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE AHMED, JAMIL 2877 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 20, 2024
18742724 MEASURING AND ANALYZING DATA TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION LINE (DSL) WANG, YAOTANG 2409 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 13, 2024
18595657 CLEANING RAW DATA GENERATED BY A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOR DEPLOYMENT IN A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODEL NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 2447 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18428128 ARTICLE INCLUDING A RELEASE LAYER MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 1787 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18535008 PRECODING AND SCHEDULING WHILE MINIMIZING AGE OF INCORRECT INFORMATION FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS TAYONG, HELENE E 2631 §101 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18520881 CONCURRENT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD (EMF) MEASUREMENT FROM MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18496390 ACTIVE TESTING FOR AIR-INTERFACE-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SHARMA, POONAM 2472 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18464586 MULTI-SENSOR TILT MEASUREMENT FOR ANTENNA MONITORING DEVICES WOODS, BRANDON SEAN 2845 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2023
18456222 TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION OF MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM SENSORS FOR ANTENNA MONITORING DEVICES LEE, KYOUNG 2817 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18447156 ARTICLE INCLUDING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT CHIEN, LUCY P 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18355586 PHOTODIODE MODULES WITH REDUCED RECOVERY TIMES YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S 2893 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18352709 TEMPERATURE-ACTIVE COATING ON A COMPONENT SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18301102 DETERMINATION OF DENSE EMBEDDING TENSORS FOR LOG DATA USING BLOCKWISE RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS UDDIN, MD I 2169 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Apr 14, 2023
18107284 NETWORK THROUGHPUT TESTS AT PREDEFINED THRESHOLDS DU, ZONGHUA A 2444 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Feb 08, 2023
18166254 ANTENNA MOUNT EXTENSION BRACKET WITH A RETENTION AND ALIGNMENT CLIP WUJCIAK, ALFRED J 3636 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 08, 2023
17952634 HYBRID DIFFUSER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE BOOHER, ADAM W 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 26, 2022
17742597 LAMELLAR PARTICLES WITH FUNCTIONAL COATING TUROCY, DAVID P 1718 Other Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 12, 2022
17449150 OPTICAL INTERFERENCE FILTER WILKES, ZACHARY W 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 28, 2021
17338118 METHOD OF REPLICATING A MICROSTRUCTURE PATTERN MELLOTT, JAMES M 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jun 03, 2021
17308555 ARTICLE INCLUDING PHTHALOCYANINE DYES MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending May 05, 2021

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