Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Adige S P A currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 actions constitute the company's current active workload in this sector. The focus on semiconductors indicates a specific technological priority for the company's research and development efforts.
The workload is distributed among 2 distinct examiners. This means each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual, providing two separate perspectives on the company's filings. Lyons, Michael A is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action, which is half of the total workload.
The actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions cover different technical sub-sectors within the broader Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The lack of art unit overlap means that the prosecution team must navigate two different sets of technical standards and prior art databases.
With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions, there is no consolidation in the portfolio. Each case requires a unique strategy tailored to the specific examiner, such as Lyons, Michael A, and their respective art unit. Practitioners should treat these 2 actions as entirely separate efforts with no shared examiner or art unit trends to leverage.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYONS, MICHAEL A | 1 | 86.5% | +9.9% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19010325 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCAL POSITION OF AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL ELEMENT IN A MACHINE FOR LASER PROCESSING OF A MATERIAL, USING LOW-COHERENCE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781868 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND CONTROLLING THE SEPARATION DISTANCE BETWEEN A WORKING HEAD OF A LASER PROCESSING MACHINE AND THE SURFACE OF AN OBJECT BEING PROCESSED BY MEANS OF LOW COHERENCE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19010325 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCAL POSITION OF AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL ELEMENT IN A MACHINE FOR LASER PROCESSING OF A MATERIAL, USING LOW-COHERENCE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 17781868 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND CONTROLLING THE SEPARATION DISTANCE BETWEEN A WORKING HEAD OF A LASER PROCESSING MACHINE AND THE SURFACE OF AN OBJECT BEING PROCESSED BY MEANS OF LOW COHERENCE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAdige S P A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michael A Lyons has the most, with 1 of Adige S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
