Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Menicon Co., Ltd. shows a singular prosecution focus within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active, which is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very specialized technical scope for the company's current patenting activities.
HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE is the 1 distinct examiner involved, accounting for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only one examiner and one art unit involved, the entity's current interaction with the patent office is highly concentrated. This singular point of contact defines the current prosecution landscape for the organization.
For practitioners, this profile indicates that the entire active docket is subject to the review of a single examiner. This requires a strategy that is highly sensitive to the examiner's specific feedback and technical interpretations. The concentrated nature of the portfolio makes each communication with the patent office a critical step for the entity's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 67.0% | +21.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16942403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING OPHTHALMIC LENS INCLUDING META OPTICS | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16942403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING OPHTHALMIC LENS INCLUDING META OPTICS | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 29, 2020 |
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