Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
AMS-OSRAM AG maintains 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a lack of examiner overlap in the current prosecution pipeline. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate different sets of examiner preferences simultaneously.
The busiest examiner, MENEFEE, JAMES A, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This workload is part of the total 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for the specific procedural nuances of each unit to ensure consistent outcomes across the active applications.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 78.9% | +12.1% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 54.5% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546299 | Meta-optics Integrated on VCSELs | MENEFEE, JAMES 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546299 | Meta-optics Integrated on VCSELs | MENEFEE, JAMES A | — |
| 17781968 | TIME OF FLIGHT SENSING METHOD | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546299 | Meta-optics Integrated on VCSELs | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 17781968 | TIME OF FLIGHT SENSING METHOD | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
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