Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ram Photonics Industrial LLC has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket covers 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing separate examiner assignments with some art-unit overlap.
SIPES, JOHN CURTIS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports coordination around recurring art-unit issues, but it does not show an examiner concentration sufficient to support a common examiner-specific approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 1 | 78.0% | +19.1% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.5% | +10.3% |
| LEE, HWA S | 1 | 72.3% | +3.3% |
| GEISEL, KARA E | 1 | 75.2% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18798540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VACUUM GRIPPER ASSEMBLY | KIM, SANG K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749338 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING CLEAVE ANGLE METROLOGY FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER | LEE, HWA S | 40d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19217493 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH IMMERSION GRATING | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| 18798540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VACUUM GRIPPER ASSEMBLY | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 18119669 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF AN OPTICAL FIBER | GEISEL, KARA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19217493 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH IMMERSION GRATING | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 18798540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VACUUM GRIPPER ASSEMBLY | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18749338 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING CLEAVE ANGLE METROLOGY FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18119669 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF AN OPTICAL FIBER | GEISEL, KARA E | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRam Photonics Industrial LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
John Curtis Sipes has the most, with 1 of Ram Photonics Industrial LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
