Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nilt Switzerland GmbH has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners. These matters are currently active across 4 distinct art units, showing a concentration of technical review within a limited number of patent office divisions.
PICHLER, MARIN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner. This action is part of the 5 total pending office actions currently being prosecuted by the company. The distribution of 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners are likely working within the same art unit to review the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics applications.
The presence of 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners ensures that each application receives individual attention from a different official. PICHLER, MARIN and the other examiners represent a broad front of prosecution. With 4 distinct art units involved, the company's strategy in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is spread across several specialized administrative groups, requiring a coordinated approach to maintain consistency.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.3% | +9.8% |
| MALEK, MALIHEH | 1 | 79.7% | +3.6% |
| VU, PHU | 1 | 85.3% | +9.8% |
| CHIEM, DINH D | 1 | 72.3% | +16.3% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 1 | 61.7% | +24.0% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685998 | OPTICAL METASTRUCTURES HAVING META-ATOMS THAT INCLUDE A PLURALITY OF SUBLAYERS HAVING DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE INDICES OF REFRACTION | PICHLER, MARIN | 34d |
| 18277645 | OPTICAL DEVICES INCLUDING AN OPTICAL LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE | CHIEM, DINH D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18011679 | REPLICATION MATERIAL REMOVAL | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 10d overdue |
| 18277645 | OPTICAL DEVICES INCLUDING AN OPTICAL LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE | CHIEM, DINH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18685998 | OPTICAL METASTRUCTURES HAVING META-ATOMS THAT INCLUDE A PLURALITY OF SUBLAYERS HAVING DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE INDICES OF REFRACTION | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18289168 | MANUFACTURING OF SURFACE EMITTING LASERS INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED METASTRUCTURE | MALEK, MALIHEH | 2813 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18285818 | OPTICAL METASTRUCTURES HAVING META-ATOMS COMPOSED OF A HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIAL | VU, PHU | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18277645 | OPTICAL DEVICES INCLUDING AN OPTICAL LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18011679 | REPLICATION MATERIAL REMOVAL | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
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