Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 4 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schwind Eye-Tech-Solutions GmbH maintains 12 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 12 distinct examiners, which establishes the examiner diversity within the portfolio. Prosecution spans 4 distinct art units, which suggests the company's technology covers different mechanical or medical sub-specialties. FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 pending action.
The distribution of pending actions among different examiners means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's success. Practitioners must prepare for unique sets of examiner preferences and historical allowance rates. The involvement of 4 distinct art units requires an understanding of different examination practices across those units. This volume of 12 pending actions indicates the current prosecution phase for the company. Because the busiest examiner, FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN, has only 1 pending action, the workload is balanced across the examiner pool. Practitioners should focus on the art units to identify trends in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The examiners provide separate opportunities for negotiation and allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (58%) |
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 1 | 79.4% | +18.4% |
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 1 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 1 | 58.3% | +61.1% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +39.6% |
| SANDERS, JOSHUA T | 1 | 73.6% | +36.2% |
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.7% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +30.1% |
| MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 1 | 78.2% | +9.6% |
| WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.7% | +23.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17562316 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN EYE SURGICAL LASER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND TREATMENT APPARATUS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 282d overdue |
| 18631297 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING AN OPAQUE BUBBLE LAYER | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 45d overdue |
| 18651998 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHAMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREAMENT APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING AN ASTIGMATISM | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 9d |
| 18776688 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 29d |
| 18772698 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE THEREFOR, TREATMENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 29d |
| 18766913 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 34d |
| 18604899 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 61d |
| 18889738 | TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR THE LASER-INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGE | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631297 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING AN OPAQUE BUBBLE LAYER | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 45d overdue |
| 18651998 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHAMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREAMENT APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING AN ASTIGMATISM | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 9d |
| 18776688 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 29d |
| 18772698 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE THEREFOR, TREATMENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 29d |
| 18766913 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 34d |
| 18604899 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 61d |
| 18889738 | TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR THE LASER-INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGE | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
| 18645797 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR A LASER OF A PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | SANDERS, JOSHUA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 6 |
| 3792 | 4 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889738 | TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR THE LASER-INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGE | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 3792 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18776688 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18772698 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE THEREFOR, TREATMENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18766913 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18651998 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHAMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREAMENT APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING AN ASTIGMATISM | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18645797 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR A LASER OF A PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | SANDERS, JOSHUA T | 2119 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18631297 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING AN OPAQUE BUBBLE LAYER | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18604899 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18539883 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL DATA FOR AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER FOR PROVIDING A TRANSITION ZONE BETWEEN INTERFACES | MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 3792 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18331573 | MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 17562316 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN EYE SURGICAL LASER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND TREATMENT APPARATUS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 282d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2021 |
| 17112319 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CURRENT POSITION OF A PATIENT INTERFACE OF AN EYE SURGICAL LASER BASED ON A PURKINJE IMAGE | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2020 |
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