Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

LEICA INSTRUMENTS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (2)

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%)
6
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
No statute on record2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
38% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 2 57.6% +38.1%
ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 1 58.2% +38.2%
IP, JASON M 1 54.5% +25.7%
CHOWDHURY, NIGAR 1 68.8% +17.1%
VU, PHU 1 85.3% +9.2%
ORR, HENRY W 1 50.7% +37.0%
CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 1 69.6% +36.1%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18251545 SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM VU, PHU 83d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18165979 SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A MICROSCOPE OF A SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 111d overdue
18549605 MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM CHOWDHURY, NIGAR 4d overdue
18864555 METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE FOR TOGGLING IMAGES FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 14d
18864581 METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE USING TWO COLOR IMAGES AND COLOR CAMERAS FOR FLUORESCENCE AND WHITE-LIGHT FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 14d
18249986 System for a Microscope System and Corresponding Method and Computer Program ORR, HENRY W 27d
18864583 METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE USING TWO COLOR IMAGES AND COLOR CAMERAS FOR FLUORESCENCE AND WHITE-LIGHT IP, JASON M 71d
18995902 SERIALISED VIDEO TRANSMISSION ALAM, MUSHFIKH I

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 2
2426 1
3797 1
2484 1
2871 1
2172 1
2667 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18995902 SERIALISED VIDEO TRANSMISSION ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2426 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 17, 2025
18864555 METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE FOR TOGGLING IMAGES FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 3798 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18864583 METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE USING TWO COLOR IMAGES AND COLOR CAMERAS FOR FLUORESCENCE AND WHITE-LIGHT IP, JASON M 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18864581 METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE USING TWO COLOR IMAGES AND COLOR CAMERAS FOR FLUORESCENCE AND WHITE-LIGHT FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 3798 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18549605 MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM CHOWDHURY, NIGAR 2484 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18251545 SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM VU, PHU 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending May 03, 2023
18249986 System for a Microscope System and Corresponding Method and Computer Program ORR, HENRY W 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 21, 2023
18165979 SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A MICROSCOPE OF A SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 2667 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2023

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