Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH is managing 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is MONSHI, SAMIRA, who has 1 pending office action. This distribution across 4 distinct examiners shows a broad handling of the portfolio, ensuring that each filing receives an independent review.
The 3 distinct art units indicate that the optics and semiconductor filings are being reviewed by several different technical divisions. This spread across multiple examiners and units ensures that no single individual or group dominates the prosecution of the company's current applications. Managing a portfolio across 3 distinct art units requires the company to be familiar with the specific examination standards of each specialized group within the office to maintain consistency.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONSHI, SAMIRA | 1 | 80.0% | +6.0% |
| MEBRAHTU, EPHREM ZERU | 1 | 74.7% | +8.8% |
| PAN, JIA X | 1 | 72.5% | +37.1% |
| GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 1 | 76.3% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041151 | MEDICAL VISUALIZATION SYSTEM, MEDICAL OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING A VIDEO IMAGE DATA STREAM | MONSHI, SAMIRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841519 | STEREOSCOPIC ASSEMBLY, SURGICAL MICROSCOPE WITH STEREOSCOPIC ASSEMBLY, AND SURGICAL SET | MEBRAHTU, EPHREM ZERU | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625557 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM, SPECIFIC USE OF AN ILLUMINATION SYSTEM, ILLUMINATION METHOD AND OBSERVATION SYSTEM | PAN, JIA X | — |
| 18118228 | MEDICAL VISUALIZATION AND/OR ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING NON-VISIBLE ILLUMINATION LIGHT | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041151 | MEDICAL VISUALIZATION SYSTEM, MEDICAL OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING A VIDEO IMAGE DATA STREAM | MONSHI, SAMIRA | 4100 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18841519 | STEREOSCOPIC ASSEMBLY, SURGICAL MICROSCOPE WITH STEREOSCOPIC ASSEMBLY, AND SURGICAL SET | MEBRAHTU, EPHREM ZERU | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18625557 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM, SPECIFIC USE OF AN ILLUMINATION SYSTEM, ILLUMINATION METHOD AND OBSERVATION SYSTEM | PAN, JIA X | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18118228 | MEDICAL VISUALIZATION AND/OR ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING NON-VISIBLE ILLUMINATION LIGHT | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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