Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foresight Optical Ltd. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's technical developments span different specialized groups within the patent office. This distribution requires a broader understanding of different art unit practices.
The workload involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person. Among them, LIU, SHAN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the pending actions are distributed, with no single examiner holding a majority of the active cases.
Practitioners handling this portfolio must navigate the preferences of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. While LIU, SHAN is the busiest examiner, the 1 busiest examiner pending action is a portion of the total workload in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area. This level of variety suggests a need for versatile prosecution tactics to address the different perspectives of the examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, SHAN | 1 | 72.4% | +39.4% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.1% | +20.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212628 | OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING AN ANTI-FOG THIN FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | LIU, SHAN | 14d |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212628 | OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING AN ANTI-FOG THIN FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | LIU, SHAN | 14d |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 2 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18212628 | OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING AN ANTI-FOG THIN FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | LIU, SHAN | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 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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