Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lasertec Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 5 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate examiner assignments alongside strong concentration in the technical-group structure.
RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use the 2 art units to coordinate technical positions while tailoring each response to its assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | 1 | 81.0% | +14.0% |
| KIM, PETER B | 1 | 83.1% | +9.4% |
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 1 | 78.2% | +6.9% |
| KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 1 | 82.7% | +9.5% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 81.9% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080524 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF OPTICAL APPARATUS | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | — |
| 18894572 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, INSPECTION APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE CONTROL METHOD, INSPECTION METHOD, AND EXPOSURE METHOD | KIM, PETER B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755453 | PHOTODETECTOR | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 22d |
| 18588756 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS, POSITION DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING POSITION DETECTION PROGRAM | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080524 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF OPTICAL APPARATUS | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | — |
| 18588756 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS, POSITION DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING POSITION DETECTION PROGRAM | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 3 |
| 2882 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19080524 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF OPTICAL APPARATUS | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18894572 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, INSPECTION APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE CONTROL METHOD, INSPECTION METHOD, AND EXPOSURE METHOD | KIM, PETER B | 2882 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18765608 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18755453 | PHOTODETECTOR | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 2884 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18588756 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS, POSITION DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING POSITION DETECTION PROGRAM | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLasertec Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Christina A Riddle has the most, with 1 of Lasertec Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
