Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Foresight Optical Ltd.

6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
§102 only3 (50%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROOME, SHARRIEF I 3 81.3% +4.0%
DUNNING, RYAN S 1 76.2% +22.7%
SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 1 80.0% +12.9%
LIU, SHAN 1 72.0% +39.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18391214 ELECTROCHROMIC LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 81d overdue
18601044 CHROMA ENHANCEMENT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING RED AND GREEN COLOR DEFICIENT VISION AND METHOD THEREOF BROOME, SHARRIEF I 10d overdue
18600575 CHROMA ENHANCEMENT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING GREEN COLOR DEFICIENT VISION AND METHOD THEREOF BROOME, SHARRIEF I 10d overdue
18601938 CHROMA ENHANCEMENT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING RED COLOR DEFICIENT VISION AND METHOD THEREOF BROOME, SHARRIEF I 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18391214 ELECTROCHROMIC LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 81d overdue
18600528 INFRARED-FILTERING THERMAL-ISOLATIVE OPTICAL LENS DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF FOR WHOLE-VISIBLE-SPECTRUM ENHANCEMENT DUNNING, RYAN S 44d overdue
18212628 OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING AN ANTI-FOG THIN FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF LIU, SHAN 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 5
2871 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18601938 CHROMA ENHANCEMENT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING RED COLOR DEFICIENT VISION AND METHOD THEREOF BROOME, SHARRIEF I 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18601044 CHROMA ENHANCEMENT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING RED AND GREEN COLOR DEFICIENT VISION AND METHOD THEREOF BROOME, SHARRIEF I 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18600575 CHROMA ENHANCEMENT OPTICAL LENS DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING GREEN COLOR DEFICIENT VISION AND METHOD THEREOF BROOME, SHARRIEF I 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18600528 INFRARED-FILTERING THERMAL-ISOLATIVE OPTICAL LENS DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF FOR WHOLE-VISIBLE-SPECTRUM ENHANCEMENT DUNNING, RYAN S 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18391214 ELECTROCHROMIC LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18212628 OPTICAL LENS DEVICE HAVING AN ANTI-FOG THIN FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF LIU, SHAN 2871 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 21, 2023

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