Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 53.1% | +9.0% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.9% | +8.2% |
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.3% | +16.6% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.5% | +22.2% |
| KING, JOSHUA | 1 | 65.0% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271639 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY TO MODIFY NUMERICAL APERTURE OF A LASER BEAM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 83d |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271639 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY TO MODIFY NUMERICAL APERTURE OF A LASER BEAM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 83d |
| 18222949 | DUAL-SIDED OPTICAL PACKAGE | JORDAN, ANDREW | — |
| 17613926 | FIBER LASER INSENSITIVE AIMING LASER | KING, JOSHUA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NLIGHT, INC. | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18271639 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY TO MODIFY NUMERICAL APERTURE OF A LASER BEAM | Nlight, Inc. | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 17613926 | FIBER LASER INSENSITIVE AIMING LASER | Nlight, Inc. | KING, JOSHUA | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
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