Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
104 pending office actions • 44 art units • 92 examiners • 0 of 104 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 86 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ams-osram AG is managing 102 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These cases are distributed among 93 distinct examiners, indicating that the company faces a wide array of individual perspectives at the patent office. The workload is further spread across 29 distinct art units, showing a significant level of technical diversity for the 102 pending actions. EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, currently handling 3 pending office actions.
The 3 pending office actions under EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH represent only a small fraction of the 102 total pending actions, suggesting that no single examiner has an outsized influence on the portfolio. With 93 distinct examiners involved, the vast majority of examiners are handling only a single case. The 29 distinct art units indicate that the company's semiconductor and optics innovations are being reviewed by many different specialized groups. This broad distribution across 93 distinct examiners and 29 distinct art units requires a highly adaptable prosecution strategy to maintain consistency across the 102 pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 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. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (2%) |
| §103 only | 32 (31%) |
| §102 only | 6 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 62 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIU, XINNING | 3 | 82.6% | +4.8% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 3 | 70.4% | +46.0% |
| KING, JOSHUA | 3 | 65.0% | +27.3% |
| PATEL, SANJIV D | 2 | 78.2% | +3.7% |
| RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 2 | 51.9% | +26.4% |
| AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2 | 86.8% | +9.5% |
| JONES, ERIC W | 2 | 62.2% | +17.3% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2 | 38.7% | +24.5% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 2 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
| LEE JR, KENNETH B | 1 | 85.7% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19475690 | PROCESSING DEVICE, EYE TRACKING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD | LEE JR, KENNETH B | — |
| 18841249 | OPTOELECTRONIC LIGHTING DEVICE AND METHOD | AHMADI, MOHSEN | — |
| 18698416 | OPTOELECTRONIC CONVERTER ELEMENT, OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT | NIU, XINNING | — |
| 18686032 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE LASER CHIP, AND LASER CHIP | NIU, XINNING | — |
| 18563049 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND COMPONENT | NIU, XINNING | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797906 | LIGHT PIXEL PROJECTION MODULE | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 150d overdue |
| 18727694 | ELECTRIC CIRCUITRY FOR BASELINE RESTORATION | LEE, SHUN K | 32d overdue |
| 18562249 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 7d |
| 18260939 | RADIATION-EMITTING DEVICE, MEASURING SYSTEM COMPRISING THE RADIATION-EMITTING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING THE MEASURING SYSTEM | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 12d |
| 18038656 | OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE SEGMENT OF AN OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ARRANGEMENT OF AT LEAST TWO OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 13d |
| 18005533 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPONENT, AND OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT | FAHMY, WAEL M | 27d |
| 18074216 | CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 29d |
| 17793134 | DISPLAY TRANSMISSION OPTIMIZATION | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | 56d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262794 | LASER DIODE ASSEMBLY, LIGHTING UNIT AND LASER PROJECTION DEVICE | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 5d overdue |
| 17875895 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 7d |
| 18253185 | Radiation-Emitting Laser Diode, Method for Choosing Refractive Indices of a Waveguide Layer Sequence for a Radiation-Emitting Laser Diode and Method for Producing a Radiation-Emitting Laser Diode | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 18730675 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PLURALITY OF OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS, AND OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP | JONES, ERIC W | — |
| 18696484 | OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS OR OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES | JONES, ERIC W | — |
| 18690295 | OPTOELECTRONIC LIGHTING DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| 18579587 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PLURALITY OF SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODES | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | — |
| 18005468 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT AND LIDAR SYSTEM | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 15 |
| 3645 | 12 |
| 2898 | 9 |
| 2893 | 6 |
| 2897 | 5 |
| 2625 | 4 |
| 2891 | 4 |
| 2896 | 3 |
| 2812 | 3 |
| 2639 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19475690 | PROCESSING DEVICE, EYE TRACKING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD | LEE JR, KENNETH B | 2625 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19474188 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE SENSOR DEVICE FOR SENSING A POSITION OF AN OBJECT TOUCH | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 18998169 | VITAL SIGN MONITORING DEVICE | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18873594 | DISPLAY WITH INTEGRATED SENSORS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED THERETO | OKEBATO, SAHLU | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18869577 | ILLUMINATION ADAPTING METHOD AND PICTURE RECORDING ARRANGEMENT | HANNETT, JAMES M | 2639 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18865960 | 3D RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND PICTURE RECORDING ARRANGEMENT | LAM, CHAK FUNG ANTHONY | 2612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18860944 | PROXIMITY SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING A PROXIMITY SENSOR SYSTEM | SKAIST, AVI T. | 3674 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18736268 | VITAL SIGN MONITOR, METHOD FOR OPERATING A VITAL SIGN MONITOR, AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A VITAL SIGN MONITOR | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18276885 | LATERAL FLOW TEST DEVICE | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1678 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17907328 | OPTICAL MODULE | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 19118362 | DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER, CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT, DISCRIMINATOR AND PHOTON COUNTING SYSTEM | JEANGLAUDE, JEAN BRUNER | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19117131 | OPTICAL PROXIMITY SENSOR | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2691 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19107107 | FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING A LIDAR SYSTEM | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18993075 | SENSOR MODULE FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONDUCTING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18881990 | SENSOR MODULE FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONDUCTING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18870734 | PICTURE RECORDING ARRANGEMENT, LIGHT SOURCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PICTURE RECORDING ARRANGEMENT | HENN, TIMOTHY J | 2639 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18868662 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY WITH LENSLESS IMAGING CAPABILITY AND IMAGING SYSTEM | ADAMS, EILEEN M | 2481 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18727694 | ELECTRIC CIRCUITRY FOR BASELINE RESTORATION | LEE, SHUN K | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18691507 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR PROXIMITY SENSING OR ABSOLUTE DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18577303 | MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICE AND MICRO-FLUIDIC MEASURING ARRANGEMENT | HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18576517 | FLEX FOIL, MICRO-FLUIDIC CARTRIDGE AND MICRO-FLUIDIC ASSEMBLY | FISHER, BRITTANY I | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18285181 | OPTICAL PROXIMITY SENSOR | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18267366 | PROXIMITY SENSOR | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18044116 | PROXIMITY SENSING | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18012140 | APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE PRESENCE OR CONCENTRATION OF TARGET MOLECULES | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 2800 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17875895 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17793134 | DISPLAY TRANSMISSION OPTIMIZATION | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
| 17788454 | A SENSING SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
| 18994071 | PROJECTION SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | YE, LIN | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18877905 | ORGANIC ANTI-REFLECTIVE COATING FOR VISIBLE AND IR OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR EMISSION EFFICIENCY | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18847181 | OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18846663 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A PLURALITY OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS | LAU, EDMOND C | 2871 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18841249 | OPTOELECTRONIC LIGHTING DEVICE AND METHOD | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2896 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18839951 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | VU, VU A | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18838157 | MICRO SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | DEMISSIE, BERHANU GELETA | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18834551 | DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING AND METHOD | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 2893 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18834590 | OPTOELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND METHOD | KIM, TONG-HO | 2811 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18834575 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT AND SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT | MAZUMDER, DIDARUL A | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18833836 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT, CONVERSION ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2896 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18832434 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ARRAY OF LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENTS AND DISPLAY | CHEN, DAVID Z | 2815 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18730675 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PLURALITY OF OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS, AND OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP | JONES, ERIC W | 2892 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18727934 | METHOD OF PROCESSING AN OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE | TAN, DAVE | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18722494 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHIU, TSZ K | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18717415 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF A SUBSTANCE AND DETECTOR ARRANGMENT | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18716880 | OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD A | 2898 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18716114 | SOLDER BONDING ON AuSn BASIS WITH LOW BONDING TEMPERATURE | ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K | 2891 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18714913 | EPITAXIALLY GROWN CONVERTER LAYER, OPTOELECTRONIC ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | HETHERINGTON, AUBRIE IRENE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18674337 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | STEWART, ROBERT LINCOLN | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18712735 | RADIATION-EMITTING COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A RADIATION-EMITTING COMPONENT | ADROVEL, WILLIAM | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18712335 | OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, LIDAR MODULE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A LIDAR MODULE | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAms-osram AG has 104 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 44 art units and 92 examiners.
Xinning Niu has the most, with 3 of Ams-osram AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.