Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Topcon Corporation

18 pending office actions • 10 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

1
Hard (6%)
15
Medium (83%)
2
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only12 (67%)
§102 only3 (17%)
§112 only2 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
22% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
5
Semiconductors
28% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
44% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EISEMAN, ADAM JARED 1 55.0% +26.2%
WILKES, ZACHARY W 1 66.4% +22.1%
PATEL, JIGAR P 1 80.0% +17.1%
MUHAMMAD, KEY 1 65.1% +22.8%
ROBERTS, RACHEL L 1 84.0% +21.3%
CABRERA, DOMINICK JACOB 1
SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK 1
CARRUTH, JENNIFER DOAK 1 77.1% +15.6%
RICHTER, KARA MARIE 1 68.8% +38.5%
BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES 1 77.8% +16.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18553483 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD PATEL, JIGAR P 132d overdue
18212212 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ROBERTS, RACHEL L 33d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17511406 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM, ACCOMPANIED BY PHYSICAL SIMULATION MAPAR, BIJAN 112d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18553483 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD PATEL, JIGAR P 132d overdue
18121391 ELECTRO-OPTICAL DISTANCE METER RICHTER, KARA MARIE 19d overdue
18817301 CONTACTLESS OPHTHALMOTONOMETER AND CONTACTLESS OPHTHALMOTONOMETER ACTUATING METHOD EISEMAN, ADAM JARED 2d overdue
18259587 OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD MUHAMMAD, KEY 14d
18186971 LASER SCANNING METHOD, LASER SCANNING SYSTEM, AND LASER SCANNING PROGRAM CARRUTH, JENNIFER DOAK 19d
18635441 OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS WILKES, ZACHARY W 30d
18212212 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ROBERTS, RACHEL L 33d
18115431 SURVEYING INSTRUMENT BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3645 6
2872 3
2189 2
3791 1
2114 1
2674 1
3648 1
2871 1
2425 1
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18817301 CONTACTLESS OPHTHALMOTONOMETER AND CONTACTLESS OPHTHALMOTONOMETER ACTUATING METHOD EISEMAN, ADAM JARED 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18635441 OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS WILKES, ZACHARY W 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18553483 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD PATEL, JIGAR P 2114 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18259587 OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD MUHAMMAD, KEY 2872 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18212212 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ROBERTS, RACHEL L 2674 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 21, 2023
18336065 LASER SCANNING CONTROL DEVICE, LASER SCANNING APPARATUS, LASER SCANNING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM CABRERA, DOMINICK JACOB 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18187694 SURVEYING APPARATUS, SURVEYING METHOD, AND SURVEYING PROGRAM SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18186971 LASER SCANNING METHOD, LASER SCANNING SYSTEM, AND LASER SCANNING PROGRAM CARRUTH, JENNIFER DOAK 2871 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18121391 ELECTRO-OPTICAL DISTANCE METER RICHTER, KARA MARIE 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18115431 SURVEYING INSTRUMENT BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES 3645 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 28, 2023
18106494 OPHTHALMIC INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS, OPHTHALMIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023
17995754 INCLINATION SENSOR AND DATA ACQUISITION DEVICE ALCON, FERNANDO 2425 §112 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2022
17931138 LASER SCANNING APPARATUS, LASER SCANNING METHOD, AND LASER SCANNING PROGRAM WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID 3645 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Sep 12, 2022
17783215 DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HOCKER, JOHN PAUL 2189 §102 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2022
17655362 SURVEYING SYSTEM, SURVEYING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SURVEYING PROGRAM BECKER, BRANDON J 2857 §112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2022
17511406 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM, ACCOMPANIED BY PHYSICAL SIMULATION MAPAR, BIJAN 2189 §101 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2021
17365358 CONSTRUCTION MEMBER MEASURING METHOD AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR THE METHOD CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2021
17363136 SURVEYING APPARATUS XIAO, YUQING 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 163d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2021

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