Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19237877 | DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF VISIBILITY IMPAIRMENTS IN HEADS-UP DISPLAYS | June 2025 | December 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19169144 | HYBRID MOTION STABILISATION FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAYS | April 2025 | January 2026 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19065913 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE | February 2025 | May 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19054908 | OPTICAL COHERENCE COMPUTATION APPARATUS AND AN ERROR CORRECTION METHOD THEREOF | February 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19045050 | NEAR-EYE DISPLAY WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND NEAR-EYE DISPLAY APPARATUS | February 2025 | August 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18878954 | IMAGE PROJECTOR WITH POLARIZING CATADIOPTRIC COLLIMATOR | December 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18767629 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING INTO A VEHICLE VIRTUAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS USING FIELD EVOLVING CAVITIES AND CURVED COMPONENTS | July 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18748372 | Method of fabricating a light-guide optical element | June 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18661321 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR ILLUMINATING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS | May 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18651608 | LIGHT-MODULATING ELECTROPHORETIC DEVICE | April 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18626442 | ROTATIONAL BALL-GUIDED VOICE COIL MOTOR | April 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18626489 | PLANAR MULTI LAYERED THIN COMBINER | April 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18624141 | AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SYSTEM THEREFOR | April 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18590788 | SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXED DIFFRACTIVE LENS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD VIA PHASE CORRECTION | February 2024 | August 2025 | Abandon | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18424728 | EYEGLASSES | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18406672 | OPTICAL SYSTEM | January 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18407284 | Heads-Up Display and Coating Therefor | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18402818 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18401665 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18575647 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SUPER-RESOLUTION LENS BASED ON METAL-DIELECTRIC STRIP ARRAY, AND USING METHOD OF SUPER-RESOLUTION LENS | December 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18543068 | FREQUENCY-DOMAIN INTERFEROMETRIC BASED IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | December 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18543376 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING AN IMAGE ON AN OBSERVATION FIELD USING A DIFFRACTION-INFLUENCED WAVEGUIDE | December 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18539167 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AIRY LIGHT NEEDLE WITH LONG DEPTH OF FOCUS AND HIGH ASPECT RATIO | December 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18515795 | ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES | November 2023 | February 2026 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18490196 | LENS MODULE | October 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18484367 | SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXED DIFFRACTIVE LENS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD VIA PHASE CORRECTION | October 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18554229 | AR SYSTEM WITH HYBRID DISPLAY | October 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18482576 | AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING FOCUS REGION ACCORDING TO DIRECTION OF USER'S VIEW AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAME | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18376898 | WAVEGUIDE FOR TRANSMITTING LIGHT | October 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18374451 | Control of reflections of a display device | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18552629 | PUPIL EXPANDER INTEGRITY | September 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18367614 | SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR, LIGHT MODULATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR | September 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18459310 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL METASURFACE BEAM FORMING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | August 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231282 | METHODS OF FABRICATION OF OPTICAL APERTURE MULTIPLIERS HAVING RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE | August 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18275567 | HIGH FIDELITY STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF QUANTUM INFORMATION IN A WARM ATOMIC VAPOR CELL DEVICE | August 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18223772 | OPTICAL APPARATUSES FOR ENHANCING SCOTOPIC VISION | July 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18216013 | SPECTACLE LENS | June 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18334137 | LIGHT PROJECTOR | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18266046 | DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE | June 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18203968 | LIGHT-MODULATING ELECTROPHORETIC DEVICE | May 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18325986 | AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SYSTEM THEREFOR | May 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18319928 | VISION TRAINING DEVICE WITH REFRACTIVE INDEX-ADJUSTABLE LENS | May 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196324 | PHASE-SHIFTED, CHIRPED VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS | May 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18309814 | ROTATIONAL BALL-GUIDED VOICE COIL MOTOR | April 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18134874 | Wearable Electro-Optical Device using Electrochromic Layer | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18298699 | LENS MOVING APPARATUS, AND CAMERA MODULE AND PORTABLE DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18298300 | Laser Protection Eyewear Lenses | April 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18182747 | LENS MODULE | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18025887 | Electrically-reconfigurable high quality factor metasurfaces for dynamic wavefront shaping | March 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18163530 | Heads-Up Display and Coating Therefor | February 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160900 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR ILLUMINATING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS | January 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18093495 | OPTICAL SYSTEM | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18150785 | EYEGLASSES | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18011212 | METHODS OF FABRICATION OF OPTICAL APERTURE MULTIPLIERS HAVING RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE | December 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18080076 | IR REFLECTIVE MULTILAYER OPTICAL FILMS | December 