Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lumentum Technology UK Limited currently manages 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is CARTER, MICHAEL W, who is responsible for the only active matter. This examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's active prosecution.
The company's active prosecution is focused on 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the review of the company's semiconductor and optics technology is centralized. CARTER, MICHAEL W is the only examiner currently managing the company's pending workload. This concentration in a single art unit ensures that the company's 1 pending office action is evaluated by a specialist in the semiconductor field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUGHES, DEANDRA M | 1 | 78.5% | +18.4% |
| CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 1 | 59.1% | +39.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410828 | HIGH SPEED OPTICAL FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT DEVICE | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 121d overdue |
| 18425706 | INTEGRATED LASER MODULATOR WITH E-STOPPER LAYER | HUGHES, DEANDRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18425706 | INTEGRATED LASER MODULATOR WITH E-STOPPER LAYER | HUGHES, DEANDRA M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18410828 | HIGH SPEED OPTICAL FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT DEVICE | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 121d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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