Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Electro Scientific Industries Inc.

7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§102 only1 (14%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 1 54.3% +26.8%
CHOU, JIMMY 1 71.3% +15.5%
TALLMAN, ROBERT E 1 81.7% +14.7%
TRAN, TIFFANY T 1 57.0% +56.6%
WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA 1 60.5% +38.5%
WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 1 50.4% +49.8%
ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL 1 64.7% +40.9%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18253997 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ACOUSTO- OPTICAL DEFLECTORS TALLMAN, ROBERT E 44d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18253997 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ACOUSTO- OPTICAL DEFLECTORS TALLMAN, ROBERT E 44d overdue
17799994 LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS FACILITATING DIRECTED INSPECTION OF LASER-PROCESSED WORKPIECES AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 5d overdue
17326664 PHASED ARRAY STEERING FOR LASER BEAM POSITIONING SYSTEMS ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL 2d overdue
18253838 LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF PROCESSING WORKPIECES USING THE SAME TRAN, TIFFANY T 14d
18252059 OPTICAL RELAY SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA 15d
18663649 LASER-PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF PROCESSING WORKPIECES USING THE SAME CHOU, JIMMY 26d
18735240 LASER PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAM DITHERING AND SKIVING ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3761 6
2872 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18735240 LASER PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAM DITHERING AND SKIVING ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 3761 §102 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18663649 LASER-PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF PROCESSING WORKPIECES USING THE SAME CHOU, JIMMY 3761 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending May 14, 2024
18253997 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ACOUSTO- OPTICAL DEFLECTORS TALLMAN, ROBERT E 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 23, 2023
18253838 LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF PROCESSING WORKPIECES USING THE SAME TRAN, TIFFANY T 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 22, 2023
18252059 OPTICAL RELAY SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 08, 2023
17799994 LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS FACILITATING DIRECTED INSPECTION OF LASER-PROCESSED WORKPIECES AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17326664 PHASED ARRAY STEERING FOR LASER BEAM POSITIONING SYSTEMS ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL 3761 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending May 21, 2021

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