Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carl Zeiss AG is currently addressing 8 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All these actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentration of technical subject matter. Despite this concentration, the company deals with 7 distinct examiners, suggesting a variety of individual review styles within that 1 unit. This high number of examiners relative to the pending workload indicates a fragmented review process.
The busiest examiner, MUHAMMAD, KEY, is managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. With 8 pending office actions in total, the work is spread across MUHAMMAD, KEY and the other distinct examiners. This ratio of 7 distinct examiners to the total workload indicates that Carl Zeiss AG must maintain a flexible prosecution strategy to satisfy the diverse requirements of the examiners assigned to the applications. Practitioners should prepare for 7 distinct examiner perspectives when addressing the applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2 | 64.0% | +23.9% |
| RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | 1 | 81.0% | +13.9% |
| CRUZ, MAGDA | 1 | 87.1% | +9.7% |
| MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 1 | 66.9% | +19.7% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.7% | +17.9% |
| HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 1 | 90.3% | +5.1% |
| COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | 1 | 84.0% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244283 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 34d |
| 18878055 | REPLICATION METHOD WITH A CONTACT BODY | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | — |
| 18872697 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY | CRUZ, MAGDA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852011 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAMINATING COMPONENT OR A HOLOGRAM COMPONENT FOR PRODUCING A COMPOSITE GLASS, AND CORRESPONDING LAMINATING COMPONENTS, HOLOGRAM COMPONENTS, AND COMPOSITE GLASSES | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
| 18843603 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT TO CREATE A TILTED VIRTUAL IMAGE PLANE | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | — |
| 18874800 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE HAVING A CURVED GRIN ELEMENT | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — |
| 18942867 | Method of Using a Coordinate Measuring Machine to Measure a Workpiece | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244283 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 34d |
| 18878055 | REPLICATION METHOD WITH A CONTACT BODY | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | — |
| 18852011 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAMINATING COMPONENT OR A HOLOGRAM COMPONENT FOR PRODUCING A COMPOSITE GLASS, AND CORRESPONDING LAMINATING COMPONENTS, HOLOGRAM COMPONENTS, AND COMPOSITE GLASSES | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
| 18843603 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT TO CREATE A TILTED VIRTUAL IMAGE PLANE | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | — |
| 18395278 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY HAVING A PLURALITY OF IMAGE PLANES | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
| 18942867 | Method of Using a Coordinate Measuring Machine to Measure a Workpiece | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878055 | REPLICATION METHOD WITH A CONTACT BODY | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2024 |
| 18872697 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY | CRUZ, MAGDA | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18852011 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAMINATING COMPONENT OR A HOLOGRAM COMPONENT FOR PRODUCING A COMPOSITE GLASS, AND CORRESPONDING LAMINATING COMPONENTS, HOLOGRAM COMPONENTS, AND COMPOSITE GLASSES | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18843603 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT TO CREATE A TILTED VIRTUAL IMAGE PLANE | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18395278 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY HAVING A PLURALITY OF IMAGE PLANES | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18244283 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 10, 2023 |
| 18874800 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE HAVING A CURVED GRIN ELEMENT | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18942867 | Method of Using a Coordinate Measuring Machine to Measure a Workpiece | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
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