Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sight Sciences Inc. has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a one to one ratio of examiners to pending cases. The portfolio is spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating significant technical diversity. This distribution ensures that the 6 pending office actions are reviewed by a wide variety of experts at the patent office.
The busiest examiner is HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT, who has 1 pending office action. Because each of the 6 distinct examiners has only 1 pending action, the workload is perfectly distributed across the 6 cases. The 5 distinct art units suggest that the company's 6 pending office actions involve a wide array of medical and mechanical technologies. By engaging 6 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, the company avoids concentration risk and benefits from a broad range of examiner feedback on its 6 pending office actions. This decentralized approach is effective for managing a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 | 68.7% | +17.8% |
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.7% |
| CHNG, JOY POH AI | 1 | 60.6% | +19.0% |
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 1 | 75.3% | +17.8% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 1 | 55.1% | +25.9% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.6% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892271 | OCULAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
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 6 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 | — |
| 18892271 | OCULAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 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 |
| 18892271 | OCULAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 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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