Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shenzhen Berxel Photonics Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution profile for a portfolio of this size. The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, LAUREN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions and 2 examiners, each examiner is handling exactly 1 matter, ensuring that no single individual controls the entire pending portfolio.
The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions suggests that the company's technological focus within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area is broad. Each pending action is being reviewed under a different administrative framework, which may lead to different prosecution timelines or requirements. This distribution across 2 examiners and 2 art units provides the company with a variety of feedback from the patent office, reducing the risk associated with a single examiner's discretion. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 2 different sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards simultaneously.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| KING, JOSHUA | 1 | 64.9% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485794 | Programmable Structured Light Generator, Photoelectric Device Having Same, And Manufacturing Method | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| 18132414 | Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser and Manufacturing Method Thereof | KING, JOSHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18485794 | Programmable Structured Light Generator, Photoelectric Device Having Same, And Manufacturing Method | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18132414 | Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser and Manufacturing Method Thereof | KING, JOSHUA | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2023 |
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