Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
HyperLight Corporation has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners and 2 art units, showing examiner-level dispersion within a compact portfolio.
CONNELLY, MICHELLE R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger concentration, so prosecution planning should remain focused on the individual records and their respective art-unit contexts.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | 1 | 80.0% | +13.1% |
| MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 1 | 83.3% | +19.1% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 1 | 82.9% | +7.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19397685 | INTEGRATION OF LITHIUM NIOBATE PHOTONICS DEVICES | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | — |
| 18946784 | DIFFERENTIAL DRIVE AND BINARY WEIGHTED MODULATORS | GAGNON, GRANT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19446800 | THIN FILM LITHIUM-CONTAINING COMPACT ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19446800 | THIN FILM LITHIUM-CONTAINING COMPACT ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | — |
| 19397685 | INTEGRATION OF LITHIUM NIOBATE PHOTONICS DEVICES | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19446800 | THIN FILM LITHIUM-CONTAINING COMPACT ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | 2874 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2026 |
| 19397685 | INTEGRATION OF LITHIUM NIOBATE PHOTONICS DEVICES | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 18946784 | DIFFERENTIAL DRIVE AND BINARY WEIGHTED MODULATORS | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHyperLight Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Michelle R Connelly has the most, with 1 of HyperLight Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
