Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Veeco Instruments Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, indicating separate examiner handling with some overlap among examination groups.
GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because each examiner has 1 identified matter, counsel should coordinate the docket centrally while preparing responses for each application and art-unit setting.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1 | 77.7% | +25.2% |
| THOMAS, LUCY M | 1 | 62.4% | +17.9% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +13.6% |
| ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1 | 66.9% | -5.4% |
| BENNETT, CHARLEE | 1 | 58.8% | +35.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171798 | AN APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SOLVENT PROCESSING UTILIZED FOR 3D AND TRADITIONAL PROCESS FLOWS | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | — |
| 19052193 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK FOR ION BEAM DEPOSITION SYSTEMS | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| 18519548 | MULTI-DISC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION SYSTEM WITH CROSS FLOW GAS INJECTION | ZERVIGON, RUDY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17717679 | Rotating Disk Reactor with Split Substrate Carrier | BENNETT, CHARLEE | 77d overdue |
| 19171798 | AN APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SOLVENT PROCESSING UTILIZED FOR 3D AND TRADITIONAL PROCESS FLOWS | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | — |
| 19052193 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK FOR ION BEAM DEPOSITION SYSTEMS | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| 18824461 | DEPOSITION SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED CARRIER CLEANING MODULES | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 2 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171798 | AN APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SOLVENT PROCESSING UTILIZED FOR 3D AND TRADITIONAL PROCESS FLOWS | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19052193 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK FOR ION BEAM DEPOSITION SYSTEMS | THOMAS, LUCY M | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18824461 | DEPOSITION SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED CARRIER CLEANING MODULES | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18519548 | MULTI-DISC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION SYSTEM WITH CROSS FLOW GAS INJECTION | ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1716 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 17717679 | Rotating Disk Reactor with Split Substrate Carrier | BENNETT, CHARLEE | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVeeco Instruments Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Eric Wayne Golightly has the most, with 1 of Veeco Instruments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
