Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foresight Optical Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths within the portfolio.
FLORES JR, DONALD M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Neither examiner accounts for a larger concentration in the supplied data. Counsel should therefore assess each application’s claim scope and cited art independently, while using portfolio review to identify technical overlap that could support consistent drafting or response positions.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 77.0% | +26.9% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.2% | +20.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212107 | COMPOSITE HIGH SCRATCH-RESISTANT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212107 | COMPOSITE HIGH SCRATCH-RESISTANT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 17903800 | OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING A POLARIZATION MINIATURE STRUCTURE AND METHOD THEREOF | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18212107 | COMPOSITE HIGH SCRATCH-RESISTANT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 17903800 | OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING A POLARIZATION MINIATURE STRUCTURE AND METHOD THEREOF | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialForesight Optical Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Donald M Flores Jr. has the most, with 1 of Foresight Optical Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
