Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

NICHIA Corporation

64 pending office actions • 23 art units • 57 examiners • 0 of 64 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 182 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

64
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
23
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

23
Hard (36%)
37
Medium (58%)
3
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only30 (47%)
§102 only4 (6%)
§112 only3 (5%)
Double-patenting + other3 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)23 (36%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

9
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
35
Semiconductors
55% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
2% of docket
19
Business / Other
30% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

640 h
Manual time on pending OAs
128 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
224 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAGAN, SEAN P 3 39.0% +30.3%
DINKE, BITEW A 2 72.7% +12.2%
KOSLOW, CAROL M 2 81.8% +12.0%
EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE 2 71.3% +15.8%
CHEN, DAVID Z 2 44.8% +49.9%
KOLAHDOUZAN, HAJAR 2 74.5% +22.4%
HARRIS, WILLIAM N 1 73.8% +13.1%
GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 1 67.9% +8.1%
ARK, DARREN W 1 56.3% +64.5%
PENNY, TABATHA L 1 45.4% +22.6%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18705336 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE KOSLOW, CAROL M
18634272 COATED MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED MAGNETIC MATERIAL KOSLOW, CAROL M

Hard Cases (23)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18540104 LIGHT EMITTING UNIT AND LENS UNIT AHMAD, KHAJA 15d overdue
18513504 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL MEMBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY 16d
18468650 CERAMIC SINTERED BODY SUBSTRATE, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF LEE, WOO KYUNG 20d
18391651 CERAMIC SINTERED COMPACT SUBSTRATE, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC SINTERED COMPACT SUBSTRATE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE VARGHESE, ROSHN K 76d
19428928 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HARRIS, WILLIAM N
19264696 PEST CONTROL SYSTEM AND CROP PRODUCTION METHOD ARK, DARREN W
19229217 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING METAL-COATED MEMBER, METAL-COATED MEMBER, WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MEMBER, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE PENNY, TABATHA L
19208090 LIGHT SOURCE LUQUE, RENAN

Interview Candidates (16)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17741036 VERTICAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER HAGAN, SEAN P 15d
19428928 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HARRIS, WILLIAM N
19264696 PEST CONTROL SYSTEM AND CROP PRODUCTION METHOD ARK, DARREN W
19229217 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING METAL-COATED MEMBER, METAL-COATED MEMBER, WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MEMBER, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE PENNY, TABATHA L
18780099 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL MEMBER, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DINKE, BITEW A
18755275 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE DINKE, BITEW A
18705336 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE KOSLOW, CAROL M
18634272 COATED MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED MAGNETIC MATERIAL KOSLOW, CAROL M

