Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Robe Lighting S R O has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a small amount of technical concentration. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners, so each of the 3 pending office actions has a unique reviewer. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company cannot leverage experience with a single examiner to benefit multiple cases. The 2 distinct art units show a small amount of technical variety.
TUMEBO, TSION M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of work with any single individual. The 2 distinct art units mean that at least two of the actions are in the same technical field, but they are still being reviewed by different people. Practitioners must manage each of the 3 pending office actions as separate efforts with no shared examiner context. The small volume of 3 pending office actions suggests a targeted patent strategy within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 1 | 65.3% | +18.8% |
| KAISER, SYED M | 1 | 86.1% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300387 | EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300387 | EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300387 | EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19212296 | RANGE SENSING AND SAFETY SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | KAISER, SYED M | 2831 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRobe Lighting S R O has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jessica Mcmillan Apenteng has the most, with 1 of Robe Lighting S R O's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
