Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2828 2899

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.6%
Allow Rate
-4.4% vs TC avg
69
Total Applications
+57.1%
Interview Lift
1228
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 33 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0%
§101 Eligibility
21.0%
§102 Novelty
52.7%
§103 Obviousness
23.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18050987 DISPLAY APPARATUS Non-Final OA LG DISPLAY CO, LTD.
18001007 LASER LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18508233 DISPLAY DEVICE Final Rejection Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
17832092 LASER DEVICE Non-Final OA Samsung Display Co., LTD.
18086671 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND DISPLAY Non-Final OA SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
18078819 Laser Emitters with Integrated Thermal Sensors Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17973941 SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE Non-Final OA FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
17990475 TERAHERTZ WAVE-VISIBLE LIGHT CONVERSION DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Final Rejection REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
17723485 DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE Final Rejection FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
17579591 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND DETECTION APPARATUS Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
17982886 LIGHT SOURCE MODULE Non-Final OA Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan
17951000 NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT Non-Final OA Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan
18052377 Narrow Linewidth, Widely Tunable Integrated Lasers from Visible to Near-IR Final Rejection The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
17812196 Millimeter-Scale Chip-Based Supercontinuum Generation For Optical Coherence Tomography Non-Final OA The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
17876245 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OPTICAL SIGNAL Final Rejection Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
18080319 MONOLITHIC LASER ARRAYS WITH NON-UNIFORM LASER SPACING Final Rejection II-VI Delaware, Inc.
18068248 MULTI-JUNCTION OPTICAL EMITTER WITH MULTIPLE ACTIVE REGIONS ALIGNED TO MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS Final Rejection Lumentum Operations LLC
18266311 PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL SURFACE EMITTING LASER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA Kyoto University
18267245 NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE Non-Final OA Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
18253185 Radiation-Emitting Laser Diode, Method for Choosing Refractive Indices of a Waveguide Layer Sequence for a Radiation-Emitting Laser Diode and Method for Producing a Radiation-Emitting Laser Diode Non-Final OA ams-OSRAM International GmbH
17922024 COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOT LIGHT EMITTERS AND DETECTORS Non-Final OA IMEC VZW
17871230 NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER Final Rejection Luminar Technologies, Inc.
17759719 MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES Final Rejection nLIGHT, Inc.
18301989 LASER BEAM MODULE PACKAGE INCORPORATING STAMPED METAL FREEFORM REFLECTIVE OPTICS Non-Final OA Senko Advanced Components, Inc.
17522953 LiDAR System with Transmit Optical Power Monitor Final Rejection OPSYS Tech Ltd.
17878279 ELECTRICAL PULSE GENERATION BY SEMICONDUCTOR OPENING SWITCH Non-Final OA LightCode Photonics OÜ

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