Technology area: Computing & Software
25 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co. Ltd. has 26 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The workload is distributed across 5 examiners and 3 art units, so portfolio management requires both matter-level tracking and art-unit coordination.
STCLAIR, ANDREW D is the busiest examiner, with 21 pending matters. That concentration makes this examiner the principal operational focus for docket review, response sequencing, and identification of recurring prosecution issues.
The difference between the overall pending workload and the matters assigned to the busiest examiner shows that additional examiners also require active oversight. The 3 art-unit assignments provide a useful structure for grouping related issues, while the 5-examiner distribution calls for consistent claim and disclosure positions across matters.
Practitioners should prioritize the STCLAIR, ANDREW D docket while preserving separate analyses for matters outside that assignment. Examiner-specific patterns can inform strategy, but the multi-art-unit profile supports checking that any amendment approach remains appropriate across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 9 (36%) |
| §102 only | 5 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 21 | 60.1% | +25.6% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 54.3% | +20.7% |
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.9% | +37.7% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.2% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17525993 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 614d overdue |
| 17588277 | Camera Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 575d overdue |
| 17641453 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 525d overdue |
| 17763668 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 511d overdue |
| 17712081 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 491d overdue |
| 17641443 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 489d overdue |
| 17524757 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 488d overdue |
| 17826213 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 449d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17527190 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS GROUP INCLUDING SIX LENSES OF -+--+- REFRACTIVE POWERS | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 614d overdue |
| 17525993 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 614d overdue |
| 17588277 | Camera Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 575d overdue |
| 17577047 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 567d overdue |
| 17669433 | Optical Imaging System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 566d overdue |
| 17641108 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 539d overdue |
| 17641453 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 525d overdue |
| 17553834 | Optical Imaging System, Recognition Module and Electronic Device | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 520d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 21 |
| 2872 | 3 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982440 | OPTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY LENS ASSEMBLY | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18981760 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18979096 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18960175 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 17829399 | Optical Imaging Camera Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 393d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
| 17826213 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 449d overdue | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17749166 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 437d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17772514 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 435d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
| 17723509 | Optical Imaging Lens Group | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 512d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2022 |
| 17718353 | Optical Imaging System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 408d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
| 17718352 | Optical Imaging System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 380d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
| 17712081 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 491d overdue | Pending | Apr 02, 2022 |
| 17763668 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 511d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
| 17763670 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 455d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
| 17691143 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 489d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
| 17641453 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 525d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
| 17641443 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 489d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
| 17641108 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 539d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
| 17669433 | Optical Imaging System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 566d overdue | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
| 17588277 | Camera Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 575d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2022 |
| 17577047 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 567d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2022 |
| 17553834 | Optical Imaging System, Recognition Module and Electronic Device | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 520d overdue | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 17527190 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS GROUP INCLUDING SIX LENSES OF -+--+- REFRACTIVE POWERS | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 614d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2021 |
| 17525993 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 614d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2021 |
| 17524757 | Optical Imaging Lens Assembly | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 488d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialZhejiang Sunny Optics Co. Ltd. has 25 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Andrew D Stclair has the most, with 21 of Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
