Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Seminex Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while each action is handled by a different examiner, some examiners are working within the same art unit. This distribution of the 3 pending office actions across the 2 distinct art units suggests a focused but multi-faceted approach to their patent applications.
Clara Grace Chilton is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are several pending actions in total, the workload is divided among the examiners, with Clara Grace Chilton managing 1 of the company's active office action responses. For practitioners, this means that the action under Clara Grace Chilton is part of a broader, decentralized prosecution effort. Success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area will require managing these distinct examiner relationships effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.5% | +0.0% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 52.5% | +11.7% |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 79.2% | +12.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000298 | ALINGAAS/INGAASP/INP EDGE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER INCLUDING MULTIPLE MONOLITHIC LASER DIODES | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 44d overdue |
| 18756252 | Coherent LIDAR using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18756266 | LiDAR using Multi-Junction Laser Diodes | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000298 | ALINGAAS/INGAASP/INP EDGE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER INCLUDING MULTIPLE MONOLITHIC LASER DIODES | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 44d overdue |
| 18756266 | LiDAR using Multi-Junction Laser Diodes | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18756252 | Coherent LIDAR using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18756266 | LiDAR using Multi-Junction Laser Diodes | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18000298 | ALINGAAS/INGAASP/INP EDGE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER INCLUDING MULTIPLE MONOLITHIC LASER DIODES | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSeminex Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Jonathan L Malikasim has the most, with 1 of Seminex Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
