Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 79.3% | +14.9% |
| NIU, XINNING | 1 | 82.9% | +4.0% |
| QI, ZHENGQING J | 1 | 68.1% | +12.2% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.5% | +23.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573341 | HIGHLY PARALLEL LARGE MEMORY HISTOGRAMMING PIXEL FOR DIRECT TIME OF FLIGHT LIDAR | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17612254 | ACTIVE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS FOR CHANGING ILLUMINATION WAVELENGTH WITH FIELD ANGLE | STOFFA, WYATT A | 37d overdue |
| 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 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573341 | HIGHLY PARALLEL LARGE MEMORY HISTOGRAMMING PIXEL FOR DIRECT TIME OF FLIGHT LIDAR | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 17765420 | STROBE BASED CONFIGURABLE 3D FIELD OF VIEW LIDAR SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING J | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
| 17612254 | ACTIVE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS FOR CHANGING ILLUMINATION WAVELENGTH WITH FIELD ANGLE | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2021 |
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