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| Art Unit: | 2828 — Coherent light generators |
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| 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 76% over 67 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 51st
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Menefee has granted 42 of 57 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 74%.
Examiner Menefee has granted 9 of 10 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 90%.
With Examiner Menefee, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 22%.
| 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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