Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anello Photonics, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These are assigned to 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit. LYONS, MICHAEL A is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This 1 busiest examiner pending action is one of the 2 pending office actions for the company. The 1 distinct art unit shows that both 2 distinct examiners are working within the same technical group. This concentrates the technical review while splitting the workload between 2 distinct examiners.
LYONS, MICHAEL A handles 1 busiest examiner pending action within this single unit. Practitioners must coordinate between 2 distinct examiners who are operating in the same 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests a focused technical scope for the 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYONS, MICHAEL A | 1 | 86.5% | +9.9% |
| RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 1 | 88.1% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19192138 | PORTABLE OPTICAL GYROSCOPE AND COMPASS UNIT | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389663 | INTEGRATED PHOTONICS CHIP WITH ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIAL BASED WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389663 | INTEGRATED PHOTONICS CHIP WITH ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIAL BASED WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19192138 | PORTABLE OPTICAL GYROSCOPE AND COMPASS UNIT | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 2877 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 18389663 | INTEGRATED PHOTONICS CHIP WITH ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIAL BASED WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAnello Photonics, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Michael A Lyons has the most, with 1 of Anello Photonics, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
