Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
86% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PERSAUD, DEORAM 1 76.7% +11.8%
JUNG, JONATHAN Y 1 72.1% +18.1%
KIM, RICHARD H 1 81.7% +5.0%
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 1 80.8% +18.0%
AHVAZI, BIJAN 1 63.5% +46.7%
FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N 1 48.2% +33.6%
CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 1 80.0% +14.0%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17427416 FUNCTIONALIZED WAVEGUIDE FOR A DETECTOR SYSTEM CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 4d overdue
18558697 ILLUMINATION MODULE FOR ILLUMINATING A SURFACE AND IMAGE GENERATOR UNIT HAVING SUCH AN ILLUMINATION MODULE KIM, RICHARD H 29d
18244283 WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 34d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17427416 FUNCTIONALIZED WAVEGUIDE FOR A DETECTOR SYSTEM CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 4d overdue
17600857 DEVICES FOR PRODUCING LUMINOUS DISTRIBUTIONS WITH OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N 33d
18654290 WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR ARRANGEMENT IN THE BEAM PATH OF A HEAD-UP DISPLAY COMPRISING A HOLOGRAPHIC ARRANGEMENT AS SOLE ABERRATION CORRECTION ELEMENT JUNG, JONATHAN Y 34d
18244283 WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 34d
18835571 DEVICE FOR REPLICATING A MASTER HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH VARIABLE ILLUMINATION PERSAUD, DEORAM 40d
18457190 ACETALS OF TRICYCLODECANE ALCOHOLS AS IMMERSION LIQUID MEDIA AHVAZI, BIJAN 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2871 2
2882 1
2872 1
1763 1
2875 1
2874 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18835571 DEVICE FOR REPLICATING A MASTER HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH VARIABLE ILLUMINATION PERSAUD, DEORAM 2882 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18654290 WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR ARRANGEMENT IN THE BEAM PATH OF A HEAD-UP DISPLAY COMPRISING A HOLOGRAPHIC ARRANGEMENT AS SOLE ABERRATION CORRECTION ELEMENT JUNG, JONATHAN Y 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 03, 2024
18558697 ILLUMINATION MODULE FOR ILLUMINATING A SURFACE AND IMAGE GENERATOR UNIT HAVING SUCH AN ILLUMINATION MODULE KIM, RICHARD H 2871 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18244283 WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2872 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 10, 2023
18457190 ACETALS OF TRICYCLODECANE ALCOHOLS AS IMMERSION LIQUID MEDIA AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Aug 28, 2023
17600857 DEVICES FOR PRODUCING LUMINOUS DISTRIBUTIONS WITH OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N 2875 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Oct 01, 2021
17427416 FUNCTIONALIZED WAVEGUIDE FOR A DETECTOR SYSTEM CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 2874 §112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 30, 2021

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