Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Alcon Inc.

80 pending office actions • 32 art units • 76 examiners • 0 of 80 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 182 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

80
Total Pending OAs
56
Non-Final OAs
24
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

32
Hard (40%)
42
Medium (52%)
6
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (2%)
§101 + other4 (5%)
§103 only35 (44%)
§102 only2 (2%)
§112 only3 (4%)
Double-patenting only3 (4%)
Double-patenting + other5 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)26 (32%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

9
Life Sciences
11% of docket
1
Information Tech
1% of docket
2
Communications
2% of docket
9
Semiconductors
11% of docket
30
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
29
Business / Other
36% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

800 h
Manual time on pending OAs
160 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
280 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MORALES, JON ERIC C 2 85.5% +9.7%
HALL, DEANNA K 2 75.6% +15.7%
DEAK, LESLIE R 2 75.4% +17.5%
PATEL, AREN 2 78.3% +16.1%
CHIN, RICKY 1 68.1% +21.9%
BERNARD, ADRIEN J 1 81.3% +17.6%
NGUON, VIRAK 1 83.2% +19.0%
RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER 1 73.0% +40.3%
HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 1 70.5% +17.1%
LE, PETER D 1 80.2% +16.4%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19276547 METHOD FOR PRODUCING WETTABLE SILICONE HYDROGEL CONTACT LENSES BERNARD, ADRIEN J
19249245 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSERT PLACEMENT TO FABRICATE HYBRID CONTACT LENSES NGUON, VIRAK
19184053 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING PLATFORM WITH CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUSING MODE LE, PETER D
18959960 SURGICAL SUITE INTEGRATION AND OPTIMIZATION MORALES, JON ERIC C

Hard Cases (32)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18357435 OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL PROBE MENDEZ, KATHERINE H 17d overdue
18190191 SLOTTED TUBING SECURITY PLATFORM NG, HENRY 5d
17810698 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING CRUCIAL INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 14d
18974407 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRAOCULAR LENS SELECTION SZUMNY, JONATHON A 33d
18746527 MEMBRANE REMOVAL DEVICE WALKER, OLIVIA 43d
18337645 DIFFRACTIVE MULTIFOCAL OPHTHALMIC LENS WITH CHROMATIC ABERRATION CORRECTION NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 55d
19240362 BI-MODAL ULTRASONIC HANDPIECE SYSTEM RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER
19184144 CANNULA CLEARANCE HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN

