Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rockley Photonics Limited manages a company patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently includes 6 pending office actions, which are distributed among 6 distinct examiners. This arrangement means that every pending action is assigned to a unique examiner, preventing a concentration of prosecution risk with any single official. These examiners are spread across 4 distinct art units, reflecting the diverse optical and circuit technologies involved in the company's filings.
AMARA, MOHAMED K is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, AMARA, MOHAMED K is one of several officials each managing a single matter. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the 6 pending office actions may involve different specialized technical standards. Practitioners should monitor the 6 distinct examiners to ensure consistent messaging across the 4 art units engaged with the Rockley Photonics Limited portfolio. This distributed workload requires careful coordination to achieve favorable outcomes.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMARA, MOHAMED K | 1 | 75.8% | +29.8% |
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 1 | 39.4% | +30.4% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| NIU, XINNING | 1 | 82.6% | +4.7% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.8% | +31.7% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 38.7% | +24.5% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015026 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 188d overdue |
| 18983330 | OPTICAL SPECKLE RECEIVER | AMARA, MOHAMED K | — |
| 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 5 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 |
| 18983330 | OPTICAL SPECKLE RECEIVER | AMARA, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18504097 | LASER | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18310487 | DIALYSIS BIOMARKER MONITORING | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 2 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18983330 | OPTICAL SPECKLE RECEIVER | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18504097 | LASER | HAGAN, SEAN P | — | §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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