Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing Lycore Technologies Co. Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for exactly one case. DARREN E WOLF is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution efforts are spread across several individuals without any single point of concentration.
The 5 pending actions are situated within 3 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the semiconductor and optics sectors. Because each of the 5 examiners handles only 1 pending action, the company must manage 5 separate examiner relationships simultaneously. This profile suggests a diverse but relatively small-scale prosecution landscape where the workload is evenly divided across multiple art units and examiners.
Practitioners should prepare for 5 unique negotiation tracks, as the lack of examiner overlap prevents the application of insights from one case to another. The presence of 3 art units further complicates this by introducing multiple sets of technical guidelines for the 5 pending office actions. Managing this portfolio requires a versatile strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of 5 different examiners, including DARREN E WOLF, across 3 specialized technical groups.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLF, DARREN E | 1 | 85.0% | +15.2% |
| MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 1 | 83.0% | +19.6% |
| TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 1 | 60.6% | +12.5% |
| PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 1 | 83.5% | +9.4% |
| BEDTELYON, JOHN M | 1 | 78.3% | +14.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994593 | OPTICAL-MODE MODULATION DEVICE AND PHOTONIC CHIP | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18688674 | ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834742 | ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994593 | OPTICAL-MODE MODULATION DEVICE AND PHOTONIC CHIP | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18834742 | ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | — |
| 18624486 | PHASE MODULATION MODULE AND ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | — |
| 18687035 | SPOT-SIZE CONVERTER STRUCTURE AND PHOTONIC DEVICE | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2634 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994593 | OPTICAL-MODE MODULATION DEVICE AND PHOTONIC CHIP | WOLF, DARREN E | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18834742 | ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18624486 | PHASE MODULATION MODULE AND ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 2896 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18688674 | ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18687035 | SPOT-SIZE CONVERTER STRUCTURE AND PHOTONIC DEVICE | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | 2874 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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