Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Optos PLC

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
75% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GAGNON, GRANT A 1 83.8% +7.4%
RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN 1 87.7% +14.9%
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 1 80.8% +18.0%
ALAM, HOSAIN T 1 40.0% +17.8%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17712477 Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 80d overdue
18197059 Non-confocal Point-scan Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN 21d
18756177 OPHTHALMIC OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPHTHALMIC OBJECTIVE LENS, AND OPHTHALMIC DEVICE GAGNON, GRANT A 35d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17712477 Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 80d overdue
16943618 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD ALAM, HOSAIN T 13d
18197059 Non-confocal Point-scan Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 2
2877 1
2132 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18756177 OPHTHALMIC OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPHTHALMIC OBJECTIVE LENS, AND OPHTHALMIC DEVICE GAGNON, GRANT A 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18197059 Non-confocal Point-scan Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN 2877 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending May 13, 2023
17712477 Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2872 §103 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2022
16943618 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD ALAM, HOSAIN T 2132 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jul 30, 2020

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