Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
IPG PHOTONICS Corporation has 12 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units, indicating a widely distributed examination profile.
EISEMAN, LYNSEY C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Most matters therefore require separate examiner-specific handling, although the two matters before that examiner may support useful comparison of claim treatment.
The art-unit spread makes technical organization important for portfolio oversight. Counsel should identify recurring device and mechanical concepts across the matters, then adapt prior-art analysis and amendment strategy to the assigned art unit and examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 2 | 49.1% | +39.5% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.1% |
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 1 | 63.9% | +18.7% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 1 | 51.7% | +26.1% |
| SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 1 | 51.3% | +48.8% |
| HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 1 | — | — |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 79.2% | +12.2% |
| LIU, CHRIS Q | 1 | 68.7% | +39.3% |
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088593 | Methods and Systems for Characterizing Laser Machining Properties by Measuring Keyhole Dynamics Using Interferometry | COOK, JONATHON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18023058 | HANDHELD LASER SYSTEM | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 7d |
| 18683860 | AN APPARTUS AND METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL ABLATIVE TREATMENT OF TISSUE | HOLMES, REX R | 22d |
| 18400153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING LASER TREATMENTS USING REFLECTED INTENSITY SIGNALS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | — |
| 18279647 | INTRACAVITY HOLOGRAPHIC LASER MODE CONVERTER | MENEFEE, JAMES A | — |
| 18029423 | BEAM SHAPING SYSTEM IN THE PROCESS OF LASER WELDING | LIU, CHRIS Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019356 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING LASER TREATMENTS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 117d overdue |
| 18683860 | AN APPARTUS AND METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL ABLATIVE TREATMENT OF TISSUE | HOLMES, REX R | 22d |
| 19088593 | Methods and Systems for Characterizing Laser Machining Properties by Measuring Keyhole Dynamics Using Interferometry | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 18686612 | FLEXIBLE MINIATURE ENDOSCOPE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | — |
| 18683700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAFE AND EFFICACIOUS TREATMENT OF UROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WITH LASER ENERGY | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
| 18579983 | REMOTE MONITORING OF FLUID PRESSURE IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | — |
| 18400153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING LASER TREATMENTS USING REFLECTED INTENSITY SIGNALS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | — |
| 18279647 | INTRACAVITY HOLOGRAPHIC LASER MODE CONVERTER | MENEFEE, JAMES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3761 | 3 |
| 2828 | 2 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088593 | Methods and Systems for Characterizing Laser Machining Properties by Measuring Keyhole Dynamics Using Interferometry | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18686612 | FLEXIBLE MINIATURE ENDOSCOPE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18683860 | AN APPARTUS AND METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL ABLATIVE TREATMENT OF TISSUE | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18683700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAFE AND EFFICACIOUS TREATMENT OF UROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WITH LASER ENERGY | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18579983 | REMOTE MONITORING OF FLUID PRESSURE IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18400153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING LASER TREATMENTS USING REFLECTED INTENSITY SIGNALS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18569443 | CLEANING FUNCTIONALITY IN HANDHELD LASER SYSTEM | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18279647 | INTRACAVITY HOLOGRAPHIC LASER MODE CONVERTER | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18029423 | BEAM SHAPING SYSTEM IN THE PROCESS OF LASER WELDING | LIU, CHRIS Q | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18023058 | HANDHELD LASER SYSTEM | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18019356 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING LASER TREATMENTS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 117d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17251801 | HIGH-POWER YTTERBIUM:ERBIUM (YB:ER) FIBER LASER SYSTEM WITH 1.02 - 1.06 UM CLAD PUMPING SCHEME | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 2828 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 131d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialIPG PHOTONICS Corporation has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 11 examiners.
Lynsey C Eiseman has the most, with 2 of IPG PHOTONICS Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
