Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
nLIGHT-Wiley focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and reports 5 pending office actions across 223 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 99.44%, so the recorded resolved portfolio has produced allowance in nearly all matters. The pending inventory is limited relative to the application base, which may indicate a comparatively contained current prosecution workload.
The average of 3.88 office actions per allowance shows that the strong allowance result has still involved repeated examination activity. For a practitioner, the combination points to an office-action process that can require sustained responses even when resolved outcomes are favorable. The allowance rate and action average should therefore be read together rather than treating the allowance result as a measure of procedural simplicity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (80%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZAD, MD ABUL K | 1 | 81.5% | +20.9% |
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.4% | +17.3% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.5% | +22.5% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1 | 70.4% | +46.0% |
| GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 1 | 51.4% | +26.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 5d |
| 18271639 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY TO MODIFY NUMERICAL APERTURE OF A LASER BEAM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 83d |
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — |
| 16427211 | LARGE OPTICAL CAVITY (LOC) LASER DIODE HAVING QUANTUM WELL OFFSET AND EFFICIENT SINGLE MODE LASER EMISSION ALONG FAST AXIS | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NLIGHT, INC. | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 2 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | Nlight, Inc. | AZAD, MD ABUL K | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | Nlight, Inc. | JORDAN, ANDREW | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18271639 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY TO MODIFY NUMERICAL APERTURE OF A LASER BEAM | Nlight, Inc. | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | Nlight, Inc. | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 16427211 | LARGE OPTICAL CAVITY (LOC) LASER DIODE HAVING QUANTUM WELL OFFSET AND EFFICIENT SINGLE MODE LASER EMISSION ALONG FAST AXIS | Nlight, Inc. | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 2828 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2019 |
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Start Free Trial99.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nlight-Wiley were allowed, across 223 applications in USPTO records.
3.88 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 5 examiners in 4 art units.
