Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Karl Storz Imaging Inc.

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (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%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (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
2
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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
LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD 2 68.4% +38.6%
LEUBECKER, JOHN P 1 74.8% +10.6%
BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 1 67.4% +36.0%
BOLER, RYNAE E 1 62.3% +7.7%
MILLER, RONDE LEE 1 73.3% +22.2%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18753311 Mixed Latency Video System for Generating Images BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 49d overdue
18067941 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING METAMERICALLY MATCHED ILLUMINATION LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD 42d overdue
18792980 Method of Optical Image Stabilization and Active Alignment of Sensors in Endoscopic Camera Systems LEUBECKER, JOHN P 15d
18636788 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEM MILLER, RONDE LEE 29d
18085437 Scene Adaptive Endoscopic Illuminator LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3795 4
2611 1
2663 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18792980 Method of Optical Image Stabilization and Active Alignment of Sensors in Endoscopic Camera Systems LEUBECKER, JOHN P 3795 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18753311 Mixed Latency Video System for Generating Images BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2024
18670020 IMAGING DEVICE AND SYSTEM BOLER, RYNAE E 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 21, 2024
18636788 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEM MILLER, RONDE LEE 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18085437 Scene Adaptive Endoscopic Illuminator LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Dec 20, 2022
18067941 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING METAMERICALLY MATCHED ILLUMINATION LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022

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