Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
50% of docket
2
Semiconductors
50% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 1 74.4% +11.7%
SINGH, AMNEET 1 79.2% +7.4%
HAGAN, SEAN P 1 38.7% +31.0%
GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 1 51.3% +26.4%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18205340 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING EDGE EMITTING LASERS BY CLEAVING A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER ALONG ONE OR MORE STREETS FORMED ON THE WAFER HAGAN, SEAN P 30d overdue
17500248 RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASER WITH DIELECTRIC CURRENT CONFINEMENT GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 16d overdue
18792054 LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA USING A PORTABLE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS MODULE BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2828 2
2632 1
2633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18792054 LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA USING A PORTABLE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS MODULE BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 2632 Other Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 01, 2024
18437594 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA SINGH, AMNEET 2633 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18205340 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING EDGE EMITTING LASERS BY CLEAVING A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER ALONG ONE OR MORE STREETS FORMED ON THE WAFER HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
17500248 RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASER WITH DIELECTRIC CURRENT CONFINEMENT GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2021

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