Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acucela Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that the outstanding prosecution work spans multiple examination assignments within the technology area.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the busiest-examiner figure is limited to 1 while the portfolio has 5 pending actions, prosecution attention is spread across the examiner group rather than concentrated with one examiner. Counsel should track each assignment separately and tailor responses to the applicable art unit.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 88.2% | +6.8% |
| LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 1 | 76.4% | +40.1% |
| TRA, TUYEN Q | 1 | 85.6% | +9.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985550 | ELECTRONIC CASE FOR ELECTRONIC SPECTACLES | ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952067 | OPTICAL DESIGNS OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS TO DECREASE MYOPIA PROGRESSION | TRA, TUYEN Q | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING REFRACTIVE ERROR OF THE EYE | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985550 | ELECTRONIC CASE FOR ELECTRONIC SPECTACLES | ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18972217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING REFRACTIVE ERROR OF THE EYE | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18952067 | OPTICAL DESIGNS OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS TO DECREASE MYOPIA PROGRESSION | TRA, TUYEN Q | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAcucela Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
William R Alexander has the most, with 1 of Acucela Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
