Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sight Sciences Inc. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is highly decentralized, with 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units each handling exactly one action. This one-to-one ratio across examiners and art units indicates a broad spread of the company's patent applications.
HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because all 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, no single individual has a larger share of the workload than any other. This distribution means the company must navigate the specific tendencies of 5 distinct art units simultaneously to resolve its matters.
For the practitioner, this structure requires a strategy tailored to the specific habits of 5 different examiners. Since HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT and the other assigned examiners each handle only 1 pending office action, there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner relationship for multiple outcomes. The 5 distinct art units also suggest that procedural experiences may vary across the different pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1 | 68.8% | +17.6% |
| CHNG, JOY POH AI | 1 | 60.6% | +19.0% |
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 1 | 75.4% | +17.8% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 1 | 56.3% | +27.5% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.5% | +22.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667794 | SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT MONITORING | CHNG, JOY POH AI | — |
| 18454585 | OCULAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — |
| 16984997 | CONTROLLER WITH IMAGING SYSTEM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522058 | INTRAOCULAR IMPLANTS AND METHODS AND KITS THEREFOR | DEAK, LESLIE R | 12d |
| 19193790 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR INTRAOCULAR TISSUE MANIPULATION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | — |
| 18667794 | SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT MONITORING | CHNG, JOY POH AI | — |
| 18454585 | OCULAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — |
| 16984997 | CONTROLLER WITH IMAGING SYSTEM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193790 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR INTRAOCULAR TISSUE MANIPULATION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 18667794 | SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT MONITORING | CHNG, JOY POH AI | 3686 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18522058 | INTRAOCULAR IMPLANTS AND METHODS AND KITS THEREFOR | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18454585 | OCULAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 16984997 | CONTROLLER WITH IMAGING SYSTEM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSight Sciences Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Kathleen Sonnett Holwerda has the most, with 1 of Sight Sciences Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
