Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Litron Patent And Trademark Office

Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Litron Patent and Trademark Office has 734 career applications in Communications and 5 pending office actions. The profile combines a defined application history with a small current docket.

The resolved allowance rate is 93.37%, and the average is 3.87 office actions per allowance. These measures describe the reported share of resolved matters reaching allowance and the examination activity associated with allowed cases.

Practitioners can use the pending count for immediate docket review and the historical figures for context when assessing prosecution strategy. Individual records are needed to explain the arguments or amendments underlying each outcome.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=734 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.4%
Allowance Rate
n=734
+0.49σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=734
3.9
OAs to Allowance
n=310
+0.22σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=310
1013 days
Time to Allowance
n=310
+7.4pp
Interview Lift
n=734
39.8%
RCE Rate
n=734
3.3%
Appeal Rate
n=734

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
91.0%
§102 Overcome
n=145
93.2%
§103 Overcome
n=236
93.3%
§112 Overcome
n=135

Specialization & Scale

H01F, H01L, H10W
Top CPC Subclasses
28%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=734
1
Practitioners
n=734
734.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=734

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (20%)
§103 only4 (80%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
60% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MILIA, MARK R 1 59.0% +22.2%
MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 1 85.3% +13.8%
KANG, ANNABELLE 1 90.6% -6.3%
LEE, MATTHEW Y 1 81.5% +18.4%
CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A 1 42.4% +7.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18198845 OPTICAL STRUCTURE AND THE METHOD TO MAKE THE SAME LEE, MATTHEW Y 15d
18585073 SPEAKER MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M —
18200581 PLANAR PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION MODULE KANG, ANNABELLE —

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18768046 RECONFIGURABLE OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ABOVEWATER OBSERVATION MILIA, MARK R —

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18198845 OPTICAL STRUCTURE AND THE METHOD TO MAKE THE SAME LEE, MATTHEW Y 15d
18768046 RECONFIGURABLE OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ABOVEWATER OBSERVATION MILIA, MARK R —
18585073 SPEAKER MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M —

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
UBRIGHT OPTRONICS CORPORATION 4
Id Water Co., Ltd. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26811
26941
26951
28721
28151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18768046 RECONFIGURABLE OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ABOVEWATER OBSERVATION Id Water Co., Ltd. MILIA, MARK R 2681 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024
18585073 SPEAKER UBRIGHT OPTRONICS CORPORATION MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 2694 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 23, 2024
18200581 PLANAR PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION MODULE UBRIGHT OPTRONICS CORPORATION KANG, ANNABELLE 2695 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2023
18198845 OPTICAL STRUCTURE AND THE METHOD TO MAKE THE SAME UBRIGHT OPTRONICS CORPORATION LEE, MATTHEW Y 2872 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 18, 2023
17859021 COMPOSITE QUANTUM-DOT OPTICAL FILM AND THE METHOD TO MAKE THE SAME UBRIGHT OPTRONICS CORPORATION CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A 2815 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 07, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Litron Patent And Trademark Office's patent allowance rate?

93.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Litron Patent And Trademark Office were allowed, across 734 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Litron Patent And Trademark Office average before allowance?

3.87 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Litron Patent And Trademark Office have?

5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.

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