Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2 | 66.5% | +22.2% |
| VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1 | 62.0% | +21.1% |
| TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 1 | 86.0% | +4.2% |
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 71.7% | +13.7% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.9% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.2% | +8.9% |
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 67.0% | +19.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647121 | PROGRESSIVE SPECTACLE LENS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 27d |
| 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 | — |
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 5 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 17406293 | INTERFERENCE LAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 2853 | 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 | Final Rejection | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
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