Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
OFS Fitel LLC is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter receives an independent review from a different official. Despite this variety in examiners, the entire portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current semiconductor and optics filings, even as the workload is spread across 6 different individuals. Practitioners can benefit from the procedural consistency provided by the 1 distinct art unit while addressing the individual preferences of the 6 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner, ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 6 distinct examiners for the 6 total pending actions, the company's prosecution is fully decentralized at the examiner level. However, the use of only 1 distinct art unit means that all 6 pending office actions are subject to the same overarching technical oversight and procedural norms of that specific unit. Practitioners should focus on maintaining consistency in their technical arguments across these 6 actions, as they all reside within the same 1 distinct art unit. The 6 pending office actions represent a focused but examiner-diverse effort to protect the company's optical technologies. This structure allows for multiple independent evaluations of the company's claims within a stable regulatory environment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 71.3% | +15.6% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | 1 | 89.7% | +12.5% |
| BLEVINS, JERRY M | 1 | 87.5% | +5.0% |
| SMITH, CHAD | 1 | 78.9% | +20.3% |
| MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 1 | 83.0% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688306 | OPTICAL FIBER INCLUDING INTRA-CLADDING BARRIER LAYER | BLEVINS, JERRY M | 25d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285863 | METHODS OF INCREASING HIGHER-ORDER MODE SUPPRESSION IN LARGE-MODE AREA RING FIBERS AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 23d overdue |
| 18843787 | STRESS-CONTROLLED PACKAGING SCHEME FOR FIBER-BASED OPTICAL DEVICES | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 18720196 | SPECIALIZED OPTICAL FIBER CLADDING FOR SUPPRESSING MODE COUPLING DURING TAPERING | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
| 18711717 | ENHANCED BACK-SCATTERING FIBER-OPTIC NETWORKS | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — |
| 18286407 | OPTICAL FIBER ROLLABLE RIBBON HAVING LOW YOUNG'S MODULUS BONDING MATRIX MATERIAL | SMITH, CHAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285863 | METHODS OF INCREASING HIGHER-ORDER MODE SUPPRESSION IN LARGE-MODE AREA RING FIBERS AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 23d overdue |
| 18843787 | STRESS-CONTROLLED PACKAGING SCHEME FOR FIBER-BASED OPTICAL DEVICES | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 18711717 | ENHANCED BACK-SCATTERING FIBER-OPTIC NETWORKS | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — |
| 18286407 | OPTICAL FIBER ROLLABLE RIBBON HAVING LOW YOUNG'S MODULUS BONDING MATRIX MATERIAL | SMITH, CHAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843787 | STRESS-CONTROLLED PACKAGING SCHEME FOR FIBER-BASED OPTICAL DEVICES | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18720196 | SPECIALIZED OPTICAL FIBER CLADDING FOR SUPPRESSING MODE COUPLING DURING TAPERING | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18711717 | ENHANCED BACK-SCATTERING FIBER-OPTIC NETWORKS | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18688306 | OPTICAL FIBER INCLUDING INTRA-CLADDING BARRIER LAYER | BLEVINS, JERRY M | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18286407 | OPTICAL FIBER ROLLABLE RIBBON HAVING LOW YOUNG'S MODULUS BONDING MATRIX MATERIAL | SMITH, CHAD | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18285863 | METHODS OF INCREASING HIGHER-ORDER MODE SUPPRESSION IN LARGE-MODE AREA RING FIBERS AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | MANHEIM, MARC ETIENNE | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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