Interview Candidates (12)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18585332 OCULAR IMPLANT AND DELIVERY SYSTEM DEAK, LESLIE R 83d
19299848 CORRECTING IMAGES FOR AN OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM CHIN, RICKY
19276547 METHOD FOR PRODUCING WETTABLE SILICONE HYDROGEL CONTACT LENSES BERNARD, ADRIEN J
19249245 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSERT PLACEMENT TO FABRICATE HYBRID CONTACT LENSES NGUON, VIRAK
19240362 BI-MODAL ULTRASONIC HANDPIECE SYSTEM RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER
19184144 CANNULA CLEARANCE HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN
19184053 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING PLATFORM WITH CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUSING MODE LE, PETER D
18781109 ARTICULABLE OTOLOGIC SUCTION TUBE AND SUCTION TUBE SYSTEM HALL, DEANNA K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3774 7
2872 5
3796 3
3792 3
3771 3
2877 2
3799 2
3783 2
3700 2
1742 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19299848 CORRECTING IMAGES FOR AN OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEM CHIN, RICKY DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2025
19276547 METHOD FOR PRODUCING WETTABLE SILICONE HYDROGEL CONTACT LENSES BERNARD, ADRIEN J §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2025
19249245 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSERT PLACEMENT TO FABRICATE HYBRID CONTACT LENSES NGUON, VIRAK 1742 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2025
19240362 BI-MODAL ULTRASONIC HANDPIECE SYSTEM RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2025
19184144 CANNULA CLEARANCE HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 21, 2025
19184053 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING PLATFORM WITH CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUSING MODE LE, PETER D 2488 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 21, 2025
19097437 ENHANCED DATA SECURITY AND ACCESS CONTROL USING MACHINE LEARNING ARYAL, AAYUSH §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2025
19081206 SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR MEMBRANE PEELING LYNCH, ROBERT A §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 17, 2025
19034869 SEALING DEVICE FRY, PATRICK B 3731 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2025
19020676 INTRAOCULAR LENS STORAGE AND LOADING DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE SEVERSON, RYAN J DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2025
19013156 OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL PROBE KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2025
18974407 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRAOCULAR LENS SELECTION SZUMNY, JONATHON A 3686 §101 Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 09, 2024
18959960 SURGICAL SUITE INTEGRATION AND OPTIMIZATION MORALES, JON ERIC C §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18914349 PERFORMING A CONTACT LENS CHECK BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2024
18909443 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POST-OCCLUSION SURGE MITIGATION LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2024
18897752 MULTIFOCAL OPHTHALMIC LENSES STRANSKY, KATRINA MARIE §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2024
18889875 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS AT A TRANSFER STATION OF A LENS INSPECTION MODULE BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 2877 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2024
18830318 OPHTHALMIC VIEWING SYSTEMS PINKNEY, DAWAYNE §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18830335 INTEGRATED INTRAOCCULAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGERY HARANDI, SIAMAK §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18828214 POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR VISUALIZATION OF VITREOUS OPACITIES HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 09, 2024
18825152 LASER ALIGNMENT SYSTEM CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 3796 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2024
18819041 EXTERNAL FIBER FOR OPTICAL FIBER DELIVERY IN OPTHALMIC SURGICAL DEVICES WONG, TINA MEI SENG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2024
18815973 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CORNEAL CROSS-LINKING WITH REAL-TIME MONITORING MORALES, JON ERIC C §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 27, 2024
18810796 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SURGICAL HANDPIECE AND MULTI-MODAL TIP BRUTUS, JOEL F §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18805430 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING OCULAR TISSUE CHARACTERISTICS MUHAMMAD, KEY §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2024
18800209 CALIBRATING THE POSITION OF THE FOCAL POINT OF A LASER BEAM KEFAYATI, SOORENA 2884 DP Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18795928 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING OPTICAL PARAMETERS WILKES, ZACHARY W §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 06, 2024
18781109 ARTICULABLE OTOLOGIC SUCTION TUBE AND SUCTION TUBE SYSTEM HALL, DEANNA K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18761871 PROXIMITY SENSOR FOR DIGITAL OCULAR SYSTEM TRA, TUYEN Q 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2024
18760157 BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PROBE WITH MULTI-CORE FIBER YAZBACK, MAHER §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 01, 2024
18753018 ERGONOMIC CHANDELIER ENDO-ILLUMINATION PROBE CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2875 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2024
18746527 MEMBRANE REMOVAL DEVICE WALKER, OLIVIA 3796 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 43d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18739885 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUBRETINAL DELIVERY MENDEZ, MANUEL A §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 11, 2024
18731556 MONITORING UTILIZATION OF REUSABLE SURGICAL DEVICES WALSH, DANIEL I §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2024
18678916 METHOD FOR MAKING EMBEDDED SILICONE HYDROGEL CONTACT LENSES BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1749 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 30, 2024
18667003 VOICE-ACTIVATED CONTROL FOR DIGITAL OPTICAL SYSTEM PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18658669 METHOD OF IMPLANTING AN OCULAR IMPLANT DEAK, LESLIE R 3799 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18643964 OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES BASED UPON SETUP CONDITIONS MOSS, JAMES R 3792 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2024
18640931 N-SUBSTITUTED C6 CYCLYL CARBOXAMIDE COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF YOUNGBLOOD, WILLIAM JUSTIN 4100 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2024
