Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kineolabs Inc. maintains a portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 4 pending office actions. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, indicating that every pending case is under the review of a different person. This ratio of examiners to actions suggests a lack of examiner-level concentration in the company's current prosecution efforts. For the practitioner, this means that each case must be argued on its own merits without the benefit of a single examiner's familiarity with the broader portfolio.
Despite the variety of examiners, all prosecution activity is centered within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, GRAY, SUNGHEE Y, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed, with no single examiner managing more than 1 action. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical focus, even as the company navigates the individual requirements of 4 distinct examiners.
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 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 1 | 83.2% | +10.8% |
| HANEY, NOAH JAMES | 1 | 79.0% | +31.7% |
| AMARA, MOHAMED K | 1 | 75.8% | +29.8% |
| RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 1 | 87.9% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359337 | Compact all free-space line-field swept source OCT system | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 2d overdue |
| 18981070 | Line-field OCT System with K Space Calibration | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950320 | Line-field OCT System with Multi Transverse Mode Laser | HANEY, NOAH JAMES | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736769 | Relative intensity noise Cat's-eye swept source laser for OCT and spectroscopy | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 45d overdue |
| 18359337 | Compact all free-space line-field swept source OCT system | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 2d overdue |
| 18981070 | Line-field OCT System with K Space Calibration | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | — |
| 18950320 | Line-field OCT System with Multi Transverse Mode Laser | HANEY, NOAH JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981070 | Line-field OCT System with K Space Calibration | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18950320 | Line-field OCT System with Multi Transverse Mode Laser | HANEY, NOAH JAMES | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18736769 | Relative intensity noise Cat's-eye swept source laser for OCT and spectroscopy | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18359337 | Compact all free-space line-field swept source OCT system | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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