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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Changchun Institute Of Optics Fine Mechanics And Physics Chinese Academy Of Sciences is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This work is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a very specific focus for their current intellectual property efforts. This narrow scope simplifies the management of their active patent application. The concentration of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized research focus within the optics and physics sector.
NELSON, HUNTER JARED is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently in their docket. As this 1 action is the only one pending, the examiner's perspective on the technical merits of the case will be the deciding factor for the portfolio's progress. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company is focusing its efforts on the specific standards of that unit. This centralized approach allows the company to dedicate all its resources to advancing the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 38.7% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179048 | SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER BASED ON A TRIPLE-LATTICE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18179048 | SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER BASED ON A TRIPLE-LATTICE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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