Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Young Optics Inc. is managing 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The workload is distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is handling more than 1 of the current actions. This high degree of examiner diversity across the 6 pending office actions suggests that the company's prosecution results will depend on a wide range of individual examiner perspectives within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Practitioners should prepare for 6 different sets of examination styles.
The prosecution spans 3 distinct art units, which is exactly 3 compared to the 6 distinct examiners involved. This indicates that while the examiners are different, they are grouped within a smaller number of technical divisions at the office. NGUYEN, THONG Q is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing a small portion of the 6 pending office actions total. Since the busiest examiner only has 1 pending office action, the portfolio is characterized by a complete lack of examiner concentration, requiring the applicant to navigate 6 different sets of examiner expectations across the 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 | 76.1% | +10.5% |
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.2% | +16.7% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.1% | +20.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621857 | OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM | LEI, JIE | 12d |
| 18607861 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTOUR SHAPE MEASURING SYSTEM | LAU, TUNG S | — |
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 5 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 | — |
| 18607861 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTOUR SHAPE MEASURING SYSTEM | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18418743 | IMAGING LENS | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 18607861 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTOUR SHAPE MEASURING SYSTEM | LAU, TUNG S | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18418743 | IMAGING LENS | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
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