Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Light Science Technologies Limited currently manages 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The company's current prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly specialized focus. Practitioners should observe that the reliance on NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI for the entirety of the pending workload simplifies the communication process.
This centralized structure in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector allows the applicant to tailor its arguments to a single set of examiner preferences. With only 1 pending office action total, the company can focus its resources on this specific case to ensure a favorable outcome. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated within a narrow technical framework. By concentrating its efforts on a single examiner, the company can more effectively manage its intellectual property budget and prioritize the most critical aspects of its technical disclosures. The outcome of this single case will define the company's current standing in its chosen technology area and may influence the direction of future research and development efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256465 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 70d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256465 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 70d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18256465 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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