Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
C Light Technologies Inc. operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company's portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly specific technical and administrative focus for the current pending workload. Practitioners should note that this concentration allows for a very direct engagement with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. In the specialized field of Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, having a single examiner and a single art unit involved simplifies the prosecution landscape. The company's immediate success in securing patent rights depends entirely on the interactions with this one examiner. There are no other pending actions or examiners to provide a broader context for the company's current filings.
Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L, as there are no other examiners or administrative groups currently influencing the portfolio. The presence of a single point of contact allows for a very targeted legal strategy without the need to manage conflicting requirements. Success for the pending office action will be determined by how well the company navigates this examiner's feedback.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723333 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMAGING A SUBJECT’S RETINA AND ANALYZING OF RETINAL IMAGES | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723333 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMAGING A SUBJECT’S RETINA AND ANALYZING OF RETINAL IMAGES | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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