Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Optilab LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified examination process even with a small number of pending matters. WONG, ERIC K is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, and he is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated under different technical classifications.
This variety in examiners and art units may lead to different prosecution timelines for each application. Because the 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, the company must manage two separate examiner relationships and styles. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the technical subject matter of the filings is distinct enough to be classified separately within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. WONG, ERIC K handles 1 pending office action, representing half of the company's current active matters.
Practitioners should be aware that the lack of concentration in examiners and art units requires a tailored approach for each of the 2 pending office actions, as there is no unified examination path for the company's current semiconductor and optics filings. This decentralized structure requires a coordinated effort to ensure consistency across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings. The involvement of multiple examiners and art units means the company must navigate varied examination styles for its current pending matters.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.5% | -4.0% |
| WONG, ERIC K | 1 | 83.8% | +7.6% |
| REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 1 | 57.5% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749225 | NON-INTERFEROMETRIC THIN FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE MODULATOR FOR DATA TRANSMISSION | WONG, ERIC K | 15d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19454004 | THIN-FILM LITHIUM-NIOBATE (TFLN)-BASED MODULATOR FOR FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES AND OTHER APPLICATIONS | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18741501 | OPTICALLY ISOLATED LIGHTWAVE CURRENT SENSOR | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19454004 | THIN-FILM LITHIUM-NIOBATE (TFLN)-BASED MODULATOR FOR FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES AND OTHER APPLICATIONS | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2026 |
| 18749225 | NON-INTERFEROMETRIC THIN FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE MODULATOR FOR DATA TRANSMISSION | WONG, ERIC K | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18741501 | OPTICALLY ISOLATED LIGHTWAVE CURRENT SENSOR | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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