Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ZHANG, YUANDA

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2828

This examiner grants 84% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

84.1%
Allow Rate
+16.1% vs TC avg
1015
Total Applications
+12.3%
Interview Lift
910
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 981 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.2%
§101 Eligibility
27.1%
§102 Novelty
53.8%
§103 Obviousness
13.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18185423 LASER MODULE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18090630 LASER LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Panasonic Holdings Corporation
18005386 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
18097423 TUNABLE LASER HAVING RING RESONATORS WITH LOW Q Non-Final OA Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
18277509 LIGHT EMITTER Non-Final OA KYOCERA Corporation
17761999 MICROMECHANICAL OPTICAL COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18016276 PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SURFACE LIGHT-EMITTING LASER ELEMENT Non-Final OA STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
18321818 OPTICAL MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL MODULE Non-Final OA SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
17722384 SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTER AND LIGHT OUTPUT APPARATUS Final Rejection FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
18453033 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE Non-Final OA Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan
18348518 LASER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Gigaphoton Inc.
18336546 PLATED TRENCH FOR PARASITIC CAPACITANCE CONTROL OF VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER DEVICES Non-Final OA Lumentum Operations LLC
18466275 CAP HOUSING, CAP, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Non-Final OA SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
18228633 HIGH POWER GALLIUM AND NITROGEN CONTAINING LASER DIODE DEVICES WITH IMPROVED MODE QUALITY Non-Final OA KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
17559239 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND OPTICAL APPARATUS Non-Final OA Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
18347663 VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA WIN SEMICONDUCTORS CORP.
17989803 VCSEL ARRAY WITH IMPROVED OPTICAL PROPERTIES Final Rejection Korea Photonics Technology Institute
18547604 215- TO 222-NM WAVELENGTH LASER LIGHT GENERATING DEVICE Non-Final OA TOSOH SGM CORPORATION
18353406 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR QUARTZ ENHANCED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY Non-Final OA Pendar Technologies, LLC
18346911 3D LASER DEVICE FOR ULTRASHORT PULSES Non-Final OA TRUMPF Schweiz AG
18335149 LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Non-Final OA Phosertek Corporation
18335811 SLOW AXIS, OR SLOW AXIS AND FAST AXIS, WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING FOR LASER MINIBARS Non-Final OA Lumentum Operation LLC
18307812 SEMICONDUCTOR LASER EPITAXIAL STRUCTURE Non-Final OA VISUAL PHOTONICS EPITAXY CO., LTD.
18155035 SURFACE EMITTING LASER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME Final Rejection HLJ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

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