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2828 8
2817 5
2875 4
2898 3
2815 3
1784 2
2813 2
2818 2
2896 2
3647 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19428928 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HARRIS, WILLIAM N 2875 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2025
19364713 VEHICLE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND VEHICLE LIGHTING FIXTURE GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 2875 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2025
19264696 PEST CONTROL SYSTEM AND CROP PRODUCTION METHOD ARK, DARREN W 3647 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2025
19229217 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING METAL-COATED MEMBER, METAL-COATED MEMBER, WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MEMBER, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE PENNY, TABATHA L 1784 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2025
19225432 LIGHT SOURCE MODULE CHIANG, MICHAEL 2875 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jun 02, 2025
19208090 LIGHT SOURCE LUQUE, RENAN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2025
19092145 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 27, 2025
18911771 MAGNET UNIT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18899721 OPTICAL DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE CHUNG, DAVID Y §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18891031 METHOD FOR PRODUCING RARE EARTH MAGNET AND RARE EARTH MAGNET KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1784 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18780099 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL MEMBER, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DINKE, BITEW A §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18774285 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE YUSHINA, GALINA G §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18769527 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 11, 2024
18755275 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE DINKE, BITEW A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18672863 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DZIERZYNSKI, EVAN P §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2024
18665194 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING TEMPERATURE OF LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, AND AUTOMOTIVE UNIT FITZPATRICK, JULIA GRACE 2855 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2024
18663022 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE BODNAR, JOHN A §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18659522 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE YI, CHANGHYUN §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18658369 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE SHAMSUZZAMAN, MOHAMMED §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18705336 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE KOSLOW, CAROL M §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18644418 SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT, MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE USING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT AHMED, SHAHED §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 24, 2024
18634272 COATED MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED MAGNETIC MATERIAL KOSLOW, CAROL M §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 12, 2024
18621240 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING SPERM MOTILITY LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18613110 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME NEWTON, VALERIE N §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2024
18613234 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2024
18601704 LIGHT SOURCE AND LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE CHOI, CALVIN Y 2812 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 11, 2024
18595540 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE PRIDEMORE, NATHAN ANDREW 2898 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2024
18417032 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 2817 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18411642 POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME HAUTH, GALEN H §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18575261 ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT FLUID TREATMENT DEVICE EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18394693 METHOD OF PRODUCING NITRIDE FLUORESCENT MATERIAL AND NITRIDE FLUORESCENT MATERIAL EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18391651 CERAMIC SINTERED COMPACT SUBSTRATE, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC SINTERED COMPACT SUBSTRATE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE VARGHESE, ROSHN K 1741 §102§103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18540104 LIGHT EMITTING UNIT AND LENS UNIT AHMAD, KHAJA 2813 §102§103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18539599 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18565218 LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN 1759 §103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18564084 OXIDE PHOSPHOR, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OXIDE PHOSPHOR EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE 1734 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2023
18513504 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL MEMBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY 2899 §103§112 Final Rejection 16d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18478965 METHOD OF PREPARING ANISOTROPIC MAGNETIC POWDER COMPRESSION MOLDED PRODUCT AND BONDED MAGNET SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR 1738 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18476152 ANTI-FUSE ELEMENT AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE MEHTA, RATISHA 2817 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2023
18467920 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 2818 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 15, 2023
18468650 CERAMIC SINTERED BODY SUBSTRATE, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF LEE, WOO KYUNG 2815 §103§112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18466070 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE CHEN, YU 2896 §102 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18449784 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CAP AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, CAP, AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 15, 2023
18365658 ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR A FLUORIDE ION BATTERY, ELECTRODE FOR A FLUORIDE ION BATTERY, AND FLUORIDE ION BATTERY RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI 1712 §102 Final Rejection Pending Aug 04, 2023
18360268 LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE CAMACHO ALANIS, FERNANDA ADRIANA 2828 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 27, 2023
18359426 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE NIU, XINNING 2828 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 26, 2023
18359155 Light Source Device and Semiconductor Device GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 2828 Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2023
18342424 CONDUCTIVE PASTE, WIRING SUBSTRATE, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE,AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF KOLB, THADDEUS J 2817 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18325543 PHOSPHOR CERAMIC, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR CHEN, DAVID Z 2815 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2023
18322195 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2023
18320668 LIGHT EMITTING MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH 2817 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 19, 2023
18308602 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MOUNTING MEMBER CARTER, MICHAEL W 2828 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18306348 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE OH, JIYOUNG 2818 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2023
18299282 LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE BELL, LAUREN R 2896 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18193539 OPTICAL MEMBER AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE CHEN, DAVID Z 2815 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 30, 2023
18189860 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA 2817 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18174646 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT KOLAHDOUZAN, HAJAR 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2023
17976949 SUBSTRATE FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENTS, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING SUBSTRATE FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENTS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SUBSTRATE FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENTS CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N 2813 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2022
18047989 OPTICAL MEMBER AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE TAN, DAVE 2897 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 19, 2022
17940406 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NON-CLASSICAL LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, NON-CLASSICAL LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE DEVICE, AND RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR KOLAHDOUZAN, HAJAR 2898 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 08, 2022
17759422 POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME OROZCO, MARIA F 1729 §103§112DP Final Rejection Pending Jul 25, 2022
17847442 LASER LIGHT SOURCE VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 2828 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 23, 2022
17741036 VERTICAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 10, 2022
17721073 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 14, 2022

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