Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trumpf Laser GmbH is currently navigating 7 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing that the 7 pending actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. With 7 pending actions being handled by 7 distinct examiners, the portfolio currently sees the number of actions match the number of examiners, ensuring that no single individual's review style dominates the company's current prosecution outcomes across the 4 art units.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, LAUREN, is managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 7 pending actions and 7 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that each examiner handles 1 pending action. For the practitioner, this distribution across 4 distinct art units means that the legal strategy must account for the specific nuances of multiple technical classifications within the broader Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area, while also managing the individual expectations of 7 different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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% |
| CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | 1 | 49.1% | +33.3% |
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 1 | 26.7% | +51.2% |
| SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | 1 | 71.4% | +30.0% |
| LIU, CHRIS Q | 1 | 69.4% | +37.1% |
| ZHANG, YUANDA | 1 | 84.2% | +11.8% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.7% |
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 | — |
| 18408631 | PULSE MODIFICATION APPARATUS COMPRISING A PASSIVE CONVERSION DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR AMBIENT INFLUENCES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
| 18448203 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMIZED PARAMETER SET TO PERFORM A MEASUREMENT | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | — |
| 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796349 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING COHERENT LASER BEAMS, LASER SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| 18780536 | METHOD AND LASER SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES HAVING STABLE PULSE PARAMETERS | CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | — |
| 18408631 | PULSE MODIFICATION APPARATUS COMPRISING A PASSIVE CONVERSION DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR AMBIENT INFLUENCES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
| 18448203 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMIZED PARAMETER SET TO PERFORM A MEASUREMENT | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 18780536 | METHOD AND LASER SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES HAVING STABLE PULSE PARAMETERS | CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 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 |
| 18448203 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMIZED PARAMETER SET TO PERFORM A MEASUREMENT | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 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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