Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 1 of 9 (11%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innolight Technology (Suzhou) Ltd. maintains a portfolio with 9 pending office actions concentrated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, which indicates that nearly every action is handled by a different individual. Despite this distribution, the work spans only 3 distinct art units, reflecting a technical focus within the semiconductor sector.
WANG, QUAN ZHEN is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This concentration with an examiner represents a portion of the 9 total actions. The ratio of 8 distinct examiners to 3 distinct art units implies that multiple examiners are operating within the same art unit for this portfolio. Practitioners can expect a variety of examiner perspectives while navigating the distinct art units. The presence of the pending office actions across the distinct examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution strategy regarding personnel. With 2 actions assigned to the busiest examiner, the remaining workload is spread among the other staff.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 2 | 51.2% | +24.5% |
| EIDE, ERIC T | 1 | 66.9% | +22.1% |
| KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.0% | +20.0% |
| WONG, TINA MEI SENG | 1 | 84.3% | +14.4% |
| SARKER-NAG, AKHEE | 1 | 81.7% | +12.5% |
| YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 80.6% | +12.1% |
| CHU, CHRIS H | 1 | 53.2% | +9.4% |
| VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 1 | 54.2% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729508 | OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | — |
| 18715742 | PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR | SARKER-NAG, AKHEE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631603 | OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL MODULE | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 23d overdue |
| 18842802 | SPECTRUM SCANNING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2d overdue |
| 18966422 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | — |
| 18715744 | PHOTODETECTOR | YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18644583 | OPTICAL MODULE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREFOR | CHU, CHRIS H | — |
| 18429371 | ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER CHIP AND LASER CHIP ENCAPSULATION STRUCTURE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631603 | OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL MODULE | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 23d overdue |
| 18842802 | SPECTRUM SCANNING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2d overdue |
| 18966422 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | — |
| 18857464 | OPTICAL MODULE | EIDE, ERIC T | — |
| 18729508 | OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | — |
| 18715742 | PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR | SARKER-NAG, AKHEE | — |
| 18715744 | PHOTODETECTOR | YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18429371 | ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER CHIP AND LASER CHIP ENCAPSULATION STRUCTURE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966422 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18857464 | OPTICAL MODULE | EIDE, ERIC T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18842802 | SPECTRUM SCANNING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18729508 | OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18715742 | PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR | SARKER-NAG, AKHEE | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18715744 | PHOTODETECTOR | YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18644583 | OPTICAL MODULE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREFOR | CHU, CHRIS H | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18631603 | OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL MODULE | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 2685 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | AI Ready | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18429371 | ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER CHIP AND LASER CHIP ENCAPSULATION STRUCTURE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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