Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 5 examiners and 3 art units, indicating broad examiner involvement across a more limited set of technical units.
NGUYEN, LAM S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate recurring optics and device terminology across the portfolio while keeping each response tied to its assigned examination record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.9% | +0.3% |
| PAN, YONGJIA | 1 | 65.4% | +30.8% |
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 65.0% | +19.9% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.2% | +26.6% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17145472 | SPECTACLE LENS HAVING A DIFFRACTION STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 29d |
| 18505861 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OPTICAL COATING APPARATUSES | PAN, YONGJIA | — |
| 17406293 | INTERFERENCE LAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747800 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRINTING PARAMETER VALUES OF AN INKJET PRINTING DEVICE, A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR INKJET PRINTING AND AN INKJET PRINTING DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18505861 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OPTICAL COATING APPARATUSES | PAN, YONGJIA | 2118 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 17406293 | INTERFERENCE LAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2021 |
| 17145472 | SPECTACLE LENS HAVING A DIFFRACTION STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 11, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCarl Zeiss Vision International GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lam S Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
