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Examiner Hagan Sean P

2828-HAGAN-SEAN-P

Employment Information

Art Unit:2828 — Coherent light generators
Group:2810-2820 — Semiconductors A/Memory
Classes: 372 — Coherent light generators
438 — Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
257 — Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
Phone:(571) 270-1242
Email:sean.hagan@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:20 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

84
3-Year Grant rate: 45% over 174 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 84th

With Examiner Hagan, you have a 45% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hagan is a very hard examiner and in the 84th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hagan, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 2828

Examiner Hagan's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2828 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hagan 1.8
Art Unit 2828 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Hagan has granted 41 of 108 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 38%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Hagan has granted 38 of 66 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 58%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Hagan, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 53%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17644831 Laser Comprising A Distributed Bragg Mirror And Production Method Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17834037 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser And Method Of Manufacturing Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Abandoned View
17302099 Selective-Area Growth Of Iii-V Materials For Integration With Silicon Photonics Abandoned View
17594399 Semiconductor Laser And Material Machining Method Using A Semiconductor Laser Abandoned View
17432470 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Device Abandoned View
18224926 Hcg Tunable Vcsel With Optical Confinement Via Step Index And Regrowth Abandoned View
18207864 Optoelectronic Device With Vcsel Providing A Grid Pattern Abandoned View
18215200 Vcsel With Tunable Grating Abandoned View
17724570 Optical Semiconductor Device And Semiconductor Laser Device Patented View
17825587 High-Power Edge-Emitting Semiconductor Laser With Asymmetric Structure Abandoned View
17464765 Surface Light-Emission Type Semiconductor Light-Emitting Device Patented View
17445019 Wavelength-Tunable Light Source Device And Wavelength-Tunable Laser Element Control Method Abandoned View
18224867 Hcg Tunable Vcsel With Fully Oxidized Bottom Dbr (Gaas Based Vcsel) Abandoned View
17305778 Emitter With Variable Light Reflectivity Abandoned View
16764628 External Cavity Diode Laser Arrangement Abandoned View
18401307 Semiconductor Lasers Abandoned View
17423209 Method For Obtaining Electronic Devices And Electronic Devices Abandoned View
17357938 Multiple Metal Layers Within A Photonics Integrated Circuit For Thermal Transfer Abandoned View
17139230 Laser Diode Packaging Structure And Light Source Module Including The Same Abandoned View
17678293 Light-Emitting Device And Driving Device Patented View
16906067 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Diode (Vcsel) With Multiple Current Confinement Layers Abandoned View
17641968 Semiconductor Laser Device Structures And Methods Of Fabrication Thereof Abandoned View
17631524 Disc Laser Patented View
17428059 Optical Transmitter Patented View
17428873 Direct Modulation Laser With High Power Abandoned View
17460185 Vcsel Equalization Techniques For High Speed Optical Transmission Patented View
18468135 Emitter Array With Shared Via To An Ohmic Metal Shared Between Adjacent Emitters Abandoned View
17421467 Tunable Laser Abandoned View
17616044 Optical Device Abandoned View
17533578 Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser, Manufacturing Method, Distance Measuring Device And Electronic Device Abandoned View
17602630 Compound Semiconductor Layer Stack, Method Of Forming The Same, And Light-Emitting Device Abandoned View
17675512 Broadband Arbitrary Wavelength Multichannel Laser Source Patented View
17240620 Semiconductor Device And Method Patented View
17198111 Light Emitting Device Patented View
17619721 Variable Wavelength Laser And Control Method Therefor Abandoned View
17609721 Semiconductor Laser Device And External Resonance-Type Laser Device Abandoned View
17393067 Laser Die Packaging For An Rgb Light Source Abandoned View
17689079 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Device And Method For Manufacturing The Same Patented View
17269086 Vcsels Including A Sub-Wavelength Grating For Wavelength Locking Abandoned View
17854921 Semiconductor Device Abandoned View
17491650 Diffusor Lens, Light Source, Method Of Fabricating A Light Source And Method Of Illuminating A Scene Patented View
18061593 Optimizing A Layout Of An Emitter Array Patented View
18191966 Cleaved Coupled Cavity Amq Diode Configuration For Wide-Range Tunable Lasers Abandoned View
17673867 Laser Oscillation Device Abandoned View
17702454 Integrated Light Source Using A Laser Diode Abandoned View
17652657 Optical Modulator And Method For Manufacturing The Same Abandoned View
16768795 Method Of Producing Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser, Distance Sensor, And Electronic Apparatus Abandoned View
17256879 Optical Fiber Microwave Frequency Transmission Method Based On Laser Frequency Offset-Locking Patented View
17305140 Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Array With Integrated Capacitor Patented View
17425065 Substrate-Transfer Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser And Method For Manufacture Thereof Abandoned View

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