Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eyex Solutions Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to examiner JONATHAN T KUO, who is the only distinct examiner listed for the company's active portfolio. This concentration indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a single application and a single point of contact at the USPTO.
The portfolio's prosecution activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit. JONATHAN T KUO is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, the workload is entirely centered on this individual. This structure suggests a highly specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
For patent practitioners, this profile represents a straightforward prosecution environment with no distribution across different examiners or art units. The strategy for this portfolio depends entirely on the interaction with JONATHAN T KUO. Since the company has only 1 pending office action, the outcome of this single matter will significantly impact the current status of their pending intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUO, JONATHAN T | 1 | 72.3% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18442850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING CHANNELS IN AN EYE USING LASER PULSES FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA | KUO, JONATHAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18442850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING CHANNELS IN AN EYE USING LASER PULSES FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA | KUO, JONATHAN T | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
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