Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Current Lighting Solutions LLC manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action.
With 3 pending office actions split among different examiners, the company's prosecution efforts are broadly distributed across the patent office. This diversification means that the portfolio's progress is not reliant on a single examiner's discretion. Practitioners should monitor the distinct requirements of all 3 art units to ensure a cohesive strategy across the active applications. This variety in examiners and art units provides the company with multiple perspectives on their semiconductor and optics innovations, potentially reducing the impact of any specific examiner's procedural preferences.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.0% | +57.3% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 1 | 67.9% | +45.0% |
| LAM, TUAN THIEU | 1 | 77.7% | +13.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787994 | LIGHTING APPARATUS DRIVER | LAM, TUAN THIEU | 29d |
| 18013384 | LIGHT DISINFECTION SYSTEM CONTROL SYSTEMS | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| 17914881 | LIGHTING FIXTURE | CHOI, JAMES J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787994 | LIGHTING APPARATUS DRIVER | LAM, TUAN THIEU | 29d |
| 18013384 | LIGHT DISINFECTION SYSTEM CONTROL SYSTEMS | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| 17914881 | LIGHTING FIXTURE | CHOI, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18013384 | LIGHT DISINFECTION SYSTEM CONTROL SYSTEMS | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17914881 | LIGHTING FIXTURE | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17787994 | LIGHTING APPARATUS DRIVER | LAM, TUAN THIEU | 2842 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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