Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Onto Innovation Inc.

10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

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

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.

7
Hard (70%)
3
Medium (30%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (20%)
§103 only2 (20%)
Double-patenting + other1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
4
Semiconductors
40% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% of docket
4
Business / Other
40% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 1 77.1% +20.8%
BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS 1 90.3% +10.8%
HANEY, NOAH JAMES 1 79.6% +30.8%
KIM, KIHO 1 85.4% +4.4%
PATEL, PINALBEN V 1 88.9% +9.9%
LE, HUNG VAN 1
BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES 1 68.3% +41.5%
HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL 1 66.7% +5.9%
MARINI, MATTHEW G 1 60.4% +21.7%
FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS 1 15.0% +43.8%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18894816 SUBSTRATE MAPPING USING DEEP NEURAL-NETWORKS PATEL, PINALBEN V

Hard Cases (8)

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
18170792 DEFECT DETECTION IN MANUFACTURED ARTICLES USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS 23d overdue
18522038 STAGE ACTUATOR PARTICLE SHIELD BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES 46d
19071685 VARIABLE WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH
19001226 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED FEATURE INSPECTION AND ALIGNMENT IN SEMICONDCUTOR FABRICATION BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS
18986584 METROLOGY BASED ON TIME RESOLVED NON-ACOUSTIC SIGNALS KIM, KIHO
18611195 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR METROLOGY DATA ANALYSIS LE, HUNG VAN
18475684 BLUR REDUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL
18358495 LOG FILE AGGREGATOR AND DATA VISUALIZATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS MARINI, MATTHEW G

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18170792 DEFECT DETECTION IN MANUFACTURED ARTICLES USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS 23d overdue
18522038 STAGE ACTUATOR PARTICLE SHIELD BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES 46d
19071685 VARIABLE WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH
19001226 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED FEATURE INSPECTION AND ALIGNMENT IN SEMICONDCUTOR FABRICATION BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS
18991234 METROLOGY DEVICE NORMALIZATION CHANNEL HANEY, NOAH JAMES
18358495 LOG FILE AGGREGATOR AND DATA VISUALIZATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS MARINI, MATTHEW G

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2884 1
2877 1
3726 1
2872 1
2853 1
2671 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19071685 VARIABLE WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2025
19001226 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED FEATURE INSPECTION AND ALIGNMENT IN SEMICONDCUTOR FABRICATION BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS 2884 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 24, 2024
18991234 METROLOGY DEVICE NORMALIZATION CHANNEL HANEY, NOAH JAMES 2877 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18986584 METROLOGY BASED ON TIME RESOLVED NON-ACOUSTIC SIGNALS KIM, KIHO §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18894816 SUBSTRATE MAPPING USING DEEP NEURAL-NETWORKS PATEL, PINALBEN V §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2024
18611195 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR METROLOGY DATA ANALYSIS LE, HUNG VAN §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18522038 STAGE ACTUATOR PARTICLE SHIELD BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES 3726 §102§103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18475684 BLUR REDUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL 2872 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2023
18358495 LOG FILE AGGREGATOR AND DATA VISUALIZATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS MARINI, MATTHEW G 2853 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 25, 2023
18170792 DEFECT DETECTION IN MANUFACTURED ARTICLES USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023

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