Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lumotive Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but varied technical scope for the company's current patent filings. The prosecution work involves 3 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending action is being handled by a different individual at the patent office. This distribution requires the applicant to manage simultaneous dialogues across different examination styles.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 3 and the busiest examiner only handles 1, the workload is evenly distributed across the 3 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no 1 examiner has a dominant influence over the company's pending outcomes. Practitioners must therefore prepare for unique sets of examiner preferences and procedural approaches within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 1 | — | — |
| CHERRY, EUNCHA P | 1 | 88.1% | +9.4% |
| MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN | 1 | 75.0% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433074 | SOFTWARE-DEFINED LIDAR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — |
| 18414236 | LARGE FOV OPTICAL METASURFACE SYSTEMS | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18327777 | DIELECTRIC BARRIER FOR REFLECTIVE BACKPLANE OF TUNABLE OPTICAL METASURFACES | MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18433074 | SOFTWARE-DEFINED LIDAR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18414236 | LARGE FOV OPTICAL METASURFACE SYSTEMS | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18327777 | DIELECTRIC BARRIER FOR REFLECTIVE BACKPLANE OF TUNABLE OPTICAL METASURFACES | MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
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