Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rockley Photonics Limited has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, HAGAN, SEAN P, is currently managing 1 pending action. This distribution indicates that each of the 5 pending actions is being handled by a different individual at the patent office.
The portfolio shows a high degree of examiner diversity, as 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners. The workload is distributed across 3 art units involved in the prosecution of these semiconductor and optics technologies. This variety of examiners across 3 art units suggests that while the technology is focused within the semiconductors field, it spans multiple specialized examination groups. Practitioners should be prepared for diverse examiner perspectives, as no single examiner, including HAGAN, SEAN P, holds more than 1 of the 5 pending cases. This lack of concentration across the 3 distinct art units ensures that the portfolio's outcomes are not dependent on a single individual's review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 1 | 39.4% | +30.1% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 78.0% | +23.6% |
| NIU, XINNING | 1 | 82.6% | +4.8% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.9% | +31.6% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 37.5% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281760 | DEVICE COUPON | NIU, XINNING | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015026 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 188d overdue |
| 18310487 | DIALYSIS BIOMARKER MONITORING | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015026 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 188d overdue |
| 18485301 | MULTI-MODULE WEARABLE DEVICE | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 42d overdue |
| 18504097 | LASER | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18310487 | DIALYSIS BIOMARKER MONITORING | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 3 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18504097 | LASER | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18485301 | MULTI-MODULE WEARABLE DEVICE | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18281760 | DEVICE COUPON | NIU, XINNING | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18310487 | DIALYSIS BIOMARKER MONITORING | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 18015026 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 188d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRockley Photonics Limited has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Sean P Hagan has the most, with 1 of Rockley Photonics Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
