Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's active prosecution is not concentrated under a single individual or office division, providing a broader base of examiner interaction than a single-action portfolio.
The busiest examiner identified for this portfolio is CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles a portion of the active matters. The remaining action is managed by the other of the 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner has total control over the company's active patent applications.
The relationship between the pending actions and art units suggests that each matter is being evaluated within a different technical or administrative context within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This variety requires the company to adapt to the specific examination styles of multiple distinct examiners simultaneously. Managing pending office actions across separate units may offer insights into different facets of the patent office's approach to their technology.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 1 | 21.7% | +85.7% |
| NGUYEN, THONG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17867654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ILLUMINATING AND DESIGNATING OBJECTS THROUGH USE OF AN ADVANCED PHOTON EMITTER | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 72d |
| 17816287 | FACE MASK STRAP RETENTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17867654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ILLUMINATING AND DESIGNATING OBJECTS THROUGH USE OF AN ADVANCED PHOTON EMITTER | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 72d |
| 17816287 | FACE MASK STRAP RETENTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17816287 | FACE MASK STRAP RETENTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17867654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ILLUMINATING AND DESIGNATING OBJECTS THROUGH USE OF AN ADVANCED PHOTON EMITTER | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
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