Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HILL, MYRON G 1 66.5% +19.8%
WARD, PAUL V 1 83.2% -11.0%
LEE, WILLIAM Y 1 47.8% +34.1%
PYLA, EVELYN Y 1 55.1% +47.8%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18024623 RHO KINASE INHIBITION FOR TREATMENT OF PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY AND CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION WARD, PAUL V 91d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17613467 A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR TREATING NON-INFECTIOUS OCULAR IMMUNOINFLAMMATORY DISORDERS LEE, WILLIAM Y 10d overdue
17310235 OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION PYLA, EVELYN Y 5d overdue
18271250 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS (AAV) AND THE AAV RECEPTOR (AAVR) FOR ALTERED BIO-DISTRIBUTION OF AAV HILL, MYRON G 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1671 1
1622 1
1623 1
1633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18271250 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS (AAV) AND THE AAV RECEPTOR (AAVR) FOR ALTERED BIO-DISTRIBUTION OF AAV HILL, MYRON G 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 07, 2023
18024623 RHO KINASE INHIBITION FOR TREATMENT OF PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY AND CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION WARD, PAUL V 1622 §102 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
17613467 A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR TREATING NON-INFECTIOUS OCULAR IMMUNOINFLAMMATORY DISORDERS LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2021
17310235 OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION PYLA, EVELYN Y 1633 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2021

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