Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
69 pending office actions • 33 art units • 64 examiners • 0 of 69 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 163 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carl Zeiss AG has 17 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 17 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. The examiner count shows that each matter has separate examiner attention in the available record, while the lower art-unit count indicates meaningful technical-group concentration.
WINDSOR, COURTNEY J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries a repeated concentration, so examiner-specific patterns may be less useful than art-unit-level organization.
The 7 art units provide a practical structure for coordinating claim language, disclosure support, and recurring technical issues. Counsel should still preserve matter-specific analysis because examiner assignments are widely dispersed.
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.
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.
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 only | 3 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 12 (17%) |
| §103 only | 16 (23%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 33 (48%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOOHER, ADAM W | 2 | 75.5% | +9.1% |
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2 | 65.2% | +7.0% |
| LU, ZHIYU | 2 | 48.8% | +14.4% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2 | 84.7% | +8.1% |
| NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
| AMARA, MOHAMED K | 1 | 75.8% | +29.7% |
| SHIMELES, BEZAWIT NOLAWI | 1 | 90.0% | +0.0% |
| ALAVI, AMIR | 1 | 93.6% | +3.8% |
| ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | 1 | 68.9% | +13.5% |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18360197 | Fastening an object to a manipulator and/or to an object holder in a particle beam apparatus | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 46d overdue |
| 19072433 | VIRTUAL STAINING BASED ON MULTIPLE SETS OF IMAGING DATA HAVING MULTIPLE PHASE CONTRASTS | SHIMELES, BEZAWIT NOLAWI | — |
| 17974702 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SAMPLE ON AN OBJECT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18109304 | Beam Splitter Assembly, Method for the Dimensioning Thereof and Microscope | GAGNON, GRANT A | 73d overdue |
| 18419776 | MICROSCOPE WITH AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL BEAM PATH | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 45d overdue |
| 18240461 | TRAINING OF INSTANT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS WITH PARTIALLY ANNOTATED IMAGES | LU, ZHIYU | 44d overdue |
| 18674410 | RELEASABLY COUPLABLE DIGITAL STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, SYSTEM HAVING SAME, AND DIGITAL SURGICAL MICROSCOPE | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 35d overdue |
| 18696845 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 5d overdue |
| 18304266 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING MICROSCOPIC SAMPLES | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 21d |
| 17318330 | CONTROLLER FOR AN ELECTRICAL DRIVE UNIT OF AN OPHTHALMOSURGICAL HANDPIECE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME, OPHTHALMOSURGICAL APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 29d |
| 17190514 | INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240461 | TRAINING OF INSTANT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS WITH PARTIALLY ANNOTATED IMAGES | LU, ZHIYU | 44d overdue |
| 17938123 | COLLISION PROTECTION FOR A MICROSCOPE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 30d |
| 19219210 | Microscopy System and Method for Analyzing an Overview Image | AMARA, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18939071 | METHOD AND OPTICAL DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING FRAMES USING A PLURALITY OF DETECTION CHANNELS | ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | — |
| 19044408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OF AT LEAST A PARTIAL SECTION OF A ROW OF TEETH, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND MIRROR ELEMENT | LU, ZHIYU | — |
| 18849601 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 16 |
| 2881 | 6 |
| 2871 | 3 |
| 3771 | 3 |
| 3774 | 3 |
| 2882 | 3 |
| 2661 | 2 |
| 2662 | 2 |
| 2665 | 2 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219210 | Microscopy System and Method for Analyzing an Overview Image | AMARA, MOHAMED K | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19078474 | Multimodal Microscope and Microscopy Method | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19072433 | VIRTUAL STAINING BASED ON MULTIPLE SETS OF IMAGING DATA HAVING MULTIPLE PHASE CONTRASTS | SHIMELES, BEZAWIT NOLAWI | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18979828 | Method for ascertaining offset values of an immersion objective of an image-creating optical system, and arrangement and computer program | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18953972 | CELL COUNTING OR CELL CONFLUENCE WITH RESCALED INPUT IMAGES | ALAVI, AMIR | 2668 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18939071 | METHOD AND OPTICAL DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING FRAMES USING A PLURALITY OF DETECTION CHANNELS | ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18910644 | PARTICLE BEAM SYSTEM WITH COOLING SYSTEM | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18899097 | INSTANCE SEGMENTATION USING OVERLAPPING TILES AND OVERLAP HANDLING | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | CHEN, XUEMEI G | 2661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18821023 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE OF A SAMPLE | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | 2662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18804614 | ILLUMINATION UNIT FOR AN OPTICAL MICROSCOPE AND METHOD FOR THE USE THEREOF | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18782171 | Microscopy system and method for processing a microscope image | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18419776 | MICROSCOPE WITH AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL BEAM PATH | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18519260 | Method and device for preparing data for identifying analytes | BITOR, RENAE ALLYN | 2663 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18519239 | Method and apparatus for assigning image areas from image series to result classes by means of analyte data evaluation system with processing model | PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA | 2669 