Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO is the busiest examiner for the university, holding 1 pending office action. The portfolio current activity is split between 2 different examiners and 2 different art units.
This means each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled independently in a separate specialized group at the USPTO. Since the busiest examiner, TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO, only has 1 action, there is no concentration of workload. The prosecution strategy must account for the unique requirements of 2 different art units and the individual styles of 2 different examiners in the semiconductors and optics field. Practitioners must manage 2 separate relationships and sets of examiner preferences across the 2 distinct art units.
The lack of concentration under TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO means that no single examiner habits will dictate the outcome of the entire portfolio. Strategy should be focused on the individual requirements of each art unit within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area. The 2 pending office actions represent a set of challenges across the USPTO. Each application requires a unique approach tailored to the specific examiner and the technical standards of their respective art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 81.9% | +11.8% |
| CHEN, PATRICK C | 1 | 82.5% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866870 | LINEAR ACCELERATOR SYSTEM | CHEN, PATRICK C | 33d |
| 19114879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF A SOURCE OF RADIATION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19114879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF A SOURCE OF RADIATION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF A SOURCE OF RADIATION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18866870 | LINEAR ACCELERATOR SYSTEM | CHEN, PATRICK C | 2842 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Richard Orlando Toohey has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
