Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vuzix Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, so examiner assignments are fully separate while several actions share technical groups.
NGUYEN, THUKHANH T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Art-unit coordination may support consistent arguments, but each action requires its own examiner-focused analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (11%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | 1 | 74.7% | +10.7% |
| HOEY, ALISSA L | 1 | 44.4% | +32.0% |
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.3% | +22.0% |
| STAHL, MICHAEL J | 1 | 90.1% | +7.5% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| QURESHI, MARIAM | 1 | 75.5% | +22.5% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 1 | 82.9% | +7.7% |
| HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 1 | 69.0% | +8.3% |
| PAN, JIA X | 1 | 72.4% | +37.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511512 | MICRO DISPLAY THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GAGNON, GRANT A | 22d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711387 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE HAVING HIGH-INDEX OUTER LAYERS | QURESHI, MARIAM | 6d |
| 19122916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING DIFFRACTIVE FEATURES | NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | — |
| 19105866 | HEADBAND WITH MOUNTABLE ELECTRONICS | HOEY, ALISSA L | — |
| 18728875 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE WITH INTERFERENCE FILTER | STAHL, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18271208 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE WITH FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | — |
| 18096376 | AUGMENTED REALITY OPTICAL BLOCK | PAN, JIA X | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711387 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE HAVING HIGH-INDEX OUTER LAYERS | QURESHI, MARIAM | 6d |
| 19122916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING DIFFRACTIVE FEATURES | NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | — |
| 19105866 | HEADBAND WITH MOUNTABLE ELECTRONICS | HOEY, ALISSA L | — |
| 18959545 | DIGITAL WRITING OF LARGE DIFFRACTION GRATING PATTERNS | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| 18726657 | HEAD MOUNTED IMAGING APPARATUS WITH ROTATING OPTICAL COUPLING | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| 18096376 | AUGMENTED REALITY OPTICAL BLOCK | PAN, JIA X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 2871 | 3 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19122916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING DIFFRACTIVE FEATURES | NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19105866 | HEADBAND WITH MOUNTABLE ELECTRONICS | HOEY, ALISSA L | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18959545 | DIGITAL WRITING OF LARGE DIFFRACTION GRATING PATTERNS | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18728875 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE WITH INTERFERENCE FILTER | STAHL, MICHAEL J | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2024 |
| 18726657 | HEAD MOUNTED IMAGING APPARATUS WITH ROTATING OPTICAL COUPLING | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18711387 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE HAVING HIGH-INDEX OUTER LAYERS | QURESHI, MARIAM | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18511512 | MICRO DISPLAY THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18271208 | IMAGE LIGHT GUIDE WITH FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18096376 | AUGMENTED REALITY OPTICAL BLOCK | PAN, JIA X | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVuzix Corporation has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Thukhanh T Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Vuzix Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
