Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 12, 2026

Innolight Technology (Suzhou) Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 1 of 9 (11%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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.

6
Hard (67%)
2
Medium (22%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (67%)

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
1
Communications
11% of docket
4
Semiconductors
44% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
4
Business / Other
44% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, QUAN ZHEN 2 51.0% +24.1%
KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 1 77.1% +20.8%
YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY 1 82.8% +7.3%
SARKER-NAG, AKHEE 1 80.3% +12.9%
CHU, CHRIS H 1 53.2% +9.3%
GREEN, TAJANAE NICOLE 1 50.0% +0.0%
VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 1 54.2% +38.3%
MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE 1 84.6% +18.2%

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
18715742 PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR SARKER-NAG, AKHEE

Hard Cases (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18631603 OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL MODULE WANG, QUAN ZHEN 23d overdue
18598561 OPTICAL COUPLING SYSTEM AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR GREEN, TAJANAE NICOLE 8d overdue
18842802 SPECTRUM SCANNING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 2d overdue
18715744 PHOTODETECTOR YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY
18644583 OPTICAL MODULE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREFOR CHU, CHRIS H
18214116 OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL MODULE MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18715742 PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR SARKER-NAG, AKHEE
18429371 ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER CHIP AND LASER CHIP ENCAPSULATION STRUCTURE VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS
18214116 OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL MODULE MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2874 3
2877 1
2685 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18966422 OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE WANG, QUAN ZHEN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 03, 2024
18842802 SPECTRUM SCANNING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 2877 §103§112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2024
18715744 PHOTODETECTOR YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2024
18715742 PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR SARKER-NAG, AKHEE §103 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
18598561 OPTICAL COUPLING SYSTEM AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR GREEN, TAJANAE NICOLE 2874 §102§103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18429371 ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER CHIP AND LASER CHIP ENCAPSULATION STRUCTURE VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2024
18214116 OPTICAL RECEIVING ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL MODULE MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE 2874 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 26, 2023

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