Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Dongguan Aier Opthalmology Hospital Co. Ltd.

Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Dongguan Aier Opthalmology Hospital Co. Ltd. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with a portfolio characterized by a point of interaction at the USPTO involving 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated prosecution effort. For a practitioner, this means that the intellectual property strategy for this entity is currently subject to the scrutiny of a regulatory path without the benefit of multiple perspectives.

PATEL, AREN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. For patent counsel, this means that the success of the current filing depends on the examination style of PATEL, AREN. Monitoring the specific preferences and past allowance rates of this individual is essential because there are no other examiners involved to provide a baseline for comparison.

The presence of a distinct art unit reinforces that the prosecution strategy does not currently require navigating multiple technical standards within the USPTO. This lack of diversity in the examination process simplifies the administrative burden but increases the reliance on an individual examiner's interpretation. Practitioners should prepare for a focused dialogue with the patent office that centers on the specific precedents established within the identified art unit.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, AREN 1 77.6% +17.2%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18099923 INTRAOCULAR LENS PATEL, AREN —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18099923 INTRAOCULAR LENS PATEL, AREN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3774 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18099923 INTRAOCULAR LENS PATEL, AREN 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 21, 2023

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