Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
54 pending office actions • 30 art units • 51 examiners • 0 of 54 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 144 patents granted in the last 365 days
Essilor International has 56 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio spans 52 distinct examiners and 29 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution across both examiner relationships and technical examination units.
BROOME, SHARRIEF I is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner assignment is only one part of a much wider prosecution structure. The 29-unit distribution supports art-unit-specific monitoring, while the large examiner spread requires organized matter tracking and consistent portfolio-level guidance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 only | 2 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (11%) |
| §103 only | 17 (31%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 3 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 25 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 2 | 41.3% | -13.4% |
| BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 2 | 81.5% | +4.5% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2 | 66.5% | +22.5% |
| ADAMS, EILEEN M | 1 | 86.3% | +4.1% |
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 1 | 64.7% | +22.8% |
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.0% | +26.4% |
| JONES, JAMES | 1 | 88.4% | +4.5% |
| MEBRAHTU, EPHREM ZERU | 1 | 74.9% | +8.6% |
| DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1 | 70.2% | +25.9% |
| SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | 1 | 61.9% | +32.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876027 | POLARIZED LENS WITH COLOR ENHANCING PROPERTIES | JONES, JAMES | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18837835 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SIMILARITY SCORE BETWEEN A REFERENCE EYEGLASSES FRAME AND A PLURALITY OF MODEL EYEGLASSES FRAMES | LEE, JENNIFER V | 43d overdue |
| 17763060 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AT LEAST ONE VISUAL REFRACTION FEATURE OF A SUBJECT | GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA | 36d overdue |
| 18257917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MODIFICATION OR A CHANGE OF AN INITIAL MYOPIA CONTROL SOLUTION USED BY A MYOPIC SUBJECT | SHELDEN, BION A | 19d overdue |
| 18555652 | OPTOMETRIC TESTING DEVICE AND PROCESS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 4d overdue |
| 17917625 | OPTICAL ARTICLE WITH ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 2d overdue |
| 18559669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TARGET VALUE OF A PARAMETER MEASURED BY A PORTABLE DEVICE | HAGOS, EYOB | 7d |
| 17299549 | METHOD AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL LENS | MALIK, VIPUL | 26d |
| 17772371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PRESCRIPTION FOR AN EYE OF A PERSON | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 33d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555652 | OPTOMETRIC TESTING DEVICE AND PROCESS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 4d overdue |
| 19101038 | LENS ELEMENT | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
| 18998798 | FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL LAYERED STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL ARTICLE, EYEWEAR CONTAINING THE SAME, AND THEIR METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | — |
| 18874982 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | — |
| 18864146 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING AN OPTICAL PRESCRIPTION BASED ON DETERMINED VALUES OF A FATIGUE PARAMETER | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | — |
| 18255897 | PROTECTIVE LAYERS FOR TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE ELECTRODES IN ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES | WILKES, ZACHARY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 16 |
| 1744 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 1754 | 2 |
| 1742 | 2 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19127205 | CONTROL MODULE FOR ADJUSTING A VALUE OF A PARAMETER OF A FUNCTIONALITY OF AN OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL DEVICE, COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | ADAMS, EILEEN M | 2481 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19101038 | LENS ELEMENT | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18998798 | FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL LAYERED STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL ARTICLE, EYEWEAR CONTAINING THE SAME, AND THEIR METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18876027 | POLARIZED LENS WITH COLOR ENHANCING PROPERTIES | JONES, JAMES | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18984164 | LENS ELEMENT | MEBRAHTU, EPHREM ZERU | 2872 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18874982 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1743 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18864146 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING AN OPTICAL PRESCRIPTION BASED ON DETERMINED VALUES OF A FATIGUE PARAMETER | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | 2872 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18909056 | SYSTEM COMPRISING A HEAD-WORN DEVICE AND A HAND-HELD DEVICE AND CONFIGURED TO DETECT A USE OF THE HAND-HELD DEVICE BY A USER WEARING THE HEAD-WORN DEVICE | LHYMN, SARAH | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18854010 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BY MACHINING AN OPHTHALMIC DEVICE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18852965 | A METHOD FOR SURFACING A LENS BLANK WITH A CUTTING TOOL | SURYAWANSHI, SURESH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18899782 | EYEWEAR COMPRISING A SPEAKER ASSEMBLY | EASON, MATTHEW A | 2624 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18848819 | IMPROVED DETECTION OF AN OUTLINE OF A SPECTACLE FRAME | MCCULLEY, RYAN D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18846299 | LENS WITH IMPROVED VISUAL PERFORMANCE | CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18842427 | SYSTEM COMPRISING AN OPTICAL DEVICE AND A CONTROLLER | AYAD, MARIA S | 2172 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18837835 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SIMILARITY SCORE BETWEEN A REFERENCE EYEGLASSES FRAME AND A PLURALITY OF MODEL EYEGLASSES FRAMES | LEE, JENNIFER V | 3688 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18836095 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING AT LEAST PART OF A LENS ELEMENT | NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18730218 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18758116 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS, SUPPORT AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18749720 | FEDERATED LEARNING FOR SMART HEAD-WORN DEVICES | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 2144 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18717284 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MAKING A MOLD ASSEMBLY SUITABLE FOR MOLDING AN OPTHAHLMIC LENS | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18716091 | METHOD FOR ENCAPSULATING A MICROSTRUCTURED LENS BY COATING TRANSFER | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18712907 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH A REPRESENTATION OF AN EFFECT OF A SIGHTEDNESS IMPAIRMENT CONTROL SOLUTION | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 3686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18708934 | METHOD FOR ENCAPSULATING A MICROSTRUCTURED LENS BY PIPC | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18708895 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A RELATIVE PERIPHERAL REFRACTION OF AN EYE OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND OPTICAL DEVICE FOR CAPTURING IMAGES OF THE EYE | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18706169 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A RISK OF AN ONSET OR PROGRESSION OF MYOPIA | PORTER, RACHEL L | 3684 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18640760 | OPTICAL ARTICLE WITH A HOLOGRAPHIC WAVEGUIDE | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18701779 | LENS ELEMENT | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 2872 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18542166 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL LENS HAVING AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18566533 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POSITIONING A LENS MEMBER ON A MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | MCCONNELL, AARON R | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18560996 | OPTICAL LENS HAVING AN ASYMMETRIC MIRROR | CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18559669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TARGET VALUE OF A PARAMETER MEASURED BY A PORTABLE DEVICE | HAGOS, EYOB | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18555652 | OPTOMETRIC TESTING DEVICE AND PROCESS | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18371206 | Radiation-Curable Hard Coating Composition | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18257917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MODIFICATION OR A CHANGE OF AN INITIAL MYOPIA CONTROL SOLUTION USED BY A MYOPIC SUBJECT | SHELDEN, BION A | 3685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18255897 | PROTECTIVE LAYERS FOR TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE ELECTRODES IN ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18248447 | CROSSLINKED GEL FORMULATION | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18247973 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR EDGING OPHTHALMIC LENSES | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18044088 | LENS ELEMENT COMPRISING AN ACTIVABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18042253 | A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF A CHANGE OF A STATE OF FATIGUE OF A SUBJECT CARRYING OUT A VISUAL TASK | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 18065249 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LEVEL OF CERTAINTY OF A PATIENT'S RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS PERCEPTION OF A SUBJECTIVE MEDICAL TEST AND A DEVICE THEREFORE | SAX, STEVEN PAUL | 2146 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17918509 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLD | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 17918514 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN OPTICAL ARTICLE COMPRISING MICROLENSES | SANZ, GABRIEL A | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 17917625 | OPTICAL ARTICLE WITH ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17792545 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MODIFIED EYEGLASS FRAME MANUFACTURING DATA | DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 2199 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17787724 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE HAVING ADJUSTABLE FILTERING PROPERTIES | SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
| 17786767 | A DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHANGE IN THE VISUAL COMFORT OF A USER | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17786790 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE HAVING ADJUSTABLE FILTERING PROPERTIES | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17772371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PRESCRIPTION FOR AN EYE OF A PERSON | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2896 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 17765928 | Article with a Hydrophobic Surface Coated with a Temporary Super-Hydrophobic Film Providing Antirain Functionality and Process for Obtaining Same | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17763060 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AT LEAST ONE VISUAL REFRACTION FEATURE OF A SUBJECT | GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEssilor International has 54 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 30 art units and 51 examiners.
Christina Ann Johnson has the most, with 2 of Essilor International's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
