Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Young Optics Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners but 1 art unit, showing examiner diversity within a common technical examination setting.
NGUYEN, THONG Q is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The pending workload is therefore spread among the examiners even though the art unit is shared. Counsel can use the common art unit as a coordination point while preparing examiner-specific responses.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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, THONG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
| FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 1 | 76.2% | +10.6% |
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 77.6% | +15.3% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621857 | OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM | LEI, JIE | 12d |
| 18663703 | FIXED-FOCUS IMAGING LENS | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 15d |
| 18740882 | INFRARED IMAGING LENS | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| 17881624 | IMAGING LENS | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740882 | INFRARED IMAGING LENS | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18663703 | FIXED-FOCUS IMAGING LENS | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18621857 | OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 17881624 | IMAGING LENS | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialYoung Optics Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Thong Q Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Young Optics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
