Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 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 the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, including PETKOVSEK, DANIEL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. All 4 pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit.
The use of 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending office actions indicates a decentralized examination process. Each case is being reviewed by a different individual, which requires the applicant to manage separate examiner relationships and adapt to their individual styles. This ratio of examiners to pending actions means that no individual examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio.
However, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit provides a significant level of procedural consistency. Since all 4 distinct examiners are within the same unit, they likely follow similar internal guidelines and supervisory oversight. The company can leverage its experience with the art unit to inform its responses across all 4 pending office actions. PETKOVSEK, DANIEL is responsible for 1 pending office action as part of this technical focus.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 1 | 83.5% | +9.4% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| LEE, HWA S | 1 | 72.3% | +3.1% |
| GEISEL, KARA E | 1 | 75.1% | +18.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18803312 | AUTOMATED FIBER PREPARATION AND WELDING METHODS AND SYSTEM | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | — |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18803312 | AUTOMATED FIBER PREPARATION AND WELDING METHODS AND SYSTEM | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18798540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VACUUM GRIPPER ASSEMBLY | KIM, SANG K | — | §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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