Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sense Photonics Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are currently 5 pending office actions. This level of activity suggests an active prosecution pipeline for the company's optical technology, with multiple applications moving through the system at once.
The portfolio is distributed among 5 distinct examiners but is contained within 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while multiple individuals are reviewing the applications, the technology is concentrated in two specific technical areas at the patent office. This structure allows the company to potentially see patterns in how their technology is treated across different examiners within the same 2 distinct art units.
NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN is the busiest examiner for Sense Photonics Inc. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles a portion of the current workload, while the remaining actions are spread across four other distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that the portfolio's progress is not overly dependent on any single individual.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 78.9% | +12.1% |
| NIU, XINNING | 1 | 82.6% | +4.7% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
| QI, ZHENGQING J | 1 | 68.1% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044101 | CLOCKED ACTIVE QUENCH/RECHARGE AND GAIN CELL MEMORY PIXEL | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 23d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249576 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELF-ALIGNED VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSEL)-ARRAY BEAM SHAPING | NIU, XINNING | — |
| 17765420 | STROBE BASED CONFIGURABLE 3D FIELD OF VIEW LIDAR SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252376 | MULTI-WAFER INTEGRATED VCSEL-ELECTRONICS MODULE | MENEFEE, JAMES A | — |
| 17765420 | STROBE BASED CONFIGURABLE 3D FIELD OF VIEW LIDAR SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 2 |
| 3645 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18252376 | MULTI-WAFER INTEGRATED VCSEL-ELECTRONICS MODULE | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18249576 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELF-ALIGNED VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSEL)-ARRAY BEAM SHAPING | NIU, XINNING | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18044101 | CLOCKED ACTIVE QUENCH/RECHARGE AND GAIN CELL MEMORY PIXEL | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17765420 | STROBE BASED CONFIGURABLE 3D FIELD OF VIEW LIDAR SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING J | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
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