Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Chen Yoshimura LLP

10 pending office actions • 9 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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 (70%)
1
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only2 (20%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
20% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GEROLEO, FRANCIS 1 73.1% +19.1%
CHOI, WILLIAM C 1 92.6% +4.1%
HUANG, WEN 1 81.6% +23.5%
YU, YUECHUAN 1 65.3% +20.0%
KIM, SAMUEL CHONG 1 48.7% +71.9%
SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD 1 52.7% +39.1%
ABBAS, SYED JARAR 1
TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1 55.4% +46.6%
LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN 1 64.9% +33.6%
PHAM, THOMAS T 1 51.7% +16.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18735677 OPTICAL IMAGING LENS CHOI, WILLIAM C 63d
18631824 OPTICAL IMAGING LENS HUANG, WEN 71d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19064440 HEAD WEARABLE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING VISUAL ACUITY GEROLEO, FRANCIS 81d overdue
17586437 SOI WAFER AND METHOD OF FINAL PROCESSING THE SAME PHAM, THOMAS T 51d overdue
18047515 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING NATIVE VALVE LEAFLETS IN HUMAN HEART LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN 18d overdue
18465927 METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDER BASED ON EEG SIGNAL AND DEVICE OF THE SAME KIM, SAMUEL CHONG 4d overdue
18027840 METHOD FOR PREPARING SOLID FORMULATION OF PIMAVANSERIN TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 21d
18532964 EPITAXY SUSCEPTOR, EPITAXY GROWTH APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE YU, YUECHUAN 33d
18631824 OPTICAL IMAGING LENS HUANG, WEN 71d
18315276 METHOD OF FABRICATING A SHADE PANEL SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28722
36191
17181
37911
36341
16741
16151
37741
17131

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19064440 HEAD WEARABLE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING VISUAL ACUITY Oomii Inc. GEROLEO, FRANCIS 3619 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2025
18735677 OPTICAL IMAGING LENS Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. CHOI, WILLIAM C 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18631824 OPTICAL IMAGING LENS Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. HUANG, WEN 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Apr 10, 2024
18532964 EPITAXY SUSCEPTOR, EPITAXY GROWTH APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Zing Semiconductor Corporation YU, YUECHUAN 1718 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18465927 METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDER BASED ON EEG SIGNAL AND DEVICE OF THE SAME National Taiwan University KIM, SAMUEL CHONG 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
18315276 METHOD OF FABRICATING A SHADE PANEL Teh Yor Co., Ltd. SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD 3634 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 10, 2023
18140535 METHOD AND COMPOSITION OF TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION Ainos Inc. ABBAS, SYED JARAR 1674 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18027840 METHOD FOR PREPARING SOLID FORMULATION OF PIMAVANSERIN Nanjing Kaiwang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1615 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18047515 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING NATIVE VALVE LEAFLETS IN HUMAN HEART Sinomed Cardiovita Technology Inc. LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17586437 SOI WAFER AND METHOD OF FINAL PROCESSING THE SAME Shanghai Institute Of Microsystem And Information Technology, Chinese Academy Of Sciences PHAM, THOMAS T 1713 §112 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2022

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