Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Keystone Photonics GmbH operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, maintaining 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. The concentration of the portfolio into 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical focus for the current pending matter.
COURTNEY G MCDONNOUGH serves as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This figure matches the total pending office actions of 1 for the company, indicating that the active portfolio is under the review of a single individual. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the direct ratio between pending actions and examiners simplifies the current administrative oversight.
The presence of the 1 distinct art unit for the pending office action confirms that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific regulatory path. With the assigned examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is presently centralized. This narrow scope of activity provides a clear, singular channel for addressing patent office requirements in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics space.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 1 | 81.7% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082273 | OPTICAL PROBE AND RELATED METHODS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082273 | OPTICAL PROBE AND RELATED METHODS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19082273 | OPTICAL PROBE AND RELATED METHODS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKeystone Photonics GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Courtney G Mcdonnough has the most, with 1 of Keystone Photonics GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
