Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Franklin & Associates International Inc has 7 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Its career record includes 420 applications, providing substantial historical activity alongside the current docket.
The firm’s resolved allowance rate is 83.47%, with an average of 2.41 office actions per allowance. Together, these measures show both the outcome rate for resolved matters and the recorded prosecution effort associated with allowances.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
| FERNANDES, ERROL V | 1 | 85.5% | +10.8% |
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
| DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 1 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1 | 37.5% | +76.2% |
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 65.0% | +19.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764470 | Display Panel and Manufacturing Method Thereof | FERNANDES, ERROL V | — |
| 18434831 | Display Panel, Preparation Method and Display Apparatus | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656524 | FALSE EYELASH APPARATUS AND METHODS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 89d overdue |
| 18905094 | LUGGAGE SMART DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CUMAR, NATHAN | 16d overdue |
| 18261256 | A HIGH TENACITY REGENERATED CELLULOSIC FIBER | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 5d overdue |
| 18595348 | AEROSOL CONTAINMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656524 | FALSE EYELASH APPARATUS AND METHODS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 89d overdue |
| 18905094 | LUGGAGE SMART DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CUMAR, NATHAN | 16d overdue |
| 18261256 | A HIGH TENACITY REGENERATED CELLULOSIC FIBER | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 5d overdue |
| 17610693 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 8d |
| 18764470 | Display Panel and Manufacturing Method Thereof | FERNANDES, ERROL V | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| HKC | 2 |
| Package, Inc. | 1 |
| Hal J HANSEN | 1 |
| Airsolve LLC | 1 |
| Nanollose | 1 |
| JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905094 | LUGGAGE SMART DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | Package, Inc. | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18764470 | Display Panel and Manufacturing Method Thereof | HKC Corporation Limited | FERNANDES, ERROL V | 2893 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18656524 | FALSE EYELASH APPARATUS AND METHODS | Hal J Hansen | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18595348 | AEROSOL CONTAINMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Airsolve LLC | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18434831 | Display Panel, Preparation Method and Display Apparatus | HKC Corporation Limited | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18261256 | A HIGH TENACITY REGENERATED CELLULOSIC FIBER | Nanollose Limited | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1693 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 17610693 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | Jiangxi Jingchao Optical Co., Ltd. | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Nov 11, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial83.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Franklin & Associates International Inc. were allowed, across 420 applications in USPTO records.
2.41 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 7 examiners in 7 art units.
