Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
nLIGHT-Wiley operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm has managed 222 career applications and currently oversees 4 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 99.43. On average, the firm receives 3.9 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.
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.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, CHRIS H | 2 | 53.2% | +9.4% |
| AZAD, MD ABUL K | 1 | 81.5% | +20.9% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.2% | +17.1% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1 | 69.8% | +47.5% |
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 | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 5d |
| 18696775 | SELECTABLE GAUSSIAN AND RING BEAM CHARACTERISTICS | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 5d |
| 18807712 | SCANNER CALIBRATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NLIGHT, INC. | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2828 | 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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 | |
| 18671882 | ALL FIBER ADJUSTABLE BEAM SHAPING | Nlight, Inc. | CHU, CHRIS H | 2874 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18671923 | ALL FIBER ADJUSTABLE BEAM SHAPING | Nlight, Inc. | CHU, CHRIS H | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 | |
| 18696775 | SELECTABLE GAUSSIAN AND RING BEAM CHARACTERISTICS | Nlight, Inc. | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2882 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | Nlight, Inc. | JORDAN, ANDREW | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 17759719 | MULTI-BAND PUMPING OF DOPED FIBER SOURCES | Nlight, Inc. | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
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