Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orbotech Ltd. has 12 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 11 examiners and 11 art units, showing broad distribution with one repeated examiner or art-unit assignment within the supplied profile.
SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL is the listed busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner is the clearest concentration point, although the remaining actions are spread across separate examination relationships.
Because the examiner and art-unit figures are nearly aligned with the action total, most matters should be reviewed independently. The repeated assignment may support direct comparison of claim treatment, while the broader portfolio calls for consistent technical terminology without assuming uniform examination outcomes.
Counsel can maintain a shared record of cited art, amendments, and semiconductor claim constructions. Matter-specific responses remain important because the profile does not show a large cluster that would support a single portfolio-wide examiner strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 9 (69%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2 | 67.7% | +7.7% |
| LIN, CHUN-NAN | 1 | 87.4% | +15.6% |
| LU, WILLIAM | 1 | 71.7% | +8.1% |
| KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 1 | 89.1% | +12.0% |
| AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 1 | 76.6% | +22.9% |
| DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 1 | 79.9% | +16.5% |
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 1 | 83.5% | +32.5% |
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.8% | +12.7% |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1 | 82.0% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATOR DESIGN USING HYBRID ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR VOLTAGE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 18035283 | Multi Pattern Maskless Lithography Method and System | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 50d overdue |
| 18239005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED INSPECTION OF SURFACES WITH SPECULAR REFLECTION | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 16d overdue |
| 18039116 | Lift Printing of Fine Metal Lines | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
| 17422169 | Laser Printing of Solder Pastes | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 50d overdue |
| 18573214 | Improving Processing of a Flexible Circuit Board (CB) Using a Vacuum Plate Adapted to the CB Design | COOK, KYLE A | 31d overdue |
| 18426610 | NON-DESTRUCTIVE MULTIPLE LAYERS CROSS-SECTION FIB-LIKE VISUALIZATION | DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 16d overdue |
| 19006855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATOR DESIGN USING HYBRID ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR VOLTAGE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 18622193 | Multi-Modal Wide-Angle Illumination Employing a Compound Beam Combiner | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | — |
| 18039116 | Lift Printing of Fine Metal Lines | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
| 18315998 | UNIVERSAL DYNAMIC BEAM SHAPER | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18035283 | Multi Pattern Maskless Lithography Method and System | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2629 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATOR DESIGN USING HYBRID ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR VOLTAGE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY | LIN, CHUN-NAN | 2629 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18898124 | IMAGE FREEZING FOR PCB AND SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION | LU, WILLIAM | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 2853 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18622193 | Multi-Modal Wide-Angle Illumination Employing a Compound Beam Combiner | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18426610 | NON-DESTRUCTIVE MULTIPLE LAYERS CROSS-SECTION FIB-LIKE VISUALIZATION | DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 2637 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18573214 | Improving Processing of a Flexible Circuit Board (CB) Using a Vacuum Plate Adapted to the CB Design | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18477158 | MULTI-PHASE INTERFEROMETER FOR 3D METROLOGY | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18239005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED INSPECTION OF SURFACES WITH SPECULAR REFLECTION | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18039116 | Lift Printing of Fine Metal Lines | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 3729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18315998 | UNIVERSAL DYNAMIC BEAM SHAPER | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18035283 | Multi Pattern Maskless Lithography Method and System | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17981108 | PASSIVE DISPERSION COMPENSATION FOR AN ACOUSTO-OPTIC DEFLECTOR | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17422169 | Laser Printing of Solder Pastes | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialOrbotech Ltd. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 12 examiners.
Paul Daniel Schnase has the most, with 2 of Orbotech Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
