Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 58.6% | +29.8% |
| YANG, WEI WEN | 1 | 81.9% | +11.0% |
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 1 | 49.1% | +39.6% |
| WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HUH, VYNN V | 1 | 61.2% | +44.0% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.9% | +25.4% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 1 | 62.2% | +12.3% |
| MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 50.0% | +35.4% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888079 | SINGLE-PIECE PATIENT INTERFACE DEVICE FOR OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | — |
| 18545930 | LASIK CORNEAL FLAP CUTTING PATTERNS FOR BUBBLE MANAGEMENT | KISH, JAMES M | — |
| 18151399 | LASER CATARACT SURGERY USING SPIRAL LENS SEGMENTATION PATTERN | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18951058 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISION USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER WITH OPTIMIZED PULSE ENERGY AND SCAN LINE STEPS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18771735 | CONFOCAL LASER EYE SURGERY SYSTEM | HUH, VYNN V | — |
| 18737900 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISIONS WITH TRANSITION ZONES IN LASER-ASSISTED OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURES | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| 18545930 | LASIK CORNEAL FLAP CUTTING PATTERNS FOR BUBBLE MANAGEMENT | KISH, JAMES M | — |
| 18151399 | LASER CATARACT SURGERY USING SPIRAL LENS SEGMENTATION PATTERN | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18951058 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISION USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER WITH OPTIMIZED PULSE ENERGY AND SCAN LINE STEPS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18923351 | PUPIL DETECTION METHODS IN OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY FOR DETECTING PUPIL IN EYE IMAGES CAPTURED BEFORE AND AFTER EYE APPLANATION | YANG, WEI WEN | — | §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 |
| 18888079 | SINGLE-PIECE PATIENT INTERFACE DEVICE FOR OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18771735 | CONFOCAL LASER EYE SURGERY SYSTEM | HUH, VYNN V | 3792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18737900 | CORNEAL LENTICULAR INCISIONS WITH TRANSITION ZONES IN LASER-ASSISTED OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURES | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18545930 | LASIK CORNEAL FLAP CUTTING PATTERNS FOR BUBBLE MANAGEMENT | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18151399 | LASER CATARACT SURGERY USING SPIRAL LENS SEGMENTATION PATTERN | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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