Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brighten Optix Corp. currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. The examiner, ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE, is the busiest individual for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio's active prosecution is limited to this 1 action, the company's strategy is highly centralized under a single examiner's review. This focused activity within 1 art unit reflects a specific technical engagement in the communications sector.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very targeted approach to current patent prosecution. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can maintain a direct and consistent relationship with the patent office for this specific matter. This concentration of 1 action under ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends on the review of this single examiner. The focus on the Communications technology area suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on a specific technical disclosure within that field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | 1 | 63.9% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912880 | INTELLIGENT OPTOMETRY AND GLASSES FITTING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORTHOKERATOLOGY LENSES BASED ON CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY | ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912880 | INTELLIGENT OPTOMETRY AND GLASSES FITTING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORTHOKERATOLOGY LENSES BASED ON CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY | ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912880 | INTELLIGENT OPTOMETRY AND GLASSES FITTING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORTHOKERATOLOGY LENSES BASED ON CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY | ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | 2666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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