Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
AFL Telecommunications LLC has 8 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are concentrated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting a focused technical scope for their current filings. The company deals with 7 distinct examiners, meaning that almost every pending action is being handled by a different person.
Ryan A. Lepisto is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 2 pending office actions. With only 8 total actions and 7 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution experience is highly individual to each application. The concentration in 3 distinct art units may provide some consistency in the technical examination environment despite the variety of examiners. Practitioners should look for commonalities in how these 3 art units handle similar technologies to streamline their prosecution efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 5 (56%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2 | 75.5% | +13.0% |
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.9% | +11.6% |
| STOCK JR, GORDON J | 1 | 81.5% | +17.5% |
| HARTMANN, GARY S | 1 | 72.7% | +18.9% |
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.2% | +17.1% |
| FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 1 | 71.6% | +27.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19388703 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
| 18893278 | FIBER OPTIC LOSS AND LENGTH TEST SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH EMBEDDED FIBER BRAGS SYSTEMS | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720016 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS RACK ASSEMBLY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS MODULES | LEPISTO, RYAN 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182581 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOSS MEASUREMENT AND POLARITY DETECTION OF MULTI-FIBER CONNECTORS AND CABLES | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 10d overdue |
| 18422419 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE | JORDAN, ANDREW | 34d |
| 19278369 | FOLDABLE AND/OR COLLAPSIBLE PLASTIC/COMPOSITE UTILITY ENCLOSURE | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18893278 | FIBER OPTIC LOSS AND LENGTH TEST SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH EMBEDDED FIBER BRAGS SYSTEMS | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 18844134 | COVER | HARTMANN, GARY S | — |
| 18805741 | BUTT CLOSURES AND ORGANIZER ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — |
| 18638934 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE AND PANEL | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 3 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19388703 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2874 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19278369 | FOLDABLE AND/OR COLLAPSIBLE PLASTIC/COMPOSITE UTILITY ENCLOSURE | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3733 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 18893278 | FIBER OPTIC LOSS AND LENGTH TEST SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH EMBEDDED FIBER BRAGS SYSTEMS | STOCK JR, GORDON J | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18844134 | COVER | HARTMANN, GARY S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18805741 | BUTT CLOSURES AND ORGANIZER ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18720016 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS RACK ASSEMBLY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS MODULES | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18638934 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE AND PANEL | PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18422419 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE | JORDAN, ANDREW | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18182581 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOSS MEASUREMENT AND POLARITY DETECTION OF MULTI-FIBER CONNECTORS AND CABLES | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
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