Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
AMO Development LLC has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 6 distinct examiners and 3 art units, showing broad examiner involvement within a smaller set of technical groups. This structure supports art-unit coordination, but it still requires examiner-specific response planning.
FARAH, AHMED M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner is the only identified point of repeated assignment in the profile, making those matters suitable for coordinated review. Counsel should still evaluate the remaining applications separately, while using the shared medical-device context to identify recurring claim construction or prior-art issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARAH, AHMED M | 2 | 78.9% | +18.9% |
| YANG, WEI WEN | 1 | 81.8% | +11.7% |
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 1 | 49.1% | +39.5% |
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.8% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 1 | 62.4% | +11.8% |
| FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 1 | 27.8% | +40.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923351 | PUPIL DETECTION METHODS IN OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY FOR DETECTING PUPIL IN EYE IMAGES CAPTURED BEFORE AND AFTER EYE APPLANATION | YANG, WEI WEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639919 | LASER EYE SURGERY SYSTEM CALIBRATION | ROANE, AARON F | — |
| 17643812 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISION USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER WITH PERIODIC LASER BLANKING IN CENTRAL AREA OF LENTICULE | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923351 | PUPIL DETECTION METHODS IN OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY FOR DETECTING PUPIL IN EYE IMAGES CAPTURED BEFORE AND AFTER EYE APPLANATION | YANG, WEI WEN | — |
| 18907307 | PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL DURING LASER-BASED REFRACTIVE INDEX MODIFICATION OF INTRAOCULAR LENSES IN PATIENTS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | — |
| 18900560 | APPARATUS FOR PATTERNED PLASMA-MEDIATED LASER OPHTHALMIC SURGERY | FARAH, AHMED M | — |
| 18607357 | Method and Apparatus for Creating Ocular Surgical and Relaxing Incisions | FARAH, AHMED M | — |
| 18545930 | LASIK CORNEAL FLAP CUTTING PATTERNS FOR BUBBLE MANAGEMENT | KISH, JAMES M | — |
| 17643812 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISION USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER WITH PERIODIC LASER BLANKING IN CENTRAL AREA OF LENTICULE | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 4 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18923351 | PUPIL DETECTION METHODS IN OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY FOR DETECTING PUPIL IN EYE IMAGES CAPTURED BEFORE AND AFTER EYE APPLANATION | YANG, WEI WEN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18907307 | PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL DURING LASER-BASED REFRACTIVE INDEX MODIFICATION OF INTRAOCULAR LENSES IN PATIENTS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18900560 | APPARATUS FOR PATTERNED PLASMA-MEDIATED LASER OPHTHALMIC SURGERY | FARAH, AHMED M | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18639919 | LASER EYE SURGERY SYSTEM CALIBRATION | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18607357 | Method and Apparatus for Creating Ocular Surgical and Relaxing Incisions | FARAH, AHMED M | 3792 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18545930 | LASIK CORNEAL FLAP CUTTING PATTERNS FOR BUBBLE MANAGEMENT | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 17643812 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISION USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER WITH PERIODIC LASER BLANKING IN CENTRAL AREA OF LENTICULE | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAMO Development LLC has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Ahmed M Farah has the most, with 2 of AMO Development LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
