Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hamamatsu Photonics A/S is managing 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, providing the company with multiple individual perspectives on its current applications. The involvement of 2 distinct art units further indicates that the company's intellectual property is being reviewed across different technical contexts. The busiest examiner, PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL, is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which represents 2 of the 3 pending office actions total.
The concentration of 3 pending office actions within 2 distinct art units suggests a focused but slightly distributed prosecution strategy in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. With the busiest examiner handling 2 pending office actions, a significant portion of the company's current success is tied to a single individual's review. However, the presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units ensures that the company is not entirely dependent on a single administrative silo, allowing for some variation in examination standards and technical feedback.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2 | 82.2% | +24.1% |
| HUANG, WEN | 1 | 82.0% | +22.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788434 | LIGHT SOURCE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 17d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952250 | LIGHT SOURCE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
| 18888757 | OPTICAL FILTER FOR A BROAD BAND SOURCE | HUANG, WEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788434 | LIGHT SOURCE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 17d overdue |
| 18952250 | LIGHT SOURCE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
| 18888757 | OPTICAL FILTER FOR A BROAD BAND SOURCE | HUANG, WEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18952250 | LIGHT SOURCE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18888757 | OPTICAL FILTER FOR A BROAD BAND SOURCE | HUANG, WEN | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18788434 | LIGHT SOURCE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHamamatsu Photonics A/S has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Carlos Gabriel Perez-Guzman has the most, with 2 of Hamamatsu Photonics A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
