Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lumina Instruments Inc. is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics research is being reviewed by 1 specialized group at the USPTO.
TON, TRI T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current pending matters are concentrated in 1 area of research. This means that TON, TRI T is the sole examiner responsible for the company's active workload. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is concentrated. This profile allows for interaction with the patent office and affects the management of the company's pending intellectual property matters in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TON, TRI T | 1 | 86.1% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520279 | DUAL SCAN BEAM SEPARATION WITH INDEPENDENT ANGLE OF INCIDENCE DEFECT SCANNER AND OPTICAL INSPECTOR | TON, TRI T | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520279 | DUAL SCAN BEAM SEPARATION WITH INDEPENDENT ANGLE OF INCIDENCE DEFECT SCANNER AND OPTICAL INSPECTOR | TON, TRI T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18520279 | DUAL SCAN BEAM SEPARATION WITH INDEPENDENT ANGLE OF INCIDENCE DEFECT SCANNER AND OPTICAL INSPECTOR | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLumina Instruments Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tri T Ton has the most, with 1 of Lumina Instruments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