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18240461 | TRAINING OF INSTANT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS WITH PARTIALLY ANNOTATED IMAGES | LU, ZHIYU | 2665 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18235529 | Microscopy System and Method for Testing a Quality of a Machine-Learned Image Processing Model | STORK, KYLE R | 2128 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18360197 | Fastening an object to a manipulator and/or to an object holder in a particle beam apparatus | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §102 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18360170 | METHOD FOR ATTACHING AN OBJECT TO A MANIPULATOR AND FOR MOVING THE OBJECT IN A PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18339316 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND MICROSCOPY METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE OF A SAMPLE | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 149d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18204593 | IMAGING, PROCESSING, AND/OR ANALYZING AN OBJECT USING A PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 2881 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18304266 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING MICROSCOPIC SAMPLES | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18109304 | Beam Splitter Assembly, Method for the Dimensioning Thereof and Microscope | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18102168 | Microscopy System and Method for Editing Overview Images | RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON | 2672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17974702 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SAMPLE ON AN OBJECT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17938123 | COLLISION PROTECTION FOR A MICROSCOPE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
| 17462234 | Microscopy System and Method for Monitoring a Learning Process of a Machine Learning Model | KAPOOR, DEVAN | 2126 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
| 19197529 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING THE ARTIFACTS GENERATED BY MOVING MEASUREMENT OBJECTS IN MEASUREMENT SIGNALS OF SWEPT-SOURCE OCT SYSTEMS | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19058224 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT PATIENT REGISTRATION ON A MEDICAL VISUALIZATION SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL VISUALIZATION SYSTEM | BASHIR, ADEEL | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19044408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OF AT LEAST A PARTIAL SECTION OF A ROW OF TEETH, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND MIRROR ELEMENT | LU, ZHIYU | 2665 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18970384 | LASER INSTRUMENT FOR EYE THERAPY | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18694856 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR RECALIBRATING THE FOCUS OF AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SYSTEM FOR INTRAOCULAR LASER TREATMENT | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18945685 | PRIORITIZATION OF MULTIPLE OBJECTS IN AN ASSISTANCE FUNCTIONALITY FOR A SURGICAL MICROSCOPY SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18939271 | INTRAOCULAR LENS HAVING A MEDICAMENT RESERVOIR | NGUYEN, TUAN VAN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18919208 | SURGICAL OPERATING SYSTEM, SURGICAL TOOL AND METHOD FOR SAFEGUARDING A SURGICAL OPERATION | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18906422 | SYSTEM FOR VISUALIZING OCT SIGNALS | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18789935 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONTROL DATA FOR THE SURGICAL CORRECTION OF THE DEFECTIVE EYE VISION | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18784873 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPTICAL AXIS OF A MAIN OBSERVER CAMERA OF A MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT IN A REFERENCE COORDINATE SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18716626 | FLUID TRACKING IN WET AMD PATIENTS USING THICKNESS CHANGE ANALYSIS | SANZ, GABRIEL A | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18674410 | RELEASABLY COUPLABLE DIGITAL STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, SYSTEM HAVING SAME, AND DIGITAL SURGICAL MICROSCOPE | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 3631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18654806 | OPERATING ELEMENT FOR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL DEVICES, WITH TARGETED BLOCKING AND/OR ENABLING OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONS | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18698824 | PLANNING DEVICE FOR GENERATING CONTROL DATA FOR A LASER DEVICE OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR REFRACTIVE CORRECTION OF AN EYE, TREATMENT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTROL DATA AND METHOD FOR REFRACTIVE CORRECTION | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18696845 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18478048 | PHYSICAL AUGMENTATION OF PATIENT DATA FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM | 2146 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18476245 | PHYSICAL IOL POSITION DETERMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DIFFERENT INTRAOCULAR LENS TYPES | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 3771 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18238445 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING UNIT FOR PREPARING OBSERVATION OF FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, METHOD FOR OBSERVING FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, AND OPTICAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 2188 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18317996 | Method for operating a medical radiation therapy arrangement, and medical radiation therapy arrangement | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 18252249 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL IMPLANT WITH DIGITAL PRODUCT IDENTIFIER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18035595 | ALIGNMENT GUIDANCE USER INTERFACE SYSTEM | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18251065 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING OPTICAL ABERRATIONS AND/OR THE TOPOGRAPHY, AND/OR RECORDING REFERENCE IMAGES OF AN EYE | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCarl Zeiss AG has 69 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 33 art units and 64 examiners.
Adam W Booher has the most, with 2 of Carl Zeiss AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
