Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
AMS-OSRAM AG is focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a singular point of prosecution. This concentration allows the company to dedicate its legal resources to a single examination process rather than managing multiple simultaneous reviews.
The matter is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the technical innovations are being evaluated within a specific group. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific examination practices of this 1 unit. Understanding the specific internal policies of the department is critical for success in moving the application toward allowance.
CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the pending office action. The busiest examiner pending count is 1, confirming that this individual is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's pending work. The outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on this specific interaction. Practitioners should analyze the historical patterns of the examiner to prepare an effective response.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, DON J | 1 | 83.9% | +5.1% |
| BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 1 | 83.8% | +11.8% |
| BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 1 | 90.0% | +16.7% |
| ZHANG, YUANDA | 1 | 84.2% | +11.8% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
| HATFIELD, MARSHALL MU-NUO | 1 | 92.7% | +4.4% |
| NEGRON, ISMAEL | 1 | 73.5% | +15.1% |
| DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | 1 | 80.8% | +1.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851699 | CALIBRATION OF DEPTH MAP GENERATING SYSTEM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278500 | PINNED PHOTODIODE PIXEL | HATFIELD, MARSHALL MU-NUO | 23d |
| 19136150 | LIGHT SOURCE ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVED SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENTS OF AMBIENT LIGHT AND COLOR SENSORS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SUCH A LIGHT SOURCE ARRANGEMENT | WILLIAMS, DON J | — |
| 18998129 | DUAL SELF-MIXING INTERFEROMETRY DEVICE AND METHOD | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — |
| 18682213 | LASER COMPONENT AND LASER DEVICE | ZHANG, YUANDA | — |
| 18561780 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| 18257599 | ILLUMINATION MODULE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | — |
| 18256910 | WAFER-LEVEL MANUFACTURE OF OPTICAL PACKAGES | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998129 | DUAL SELF-MIXING INTERFEROMETRY DEVICE AND METHOD | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — |
| 18851699 | CALIBRATION OF DEPTH MAP GENERATING SYSTEM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | — |
| 18682213 | LASER COMPONENT AND LASER DEVICE | ZHANG, YUANDA | — |
| 18561780 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| 18257599 | ILLUMINATION MODULE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19136150 | LIGHT SOURCE ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVED SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENTS OF AMBIENT LIGHT AND COLOR SENSORS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SUCH A LIGHT SOURCE ARRANGEMENT | WILLIAMS, DON J | 2878 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 18998129 | DUAL SELF-MIXING INTERFEROMETRY DEVICE AND METHOD | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18851699 | CALIBRATION OF DEPTH MAP GENERATING SYSTEM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18682213 | LASER COMPONENT AND LASER DEVICE | ZHANG, YUANDA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18561780 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18278500 | PINNED PHOTODIODE PIXEL | HATFIELD, MARSHALL MU-NUO | 2897 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18257599 | ILLUMINATION MODULE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18256910 | WAFER-LEVEL MANUFACTURE OF OPTICAL PACKAGES | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | 2818 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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