Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH maintains 9 pending office actions, primarily focused in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This volume of work is spread across 8 distinct examiners, suggesting a broad distribution of technical review.
The portfolio is active within 3 distinct art units, showing that the current workload is concentrated in a few specialized administrative groups. WILKES, ZACHARY W is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions.
The ratio of 9 pending office actions to 8 distinct examiners indicates that most examiners are handling only one matter each, with the exception of WILKES, ZACHARY W. This distribution across 3 distinct art units within Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics allows the company to engage with multiple examination perspectives simultaneously. For a practitioner, the presence of 8 distinct examiners means that prosecution strategies may need to be customized for eight different individuals. However, the concentration in 3 distinct art units suggests that the underlying technology is relatively consistent.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2 | 66.6% | +22.4% |
| VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1 | 62.4% | +20.9% |
| TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 1 | 86.6% | +4.1% |
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 70.9% | +14.6% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.2% |
| PAN, YONGJIA | 1 | 65.2% | +31.0% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.3% | +9.8% |
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 67.0% | +21.9% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.0% | +26.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647121 | PROGRESSIVE SPECTACLE LENS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 27d |
| 18323517 | SPECTACLE LENS DESIGN, SPECTACLE LENS KIT, DATA SET, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DESIGNING A SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS | PICHLER, MARIN | 55d |
| 19004709 | SET OF VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION DATA OF A SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING SUCH | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | — |
| 18777948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE VISUAL PARAMETER | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
| 18505861 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OPTICAL COATING APPARATUSES | PAN, YONGJIA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17721630 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR INDIVIDUALISING A SPECTACLE FRAME ELEMENT BY DETERMINING A PARAMETRIC SUBSTITUTION MODEL OF A SPECTACLE FRAME ELEMENT, AND DEVICE AND SYSTEMS USING SUCH A METHOD | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 71d overdue |
| 18647121 | PROGRESSIVE SPECTACLE LENS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 27d |
| 17145472 | SPECTACLE LENS HAVING A DIFFRACTION STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 29d |
| 19200063 | A MOLD APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS AND RELEVANT METHODS | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | — |
| 18777948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE VISUAL PARAMETER | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
| 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 | 5 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200063 | A MOLD APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS AND RELEVANT METHODS | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19004709 | SET OF VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION DATA OF A SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING SUCH | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18777948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE VISUAL PARAMETER | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18647121 | PROGRESSIVE SPECTACLE LENS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18505861 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OPTICAL COATING APPARATUSES | PAN, YONGJIA | 2118 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18323517 | SPECTACLE LENS DESIGN, SPECTACLE LENS KIT, DATA SET, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DESIGNING A SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 17721630 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR INDIVIDUALISING A SPECTACLE FRAME ELEMENT BY DETERMINING A PARAMETRIC SUBSTITUTION MODEL OF A SPECTACLE FRAME ELEMENT, AND DEVICE AND SYSTEMS USING SUCH A METHOD | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §102 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17406293 | INTERFERENCE LAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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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