Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
46 pending office actions • 20 art units • 43 examiners • 0 of 46 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days
II-VI Delaware Inc. maintains a significant presence in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with 44 pending office actions currently active. This workload is distributed across 42 distinct examiners, indicating a very broad and decentralized prosecution strategy. The applications are further spread across 20 distinct art units, reflecting a wide range of technical sub-sectors within their primary technology area. The presence of 20 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations span various technical classifications.
The busiest examiner for the company is DENNIS P JOSEPH, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Given that there are 44 pending office actions in total, the fact that the busiest examiner only handles 2 actions underscores the high degree of examiner diversity in this portfolio. With 42 distinct examiners involved, the company's prosecution outcomes are not heavily dependent on any single individual. This distribution across 42 distinct examiners highlights a decentralized prosecution environment.
Managing this volume of pending office actions across 20 distinct art units requires a sophisticated approach to patent prosecution. The variety of examiners suggests that the company must adapt to many different examination styles. Practitioners should be prepared for different procedural requirements across the 20 distinct art units. This profile reflects a large and technically varied set of active patent applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (9%) |
| §103 only | 18 (39%) |
| §102 only | 2 (4%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 19 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH, DENNIS P | 2 | 49.3% | +17.5% |
| CARTER, MICHAEL W | 2 | 74.3% | +15.8% |
| VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2 | 54.2% | +38.1% |
| LEE, MATTHEW Y | 1 | 81.5% | +18.3% |
| ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | 1 | 89.7% | +12.5% |
| WOLF, DARREN E | 1 | 85.0% | +15.2% |
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.4% | +8.5% |
| DION, MARCEL T | 1 | 40.8% | +37.1% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
| LI, SHI K | 1 | 73.3% | +4.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008981 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Containerized Optical Network Data Warehouse | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — |
| 19008091 | SIGNALING ON A HIGH-SPEED DATA CONNECTOR | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18909176 | Fiber Amplifier Having Dual Output Laser Diode | HELLNER, MARK | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496481 | CADMIUM REMOVAL IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY RECYCLING | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 17d overdue |
| 17987015 | Dual-Band ASE Source Utilizing A Reflective Topology | KING, JOSHUA | 5d overdue |
| 18382370 | MULTI-LAYER DIELECTRIC COATINGS FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY DIELECTRIC GRATINGS | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 19d |
| 18396959 | ADAPTER TO COUPLE A WIRE TO A SOLDER JOINT | MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE | 21d |
| 18368414 | Device For Monitoring The State of Optical Elements of A Device For Laser Material Processing | CHAU, ALAIN | 33d |
| 19053230 | SMALL INTEGRATED FREE SPACE CIRCULATOR | LEE, MATTHEW Y | — |
| 18901318 | MACHINE FOR FINISHING A WORK PIECE, AND HAVING A HIGHLY CONTROLLABLE TREATMENT TOOL | DION, MARCEL T | — |
| 18817605 | METHOD FOR SELECTION OF CAMERA IMAGE SECTIONS | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17806987 | EDGE RATE (RISE AND FALL TIME) CONTROLLED SEGMENTED LASER DRIVER | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 26d overdue |
| 19053230 | SMALL INTEGRATED FREE SPACE CIRCULATOR | LEE, MATTHEW Y | — |
| 19008981 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Containerized Optical Network Data Warehouse | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — |
| 19008091 | SIGNALING ON A HIGH-SPEED DATA CONNECTOR | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18901318 | MACHINE FOR FINISHING A WORK PIECE, AND HAVING A HIGHLY CONTROLLABLE TREATMENT TOOL | DION, MARCEL T | — |
| 18817605 | METHOD FOR SELECTION OF CAMERA IMAGE SECTIONS | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| 18625725 | SYSTEM FOR PUMPING RAMAN AMPLIFICATION | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — |
| 18612973 | TUNABLE RAMAN PUMP FOR RAMAN AMPLIFICATION | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 6 |
| 2828 | 4 |
| 2874 | 3 |
| 2635 | 2 |
| 2634 | 2 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19053230 | SMALL INTEGRATED FREE SPACE CIRCULATOR | LEE, MATTHEW Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19008981 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Containerized Optical Network Data Warehouse | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008091 | SIGNALING ON A HIGH-SPEED DATA CONNECTOR | WOLF, DARREN E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18909176 | Fiber Amplifier Having Dual Output Laser Diode | HELLNER, MARK | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18901318 | MACHINE FOR FINISHING A WORK PIECE, AND HAVING A HIGHLY CONTROLLABLE TREATMENT TOOL | DION, MARCEL T | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18817605 | METHOD FOR SELECTION OF CAMERA IMAGE SECTIONS | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18808346 | INTERLOCKED N-BY-N WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH | LI, SHI K | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18802317 | ULTRAFAST MODULATION VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL) | NIU, XINNING | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18837711 | Optical Transceiver With Integrated Dispersion Compensation For High Bit Rate Applications | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 2634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18792840 | CLADDING PUMPED DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIER FOR MULTI-CORE-FIBER TRANSMISSION | DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18774650 | PARTIALLY ETCHED PHASE-TRANSFORMING OPTICAL ELEMENT | LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18764492 | PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING ARRAY OF PHOTONIC DEVICES | JORDAN, ANDREW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18677294 | TOF MODULE LEVERAGING FOPLP TECHNOLOGY | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18669340 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HARDWARE CONFIGURED NETWORK | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 2634 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18655921 | PHOTONIC DEVICE WITH EXTENDED METAL LAYER AND METHODS | LE, UYEN CHAU N | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18648432 | ASPHERIC LENS WITH SOLID SHELL AND LIQUID INNER CORE | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2024 |
| 18639564 | REACTION BONDED SIC-DIAMOND (RBSIC-DIAMOND) COMPOSITE WITH MACHINABLE FEATURES | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18625725 | SYSTEM FOR PUMPING RAMAN AMPLIFICATION | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18620288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFICATION | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18612973 | TUNABLE RAMAN PUMP FOR RAMAN AMPLIFICATION | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18599506 | MULTI-POLARIZATION OPTICAL DEVICE | WONG, ERIC K | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18596898 | OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE OPTICAL CONNECTORS | BELLO, AGUSTIN | 2635 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18406480 | MULTI-JUNCTION LASER DIODE WITH IMPROVED WAVELENGTH STABILITY | CARTER, MICHAEL W | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18396959 | ADAPTER TO COUPLE A WIRE TO A SOLDER JOINT | MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE | 2834 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18545269 | Monolithic Integrated Circuit Laser Multiplexer | ZHANG, YUANDA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18522647 | BOTTOM SURFACE EMITTING VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18496481 | CADMIUM REMOVAL IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY RECYCLING | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18382174 | Optical Waveguide Interferometer with Controllable Length Imbalance and Minimum Bends | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18382370 | MULTI-LAYER DIELECTRIC COATINGS FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY DIELECTRIC GRATINGS | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18487368 | POLARIZED/LENSED BACK-SIDE EMITTING (BSE) VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL) | MENEFEE, JAMES A | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18478921 | HIGH POWER LASER ARRAY DEVICES AND METHODS | CARTER, MICHAEL W | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18472494 | Double-Sided Coating for Electrochemical Device Applications | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18368414 | Device For Monitoring The State of Optical Elements of A Device For Laser Material Processing | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18368000 | Device For Monitoring Properties of A Laser Beam | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18350511 | METHODS FOR ABERRATION CORRECTION IN HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE OPTICAL SYSTEMS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18139174 | Method and System For Making Long SIC Tubes | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18131571 | Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser with Independent Definition of Current and Light Confinement | MANNO, JESSICA S | 2898 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18295769 | WSS UTILIZING LCOS ARRAYS COMPRISING RECTANGULAR PIXELS | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18126667 | DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING GUIDE WITH REFLECTIVE COATINGS | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18122188 | REFLECTIVE FIBER AMPLIFIER IN A CASCADED TOPOLOGY FOR OPERATION IN C-BAND AND L-BAND WAVELENGTH RANGES | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18081378 | OPTICAL SOURCE ASSEMBLIES FOR USE WITH ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (OLED) BASED SCREENS FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 18063802 | INERT GAS-ASSISTED LASER MACHINING OF CERAMIC-CONTAINING ARTICLES | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17987015 | Dual-Band ASE Source Utilizing A Reflective Topology | KING, JOSHUA | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17960221 | COMPUTER-CONTROLLED PROCESSING USING NEURAL NETWORK-BASED SELECTION OF OPTIMUM PROCESS ALGORITHM | RAHMAN, IBRAHIM | 2122 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
| 17806987 | EDGE RATE (RISE AND FALL TIME) CONTROLLED SEGMENTED LASER DRIVER | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
| 17248839 | Composite Extractant-Enhanced Polymer Resin, Method of Making the Same, and Its Usage for Extraction of Valuable Metal(s) | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 10, 2021 |
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