Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lmpg Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are being reviewed in 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, CHAN, WEI, is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The fact that 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio's current technical focus is broad enough to trigger different classification standards. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks. CHAN, WEI handles half of the current workload, meaning the portfolio's success is equally weighted between the two assigned examiners. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing multiple technical paths within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Having 2 distinct examiners ensures that the company receives varied feedback, which can be used to refine future patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAN, WEI | 1 | 74.6% | +13.8% |
| FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 1 | 49.1% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18932287 | CONDITIONAL MULTl-CHANNEL LIGHTING CONTROL | CHAN, WEI | 30d overdue |
| 18380331 | LED LIGHTING FIXTURE AND METHOD HAVING OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH SEGMENTED COLLIMATING SURFACES | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2844 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932287 | CONDITIONAL MULTl-CHANNEL LIGHTING CONTROL | CHAN, WEI | 2844 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18380331 | LED LIGHTING FIXTURE AND METHOD HAVING OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH SEGMENTED COLLIMATING SURFACES | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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