Examiner Menefee James A

2828-MENEFEE-JAMES-A

Employment Information

Art Unit:2828 — Coherent light generators
Group:2810-2820 — Semiconductors A/Memory
Classes: 372 — Coherent light generators
362 — Illumination
355 — Photocopying
257 — Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
385 — Optical waveguides
250 — Radiant energy
455 — Telecommunications
850 — Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., scanning probe microscopy [spm]
324 — Electricity: measuring and testing
349 — Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems
Phone:(571) 272-1944
Email:james.menefee@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

51
3-Year Grant rate: 76% over 67 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 51st

With Examiner Menefee, you have a 76% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Menefee is a medium examiner and in the 51st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Menefee, 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 Menefee's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2828 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Menefee 1.3
Art Unit 2828 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Menefee has granted 42 of 57 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 74%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Menefee has granted 9 of 10 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 90%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Menefee, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 22%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18145011 Light-Emitting Device Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18149778 Weak Index Guiding Of Interband Cascade Lasers Patented View
18185721 Distributed Feedback Laser With Complex Coupling Patented View
18001726 Light-Emitting Device Patented View
17998758 Semiconductor Laser And Semiconductor Laser Device Patented View
18029141 Semiconductor Laser Element Patented View
18056733 Semiconductor Disk Lasers With Microstructures Abandoned View
18311949 Discharge Electrode, Method For Manufacturing Anode, And Method For Manufacturing Electronic Devices Patented View
17910898 Optical Oscillator, Method For Designing Optical Oscillator, And Laser Device Patented View
18001320 Laser Diode Element And Method For Manufacturing Same Patented View
17920234 Light-Emitting Element Array And Method Of Producing Light-Emitting Element Array Patented View
17945086 Drive Circuit And Light Source Device Patented View
17914525 Quantum Cascade Laser Element And Quantum Cascade Laser Device Patented View
17911714 Optical Device Patented View
17924291 High-Reliability Low-Defect Semiconductor Light-Emitting Device And Method For Manufacturing Same Patented View
17995693 Managing Optical Power In Laser System Patented View
17654288 Radiation Field Generating System Patented View
17909681 Semiconductor Laser Element Abandoned View
17964289 Electroabsorption Modulated Laser Patented View
17911643 Surface-Emitting Laser Element And Surface-Emitting Laser Element Manufacturing Method Patented View
17946848 Light-Emitting Module Patented View
17899066 Laser Apparatus Capable Of Replacing Laser Patented View
17906360 Surface Emitting Laser, Surface Emitting Laser Array, Electronic Device, And Method For Manufacturing Surface Emitting Laser Patented View
17899925 Depth Obtaining Component And Electronic Device Patented View
17944213 Vertical Emitters With Integrated Final-Stage Transistor Switch Patented View
17982204 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (Vcsel) Emitter With Guided-Antiguided Waveguide Patented View
17906729 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Element, Method Of Producing Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Element, And Photoelectric Conversion Apparatus Abandoned View
17913424 T-Shaped Laser Pumping Device Patented View
17924311 Semiconductor Structure And Method For Manufacturing Same Patented View
18004639 Semiconductor Laser Device And Method For Manufacturing The Same Patented View
17963336 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Patented View
17916897 Light-Emitting Element Array Patented View
18043309 Self-Calibrating Driver Circuit Patented View
17922450 Strained Quantum Well Structure, Optical Semiconductor Device, And Semiconductor Laser Abandoned View
17913013 Seed Laser System For Radiation Source Patented View
18050063 Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Optical Pulse Shaper Patented View
17945271 External Resonant Laser Module And Method Of Manufacturing External Resonant Laser Module Patented View
17987821 Ultra Small Packaged Tunable Laser Assembly Patented View
17939992 Method Of Forming An Optical Aperture Of A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser And Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Patented View
17935351 Radio Frequency Slab Laser Patented View
17519954 Multicolor Illumination Device Using Moving Plate With Wavelength Conversion Materials Abandoned View
17491182 Magnetic Encoder And Roller Bearing Unit Having Magnetic Encoder Patented View
16953254 Light Emitting Device Abandoned View
17403382 Light Unit And A Lcd Liquid Crystal Display Comprising The Light Unit Patented View
17364359 Light-Emitting Apparatus Patented View
16741186 Tunable Pulse Width Laser Patented View
17365671 Metrological Scanning Probe Microscope Patented View
16859277 Illumination Device And Display Unit Patented View
17313652 Portable Light With A Laser Light Abandoned View
16689233 Solid State Imaging Device Patented View

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