Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Photonics Technology Institute holds a portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners working across 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the examiner count matches the number of pending actions.
NIGAM, NATASHA is the busiest examiner for the institute, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently handling 1 action. This parity indicates exposure to different individual examiner styles within a small number of art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
| NIU, XINNING | 1 | 82.6% | +4.7% |
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 1 | 39.4% | +30.4% |
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 8.6% | +50.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488099 | AR OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF OCULAR DYSKINESIA WITH QUALITY OF PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGES AND AR APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18485436 | VCSEL DIODE AND VCSEL DIODE ARRAY HAVING COMMON ANODE STRUCTURE | NIU, XINNING | — |
| 18232922 | MICRO VCSEL WITH IMPROVED BEAM QUALITY AND MICRO VCSEL ARRAY | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18253072 | LED LIGHT PATCH, SKIN CARE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488099 | AR OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF OCULAR DYSKINESIA WITH QUALITY OF PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGES AND AR APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18232922 | MICRO VCSEL WITH IMPROVED BEAM QUALITY AND MICRO VCSEL ARRAY | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18253072 | LED LIGHT PATCH, SKIN CARE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18488099 | AR OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF OCULAR DYSKINESIA WITH QUALITY OF PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGES AND AR APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18485436 | VCSEL DIODE AND VCSEL DIODE ARRAY HAVING COMMON ANODE STRUCTURE | NIU, XINNING | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18232922 | MICRO VCSEL WITH IMPROVED BEAM QUALITY AND MICRO VCSEL ARRAY | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18253072 | LED LIGHT PATCH, SKIN CARE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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