18633987 IDENTIFICATION OF VISION DEGRADING SYMPTOMATIC FLOATERS EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L 2872 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18629779 OPHTHALMIC ENDOSCOPE UTILIZING NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY 3795 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2024
18616063 INTRAOCULAR LENSES WITH HAPTIC ISOLATING STRUCTURES TYSON, MELANIE RUANO 3774 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2024
18616060 INTRAOCULAR LENSES WITH ANTI-ANTERIOR CAPSULAR CONTRACTION FEATURE AND METHOD OF IMPLANTATION THEREOF PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2024
18610384 INSPECTION CUVETTE AND SYSTEM FOR USE IN THE OPTICAL INSPECTION OF AN OPHTHALMIC LENS GRAY, SUNGHEE Y 2877 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18606003 MULTIPLE CANNULA TROCAR ASSEMBLY CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18604926 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING APRACLONIDINE FOR OCULAR REDNESS RELIEF CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 14, 2024
18603351 AUTOMATED CONTROL OF SINGLE-CRYSTAL FIBER GROWTH PROCESS BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1714 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18592640 VISUALIZATION ROBOT WITH OPHTHALMIC SURGERY-OPTIMIZED KINEMATICS ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA 3618 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 01, 2024
18585332 OCULAR IMPLANT AND DELIVERY SYSTEM DEAK, LESLIE R 3799 §103DP Non-Final OA 83d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18581631 PRESBYOPIA-CORRECTING OPHTHALMIC LENS WITH REDUCED VISUAL DISTURBANCES MATHEW, SEEMA 3774 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2024
18432767 OPHTHALMOSCOPIC CONTACT LENSES MCGRATH, ERIN E 3771 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2024
18429551 WATER GRADIENT SILICONE HYDROGEL CONTACT LENSES LEE, MATTHEW Y 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 01, 2024
18411341 CANNULAS FOR OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURES ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA 3781 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 12, 2024
18406978 THREE-LENS INTRAOCULAR LENS SYSTEM PATEL, AREN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2024
18543581 SELECTIVELY MOVEABLE VALVE ELEMENTS FOR ASPIRATION AND IRRIGATION CIRCUITS HALL, DEANNA K §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2023
18539701 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UTILIZING DATA OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS NAJARIAN, LENA 3687 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18536437 DISSOLVABLE POLYMERIC EYE INSERTS STEVENS, MARK V 1613 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 12, 2023
18536388 SALT ACTIVATABLE DISSOLVABLE POLYMERIC EYE INSERTS AND KIT OF THE SAME TRUONG, QUANGLONG N 1615 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18535263 INSTRUMENT FOR DELAMINATING RETINAL MEMBRANES MCEVOY, THOMAS M 3771 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 11, 2023
18527510 MODULAR IMPLANT WITH STABILIZATION FLORES, ADRIAN 3774 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2023
18557899 STABLE ISOQUINOLINE-CORTICOSTEROID CONJUGATES AND USES THEREOF BAUER, NICOLA MARIA 1621 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 27, 2023
18463168 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING INTRAOCULAR LENS PARAMETERS FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGERY USING AN EMULATED FINITE ELEMENTS ANALYSIS MODEL BROOME, SHARRIEF I 2872 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 07, 2023
18449776 INDUCTIVELY COUPLED FOOT PEDAL BATTERY CHARGING PRANTO, TAWHID MAHBUB §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 15, 2023
18357435 OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL PROBE MENDEZ, KATHERINE H 3771 §103§112 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18351401 VITREOUS FLOATER TREATMENT USING RESONANT SCANNER-BASED SLO HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. 3796 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2023
18349744 ACCOMMODATING INTRAOCULAR LENSES WITH TORIC SURFACE LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN 3774 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18344405 Azetidinyl Pyrimidines and Uses Thereof ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 1624 §102§103§112DP Final Rejection 12d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18337645 DIFFRACTIVE MULTIFOCAL OPHTHALMIC LENS WITH CHROMATIC ABERRATION CORRECTION NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 3774 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18321127 OPHTHALMIC RETINA CONCURRENT SEALANT MIXING AND ILLUMINATED ASSEMBLY AND METHOD VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 3783 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending May 22, 2023
18299029 OPHTHALMIC IMAGE REGISTRATION USING INTERPRETABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED ON DEEP LEARNING ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN 2663 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2023
18190191 SLOTTED TUBING SECURITY PLATFORM NG, HENRY 3741 §102§103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 27, 2023
18187275 INTRAOCULAR LENSES WITH NANOSTRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME SHARMA, YASHITA 3774 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18174469 COMMON PATH WAVEGUIDES FOR STABLE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING ABDUR, RAHMAN 2872 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18067165 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF FORMING OPHTHALMIC LENS COMPONENTS WITH SOLUBLE CORES AND MOLDS BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1741 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 16, 2022
18055656 ACHROMATIC IOL WITH MULTIPLE LAYERS OF DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS PATEL, AREN 3774 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 15, 2022
18054448 OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH A DMD CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE COLLARD JR, DWANE EDWARD 3700 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2022
17937974 MULTIPLEXING A LASER BEAM TO FRAGMENT EYE FLOATERS CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 04, 2022
17810698 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING CRUCIAL INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 05, 2022
17380992 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EYE CATARACT REMOVAL MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN 3792 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 20, 2021
16826828 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MATERIAL DURING AN OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURE USING AC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT MARCETICH, ADAM M 3700 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 23, 2020

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