Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Lightmatter Inc.

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (40%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
40% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 1 53.1% +31.4%
CHU, CHRIS H 1 53.2% +9.3%
KIK, PHALLAKA 1 90.7% +1.6%
STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB 1 100.0% +0.0%
DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO 1 70.6% +41.7%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17967314 PIN SHARING FOR PHOTONIC PROCESSORS KIK, PHALLAKA
17964889 CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION USING AN ANALOG PROCESSOR STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18731065 TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT TUNING OF MICRO-RING MODULATORS FOR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING HOLLWEG, THOMAS A
17526960 PARALLELIZATION AND PIPELINING STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFICIENT ANALOG NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18731065 TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT TUNING OF MICRO-RING MODULATORS FOR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING HOLLWEG, THOMAS A
17526960 PARALLELIZATION AND PIPELINING STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFICIENT ANALOG NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2182 2
2874 1
2851 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18731065 TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT TUNING OF MICRO-RING MODULATORS FOR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING HOLLWEG, THOMAS A §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18190926 PHOTONIC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM, PACKAGES AND RELATED FABRICATION CHU, CHRIS H 2874 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Mar 27, 2023
17967314 PIN SHARING FOR PHOTONIC PROCESSORS KIK, PHALLAKA 2851 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Oct 17, 2022
17964889 CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION USING AN ANALOG PROCESSOR STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB 2182 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 12, 2022
17526960 PARALLELIZATION AND PIPELINING STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFICIENT ANALOG NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO 2182 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2021

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