Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nikon-Essilor Co. Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, which indicates a high degree of personnel diversity in the examination of the company's patent applications. While the examiners are numerous, the portfolio is organized into 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical subject matter is grouped into 2 primary administrative categories.
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 of the pending actions. This even distribution across 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units shows that no single examiner holds a majority of the company's 5 pending office actions, requiring the management of multiple separate examiner relationships within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.7% | +17.9% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.8% | +28.4% |
| HANN, JAY B | 1 | 61.1% | +31.9% |
| BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 1 | 81.5% | +4.5% |
| LEE, MATTHEW Y | 1 | 81.5% | +18.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18210305 | VISUAL FUNCTION EXAMINATION DEVICE, SPECTACLE LENS PRESENTATION SYSTEM, PRINTED MATTER, VISUAL FUNCTION EXAMINATION METHOD, SPECTACLE LENS PRESENTATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18956304 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 22d |
| 17977497 | OPTICAL MEMBER | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 27d |
| 18985860 | TRANSMITTING-TYPE OPTICAL ARTICLE SET FOR EYES, LENS SET FOR EYES, TRANSMITTING-TYPE OPTICAL ARTICLE FOR EYES, AND EYEGLASSES | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
| 18224200 | EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN DEVICE, EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN METHOD, AND PROGRAM | HANN, JAY B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18956304 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 22d |
| 17977497 | OPTICAL MEMBER | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 27d |
| 18985860 | TRANSMITTING-TYPE OPTICAL ARTICLE SET FOR EYES, LENS SET FOR EYES, TRANSMITTING-TYPE OPTICAL ARTICLE FOR EYES, AND EYEGLASSES | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
| 18224200 | EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN DEVICE, EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN METHOD, AND PROGRAM | HANN, JAY B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985860 | TRANSMITTING-TYPE OPTICAL ARTICLE SET FOR EYES, LENS SET FOR EYES, TRANSMITTING-TYPE OPTICAL ARTICLE FOR EYES, AND EYEGLASSES | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18956304 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18224200 | EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN DEVICE, EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN METHOD, AND PROGRAM | HANN, JAY B | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18210305 | VISUAL FUNCTION EXAMINATION DEVICE, SPECTACLE LENS PRESENTATION SYSTEM, PRINTED MATTER, VISUAL FUNCTION EXAMINATION METHOD, SPECTACLE LENS PRESENTATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 2872 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 17977497 | OPTICAL MEMBER | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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