Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Evolution Optiks Limited is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This indicates a multi-track prosecution effort at the USPTO. The portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's optical or medical technologies fall into different classification categories. This variety in art units means the company must be prepared for different levels of scrutiny and different sets of prior art references.
The prosecution is being handled by 2 distinct examiners, which requires the company to navigate different examiner styles and requirements. HENSON, DEVIN B is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under their review. This means the other pending action is assigned to a different examiner, distributing the company's legal focus and reducing the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio.
The presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners suggests a diversified approach to patenting within the medical device field. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company is not currently facing a concentration of work with any single examiner, which may provide a more varied set of outcomes for its pending applications. This structure allows the company to test different technical arguments across multiple points of contact at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 1 | 65.0% | +43.6% |
| DINH, JACK | 1 | 85.0% | +6.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548857 | VISION-BASED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT TESTING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD | HENSON, DEVIN B | 142d overdue |
| 17594699 | CORRECTIVE LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY PROFILE MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION AND INTEGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | DINH, JACK | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548857 | VISION-BASED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT TESTING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD | HENSON, DEVIN B | 142d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18548857 | VISION-BASED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT TESTING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD | HENSON, DEVIN B | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 142d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 17594699 | CORRECTIVE LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY PROFILE MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION AND INTEGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | DINH, JACK | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2021 |
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