Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lensar Inc. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The distribution of 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units indicates a diverse range of technical examination for the company's portfolio. This variety suggests that the company's filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area cover several different specialized technologies, each requiring a unique prosecution approach.
FARAH, AHMED M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The workload is highly distributed, as 5 distinct examiners are each handling 1 of the 5 pending office actions. With 5 pending office actions in total, the company must coordinate its prosecution strategy across 3 distinct art units. This distribution reflects a broad engagement with the patent office, as the 5 pending office actions are not centralized under a single examiner, requiring the company to manage interactions with 5 distinct examiners simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 3 (75%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 | 79.0% | +18.8% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17728610 | System and Method for Laser Generated Corneal and Crystalline Lens Incisions using a Variable F/# Optical System with Aspheric Contact Interface to the Cornea or Rotating and Adaptive Optics | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 85d overdue |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17728610 | System and Method for Laser Generated Corneal and Crystalline Lens Incisions using a Variable F/# Optical System with Aspheric Contact Interface to the Cornea or Rotating and Adaptive Optics | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 85d overdue |
| 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 | 2 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 17728610 | System and Method for Laser Generated Corneal and Crystalline Lens Incisions using a Variable F/# Optical System with Aspheric Contact Interface to the Cornea or Rotating and Adaptive Optics | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
| 17140034 | COMPACT RECONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED LASER-PHACO SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | KISH, JAMES M | 3700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 01, 2021 |
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