Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
LEICA INSTRUMENTS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. has 9 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 6 distinct art units and involve 8 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that the company's instrumentation technology is being reviewed by several specialized groups at the USPTO. The presence of 6 distinct art units indicates that practitioners must manage a variety of technical requirements.
FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. The presence of 8 distinct examiners for 9 pending actions means that most matters are being handled independently. This lack of examiner concentration requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the individual preferences of 8 different examiners. With 9 pending office actions in progress, the company maintains a diverse set of interactions across multiple technical groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 5 (56%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 2 | 58.0% | +37.9% |
| CERULLO, LILIANA P | 1 | 74.8% | +20.4% |
| IP, JASON M | 1 | 55.2% | +25.2% |
| HSIEH, PING Y | 1 | 79.1% | +15.4% |
| HUNTER, MISHAWN N | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
| KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | 1 | 80.5% | +29.6% |
| CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 1 | 69.0% | +16.9% |
| ORR, HENRY W | 1 | 50.5% | +37.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19339419 | Apparatus for an Optical Imaging System, Optical Imaging System, Method and Computer Program | CERULLO, LILIANA P | — |
| 18838617 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR MICROSCOPE IMAGES | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| 18580166 | MEDICAL VIDEO ANNOTATION USING OBJECT DETECTION AND ACTIVITY ESTIMATION | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | — |
| 18555263 | Ophthalmic Microscope System and corresponding System, Method and Computer Program | KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549605 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 4d overdue |
| 18864581 | METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE USING TWO COLOR IMAGES AND COLOR CAMERAS FOR FLUORESCENCE AND WHITE-LIGHT | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 14d |
| 18864555 | METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE FOR TOGGLING IMAGES | 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 |
| 19339419 | Apparatus for an Optical Imaging System, Optical Imaging System, Method and Computer Program | CERULLO, LILIANA P | — |
| 18838617 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR MICROSCOPE IMAGES | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| 18580166 | MEDICAL VIDEO ANNOTATION USING OBJECT DETECTION AND ACTIVITY ESTIMATION | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| 2484 | 2 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19339419 | Apparatus for an Optical Imaging System, Optical Imaging System, Method and Computer Program | CERULLO, LILIANA P | 2621 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 18864581 | METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE USING TWO COLOR IMAGES AND COLOR CAMERAS FOR FLUORESCENCE AND WHITE-LIGHT | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18864555 | METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND MEDICAL FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE FOR TOGGLING IMAGES | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 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 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18838617 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR MICROSCOPE IMAGES | HSIEH, PING Y | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18580166 | MEDICAL VIDEO ANNOTATION USING OBJECT DETECTION AND ACTIVITY ESTIMATION | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | 2484 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18555263 | Ophthalmic Microscope System and corresponding System, Method and Computer Program | KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18549605 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | CHOWDHURY, NIGAR | 2484 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18249986 | System for a Microscope System and Corresponding Method and Computer Program | ORR, HENRY W | 2172 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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