Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optotune Switzerland AG currently manages 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, RICKEL, ALEX PARK. The portfolio shows 0 distinct art units involved in current prosecution. RICKEL, ALEX PARK is the busiest examiner, holding the only pending office action. This concentrated activity suggests a very narrow focus for the company's current patent efforts.
Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of the assigned examiner, as there are no other active matters or art units to consider. This streamlined profile indicates a highly targeted approach to their current intellectual property filings. The absence of multiple art units simplifies the coordination of their prosecution strategy.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 70.9% | +14.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904107 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING ACTUATION FORCES FOR AN ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904107 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING ACTUATION FORCES FOR AN ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904107 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING ACTUATION FORCES FOR AN ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
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