Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Young Optics Inc.

7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
7
Semiconductors
100% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FISSEL, TRAVIS S 1 76.4% +10.6%
LEI, JIE 1 72.6% +16.7%
CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. 1 89.5% +6.5%
OWENS, DANELL L 1 76.4% +10.7%
DUNNING, RYAN S 1 76.2% +22.7%
HOWARD, RYAN D 1 79.7% +12.4%
KING, GEORGE G 1 58.2% +37.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18598474 DYNAMIC ANGLE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A PROJECTOR LIGHT VALVE CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. 1d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18510728 DE-SPECKLE MECHANISM KING, GEORGE G 87d overdue
18529020 OPTICAL HOMOGENIZER AND DE-SPECKLE DEVICE INCLUDING SAME HOWARD, RYAN D 60d overdue
18432680 IMAGING LENS DUNNING, RYAN S 52d overdue
18592962 COOLING DEVICE FOR OPTICAL ENGINE OWENS, DANELL L 5d overdue
18621857 OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM LEI, JIE 12d
18663703 FIXED-FOCUS IMAGING LENS FISSEL, TRAVIS S 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 4
2882 3

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18663703 FIXED-FOCUS IMAGING LENS FISSEL, TRAVIS S 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 14, 2024
18621857 OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM LEI, JIE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18598474 DYNAMIC ANGLE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A PROJECTOR LIGHT VALVE CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. 2882 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18592962 COOLING DEVICE FOR OPTICAL ENGINE OWENS, DANELL L 2882 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18432680 IMAGING LENS DUNNING, RYAN S 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2024
18529020 OPTICAL HOMOGENIZER AND DE-SPECKLE DEVICE INCLUDING SAME HOWARD, RYAN D 2882 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18510728 DE-SPECKLE MECHANISM KING, GEORGE G 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2023

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