Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: AMARA, MOHAMED K

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2800 2817 2877 2886

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.7%
Allow Rate
+7.7% vs TC avg
738
Total Applications
+30.0%
Interview Lift
931
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 699 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.5%
§101 Eligibility
9.1%
§102 Novelty
87.1%
§103 Obviousness
3.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18544947 DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR POLARIZATION DEPENDENT IMAGING Final Rejection Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
17578858 INTERFEROMETER OPTIC MATERIAL AND RELATED METHODS Final Rejection GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
18829173 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS WITH MULTI-WAVELENGTH EMISSION Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18026059 SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING AGENT Final Rejection DAICEL CORPORATION
18163766 HIGH-PRECISION AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENT OF PERCENTAGE LIGHT LOSS OF OPTICAL DEVICES Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
18844646 LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS Non-Final OA SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
18676822 Gas Absorption Spectrometer Final Rejection SHIMADZU CORPORATION
18706789 WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT METHOD Non-Final OA HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
18014701 INTERFEROMETRIC SCATTERING CORRELATION (ISCORR) MICROSCOPY Final Rejection Cambridge Enterprise Limited
18544117 Non-Contact Dynamic Displacement Measurement of Structures Using a Moving Laser Doppler Vibrometer Final Rejection UNM Rainforest Innovations
18100897 METHOD FOR OPERATING A MEDICAL MICROSCOPE, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT Non-Final OA Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
18848095 ILLUMINATION ARRANGEMENT FOR A METROLOGY DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD Non-Final OA ASML Netherlands B.V.
18419664 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC TEST AND TURN-UP OF OPTICAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
18905494 SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY CHIP ON A TEXTURED SUBSTRATE Non-Final OA Thorlabs, Inc.
18852873 LASER BASED GAS DETECTOR Non-Final OA Wi-Charge Ltd.
18573276 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE IN A SAMPLE HOLDER, AND A BIOPSY DEVICE FOR OBTAINING A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE OF TISSUE Final Rejection Clearstream Technologies Limited
18574020 ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ANALYSIS METHOD Final Rejection HORIBA, LTD.
18799823 EMISSIONS LOCALIZATION AND QUANTIFICATION USING COMBINED UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS AND CONTINUOUS MONITORING Non-Final OA SeekOps Inc.
18368000 Device For Monitoring Properties of A Laser Beam Final Rejection II-VI Delaware, Inc.
18736769 Relative intensity noise Cat's-eye swept source laser for OCT and spectroscopy Non-Final OA KineoLabs, Inc.
18737716 DEVICE MEASURING A PHYSICAL STATE OF A MATERIAL BY SPECTRUM AND A METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA FAIRTECH CORPORATION
18627060 RETROGRAPHIC SENSING Final Rejection GelSight, Inc.
18653489 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MATERIAL ANALYSIS USING MICROFLUIDICS, MACHINE VISION, AND LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY Final Rejection SDT Inc.
18515456 RADIUSED SENSORS FOR MEASURING PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE Final Rejection Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
18583597 PHOTOLUMINESCENT IMAGING OF SEMICONDUCTOR SAMPLES Final Rejection SEMILAB Zrt.
17380487 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE OF CERTAIN ATTRIBUTES IN A TEST ARTICLE Non-Final OA Niels Akhtari

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