Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH

11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (5)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (73%)
2
Easy (18%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (73%)
§112 only2 (18%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
9% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
8
Semiconductors
73% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HSIEH, HSIN YI 2 51.2% +5.8%
LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY 1 51.7% +9.5%
CHEN, CHIA-LING 1 44.8% +64.0%
WIEGAND, TYLER J 1 75.3% +8.6%
MUSE, ISMAIL A 1 86.5% +8.0%
NIU, XINNING 1 82.9% +4.4%
CHEN, DAVID Z 1 44.4% +49.5%
CAMACHO ALANIS, FERNANDA ADRIANA 1 52.5% +51.9%
VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 1 54.2% +38.6%
NELSON, MICHAEL B 1 21.4% +37.0%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17760965 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP COMPRISING A CONTACT ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP NIU, XINNING 32d overdue
17734035 µ-LED, µ-LED DEVICE, DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR THE SAME MUSE, ISMAIL A 30d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17054473 Method for Producing a Converter Element, Converter Element and Light Emitting Device NELSON, MICHAEL B 142d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17297688 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT HAVING A CURRENT DISTRIBUTION LAYER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 145d overdue
17054473 Method for Producing a Converter Element, Converter Element and Light Emitting Device NELSON, MICHAEL B 142d overdue
17442648 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING A DIELECTRIC LAYER AND A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CHEN, DAVID Z 132d overdue
18044391 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, METHOD OF OPERATING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND BIOSENSOR CHEN, CHIA-LING 16d
17437150 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE CAMACHO ALANIS, FERNANDA ADRIANA 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2828 3
2812 2
2899 2
2622 1
3645 1
2815 1
1787 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18954344 VIDEO WALL, DRIVER CIRCUITS, CONTROLS AND METHOD THEREOF LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY 2622 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18044391 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, METHOD OF OPERATING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND BIOSENSOR CHEN, CHIA-LING 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Mar 08, 2023
17777873 OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME WIEGAND, TYLER J 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending May 18, 2022
17734035 µ-LED, µ-LED DEVICE, DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR THE SAME MUSE, ISMAIL A 2812 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Apr 30, 2022
17760965 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP COMPRISING A CONTACT ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP NIU, XINNING 2828 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2022
17513475 µ-LED, µ-LED DEVICE, DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR THE SAME HSIEH, HSIN YI 2899 §112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Oct 28, 2021
17513398 µ-LED, µ-LED DEVICE, DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR THE SAME HSIEH, HSIN YI 2899 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2021
17442648 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING A DIELECTRIC LAYER AND A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CHEN, DAVID Z 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2021
17437150 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE CAMACHO ALANIS, FERNANDA ADRIANA 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 08, 2021
17297688 OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT HAVING A CURRENT DISTRIBUTION LAYER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 2828 §103 Final Rejection 145d overdue Pending May 27, 2021
17054473 Method for Producing a Converter Element, Converter Element and Light Emitting Device NELSON, MICHAEL B 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 142d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2020

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