Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 11 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orbotech Ltd. operates a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 12 pending office actions. Each of these 12 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, resulting in 12 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This distribution between actions and examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution experience across the pending matters.
The portfolio is further characterized by its distribution across 12 distinct art units. With 12 pending office actions spread across 12 art units and 12 examiners, the portfolio demonstrates maximum variety in its administrative and technical oversight. CHUN-NAN LIN is identified as the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action.
This data indicates that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the current pending workload. The 12 pending office actions are entirely unique in their examiner and art unit assignments. Practitioners must navigate 12 different sets of examiner preferences and art unit norms within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, as the busiest examiner, CHUN-NAN LIN, holds only 1 pending action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 8 (73%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, CHUN-NAN | 1 | 87.3% | +15.7% |
| LU, WILLIAM | 1 | 71.5% | +8.5% |
| KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 1 | 90.6% | +10.4% |
| AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 1 | 76.6% | +22.8% |
| DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 1 | 79.8% | +16.7% |
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 61.8% | +41.4% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.0% |
| ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 1 | 83.2% | +32.9% |
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.7% | +12.8% |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1 | 81.9% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 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 | — |
| 18212036 | WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC INSPECTION USING TILTED REFERENCE BEAM AND SPATIAL FILTERING | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 50d 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 | — |
| 18212036 | WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC INSPECTION USING TILTED REFERENCE BEAM AND SPATIAL FILTERING | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 18039116 | Lift Printing of Fine Metal Lines | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
| 18315998 | UNIVERSAL DYNAMIC BEAM SHAPER | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2629 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 2877 | 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 | Non-Final OA | 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 |
| 18212036 | WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC INSPECTION USING TILTED REFERENCE BEAM AND SPATIAL FILTERING | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 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 |
| 17422169 | Laser Printing of Solder Pastes | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2021 |
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