Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nlight Inc. is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the company is active in a specific technological field, its applications are being reviewed by a variety of personnel and organizational groups.
CHU, CHRIS H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for a portion of the total 6 pending office actions, while the remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. The concentration of 2 pending office actions with this examiner suggests a focal point for the company's legal strategy. For practitioners, the presence of 5 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units implies that some examiners are likely working within the same unit, potentially allowing for some consistency in broader art unit trends despite individual examiner differences.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, CHRIS H | 2 | 53.2% | +9.4% |
| AZAD, MD ABUL K | 1 | 81.5% | +20.9% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.2% | +17.1% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1 | 69.8% | +47.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 5d |
| 18696775 | SELECTABLE GAUSSIAN AND RING BEAM CHARACTERISTICS | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 5d |
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18671882 | ALL FIBER ADJUSTABLE BEAM SHAPING | CHU, CHRIS H | 2874 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18671923 | ALL FIBER ADJUSTABLE BEAM SHAPING | CHU, CHRIS H | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18696775 | SELECTABLE GAUSSIAN AND RING BEAM CHARACTERISTICS | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2882 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | JORDAN, ANDREW | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
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