Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trumpf Laser GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The record spans 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. NGUYEN, LAUREN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The pending work is distributed among several art-unit settings and separate examiner assignments. This creates a broad coordination requirement for laser, optical, circuit, or semiconductor claims, because related technical concepts may be evaluated under different examination approaches.
No examiner is identified with more than the stated 1 pending matter. Counsel can improve consistency through a central claim and disclosure map, but should prepare matter-specific responses that address each examiner’s cited references, claim construction, and preferred route to allowance.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 1 | 27.1% | +55.3% |
| LIU, CHRIS Q | 1 | 68.7% | +39.3% |
| ZHANG, YUANDA | 1 | 84.1% | +11.9% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18161904 | LASER SYSTEM FOR NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION AND GRATING COMPRESSOR | ZHANG, YUANDA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796349 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING COHERENT LASER BEAMS, LASER SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| 18418389 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WORKPIECE PROCESSING WITH A BROADENED LASER BEAM GUIDED BY A SCANNER OPTICAL UNIT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| 18408631 | PULSE MODIFICATION APPARATUS COMPRISING A PASSIVE CONVERSION DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR AMBIENT INFLUENCES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
| 18337079 | DEVICE FOR MACHINING A MATERIAL | LIU, CHRIS Q | — |
| 17588355 | METHOD FOR LASER WELDING A COPPER/ALUMINIUM CONNECTION | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796349 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING COHERENT LASER BEAMS, LASER SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| 18418389 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WORKPIECE PROCESSING WITH A BROADENED LASER BEAM GUIDED BY A SCANNER OPTICAL UNIT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| 18408631 | PULSE MODIFICATION APPARATUS COMPRISING A PASSIVE CONVERSION DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR AMBIENT INFLUENCES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
| 18337079 | DEVICE FOR MACHINING A MATERIAL | LIU, CHRIS Q | — |
| 18161904 | LASER SYSTEM FOR NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION AND GRATING COMPRESSOR | ZHANG, YUANDA | — |
| 17588355 | METHOD FOR LASER WELDING A COPPER/ALUMINIUM CONNECTION | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 3 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18796349 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING COHERENT LASER BEAMS, LASER SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18418389 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WORKPIECE PROCESSING WITH A BROADENED LASER BEAM GUIDED BY A SCANNER OPTICAL UNIT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18408631 | PULSE MODIFICATION APPARATUS COMPRISING A PASSIVE CONVERSION DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR AMBIENT INFLUENCES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18337079 | DEVICE FOR MACHINING A MATERIAL | LIU, CHRIS Q | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18161904 | LASER SYSTEM FOR NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION AND GRATING COMPRESSOR | ZHANG, YUANDA | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 17588355 | METHOD FOR LASER WELDING A COPPER/ALUMINIUM CONNECTION | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTrumpf Laser GmbH has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Lauren Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Trumpf Laser GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
