Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coherent Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical focus for these filings. This concentration allows for a streamlined approach to addressing the technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split. The use of 1 distinct art unit implies that the current filings are being evaluated against a consistent set of technical standards. Practitioners should monitor both of the 2 pending office actions for overlapping examiner feedback within the 1 distinct art unit.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
| SHAT, ATEF ARAFAT | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660536 | HYBRID LASER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRYING BATTERY ELECTRODE COATING | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18660536 | HYBRID LASER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRYING BATTERY ELECTRODE COATING | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18492391 | LASER WELDING A STACK OF METAL FOILS TO A METAL SUBSTRATE | SHAT, ATEF ARAFAT | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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