Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Staar Surgical Company has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Both matters are in 1 art unit but are assigned to 2 examiners, so art-unit practice is shared while examiner treatment may differ.
WILLSE, DAVID H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel can use the common art-unit setting to monitor consistent requirements and tailor each response to its assigned examiner.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +14.0% |
| BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. | 1 | 68.3% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895941 | OPHTHALMIC LENSES WITH FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
| 18471018 | OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD AND ENHANCED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY | BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895941 | OPHTHALMIC LENSES WITH FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18471018 | OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD AND ENHANCED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY | BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. | 3774 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialStaar Surgical Company has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
David H Willse has the most, with 1 of Staar Surgical Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
