Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lensar Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but only 1 art unit, indicating examiner-level variation within a common technical examination area.
FARAH, AHMED M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the shared art-unit context for portfolio coordination while tailoring responses to the separate examiner assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARAH, AHMED M | 1 | 78.9% | +18.9% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 78.0% | +23.6% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 1 | 62.4% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18123245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STRUCTURES OF THE EYE INCLUDING SHAPE AND POSITIONS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 84d overdue |
| 17140034 | COMPACT RECONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED LASER-PHACO SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | KISH, JAMES 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18123245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STRUCTURES OF THE EYE INCLUDING SHAPE AND POSITIONS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 84d overdue |
| 18387422 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE EXCLUDED DEFINED ZONES FOR INCREASING ACCOMMODATIVE AMPLITUDE | FARAH, AHMED M | — |
| 17140034 | COMPACT RECONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED LASER-PHACO SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | KISH, JAMES M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18387422 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE EXCLUDED DEFINED ZONES FOR INCREASING ACCOMMODATIVE AMPLITUDE | FARAH, AHMED M | 3792 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18123245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STRUCTURES OF THE EYE INCLUDING SHAPE AND POSITIONS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 17140034 | COMPACT RECONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED LASER-PHACO SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialLensar Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Ahmed M Farah has the most, with 1 of Lensar Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