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18001134 | SPECTRAL SPLITTER DEVICE | December 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18056678 | DEFORMABLE MEMBRANE FOR SPECKLE MITIGATION | November 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17972816 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A METALLIC GRATING | October 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17919017 | MULTIPLEXED HOLOGRAM INTERFERENCE EXPOSURE SYSTEM | October 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17956545 | LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT REFLECTION FILM, WINDSHIELD GLASS, AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM | September 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935875 | LENS, OCULAR OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS | September 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17901462 | VIEWING ANGLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE | September 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17898498 | OPTICAL APPARATUS | August 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17886398 | LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEM | August 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17798228 | Concave Diffraction Grating and Optical Device | August 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17760255 | IMAGING LENS | August 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17797475 | OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR HUD SYSTEMS | August 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17880068 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS | August 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17877413 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | July 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17876762 | VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE | July 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17874681 | VIBRATION TYPE ACTUATOR, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17873420 | OPTICAL RETARDER SEGMENTS | July 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17867947 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND SPATIAL INPUT DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17793677 | MANUALLY OPERATED RING DRIVE DEVICE | July 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17866271 | SMALL, HIGH POWER OPTICAL ISOLATOR | July 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17810429 | BARRICADE WITH REFLECTIVE STRIPS | July 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17789709 | NEAR-EYE DISPLAY DEVICE | June 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17850718 | DIFFRACTIVE IMAGE COMBINER, DISPLAY DEVICE MODULE, AND HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE | June 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17845725 | SPECTACLE LENS | June 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17842253 | MULTI-PERSPECTIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOATING IMAGE DISPLAY WITH POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17806518 | DISPLAY DEVICE | June 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17838019 | DUAL CONFIGURATION CONTACT LENSES | June 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17836511 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS, AND CAMERA MODULE AND OPTICAL DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827541 | VISUAL EFFECT SYSTEM INCLUDING PERSPECTIVE-CORRECT AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC RETROREFLECTIVE PROJECTION | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826913 | OPTICAL DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME, AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING LENGTH OF OPTICAL PATH | May 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17824904 | ABSORPTION TYPE NEAR INFRARED FILTER | May 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17745657 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADJUSTING AN OPTICAL BEAM TRAJECTORY | May 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17741201 | MICROSCOPE MODULE BLOCK | May 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17740667 | OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING MECHANISM | May 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17737102 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY, IMAGING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | May 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17771727 | DISPLAY DEVICE | April 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727663 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY | April 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17721542 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY AND PHOTOGRAPHING MODULE | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17722070 | OPTICAL LENS SYSTEM, CAMERA AND TERMINAL | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17720058 | LOW-LOSS OPTICAL MATERIALS AND PROCESSES | April 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17719264 | OPTICAL PULSE STRETCHER | April 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716257 | Digital Holography Microscope (DHM), and Inspection Method and Semiconductor Manufacturing Method Using the DHM | April 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17709658 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS | March 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17708667 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17764906 | POLARIZER PROTECTIVE FILM, POLARIZATION PLATE COMPRISING SAME, AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME | March 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner GAGNON, GRANT A.
With a 100.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.
In this dataset, 55.6% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner GAGNON, GRANT A works in Art Unit 2872 and has examined 479 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 89.6%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 29 months.
Examiner GAGNON, GRANT A's allowance rate of 89.6% places them in the 72% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by GAGNON, GRANT A receive 1.15 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 13% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by GAGNON, GRANT A is 29 months. This places the examiner in the 65% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by GAGNON, GRANT A. This interview benefit is in the 28% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 43.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 94% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 29.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 166.7% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 91% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. Before filing a full appeal brief, strongly consider requesting a PAC. The PAC provides an opportunity for the examiner and supervisory personnel to reconsider the rejection before the case proceeds to the PTAB.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 90.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 83% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 77.8% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 78.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 83% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 27% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments less often than average. You may need to make most claim amendments yourself.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 33% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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