Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Lightmatter Inc. manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. JORDAN, ANDREW is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 pending office action, the workload is spread across the individuals involved. The 2 distinct art units suggest that the company's semiconductor and optics innovations are being evaluated by two different technical groups at the patent office. To resolve the 3 pending office actions, the applicant must navigate the specific requirements of 3 different examiners across these 2 art units. This distribution means that no single examiner or art unit dominates the current prosecution landscape, requiring an approach that manages the active matters. Each of the 3 pending office actions represents a separate engagement with one of the 3 distinct examiners.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.2% | +17.1% |
| CHU, CHRIS H | 1 | 53.2% | +9.4% |
| KIK, PHALLAKA | 1 | 90.8% | +1.6% |
| DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO | 1 | 68.4% | +42.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17967314 | PIN SHARING FOR PHOTONIC PROCESSORS | KIK, PHALLAKA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809928 | ELECTRICAL-OPTICAL CONVERSION WITH 3D STACKED PHOTONIC CHIPLET(S) IN SUBSTRATE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — |
| 17526960 | PARALLELIZATION AND PIPELINING STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFICIENT ANALOG NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809928 | ELECTRICAL-OPTICAL CONVERSION WITH 3D STACKED PHOTONIC CHIPLET(S) IN SUBSTRATE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — |
| 17526960 | PARALLELIZATION AND PIPELINING STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFICIENT ANALOG NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| 2182 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809928 | ELECTRICAL-OPTICAL CONVERSION WITH 3D STACKED PHOTONIC CHIPLET(S) IN SUBSTRATE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18190926 | PHOTONIC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM, PACKAGES AND RELATED FABRICATION | CHU, CHRIS H | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 17967314 | PIN SHARING FOR PHOTONIC PROCESSORS | KIK, PHALLAKA | 2851 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 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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