Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
VISCO VISION INC. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, which means that every pending matter is being handled by a different person. Despite this variety in examiners, all the pending actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is HASAN, MOHAMMED A, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is only handling a single action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the assigned staff. This indicates that while the company is dealing with multiple individuals, they are all likely working within the same departmental framework of the distinct art unit.
For a practitioner, this profile presents a scenario where the pending office actions are being reviewed by different examiners but all within 1 distinct art unit. This allows for a comparison of different examiner styles and preferences within the same technical field of Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The concentration in this area suggests that the company's current prosecution strategy is highly specialized and relies on consistent technical arguments across different reviewers.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 1 | 90.3% | +5.1% |
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 1 | 64.0% | +23.9% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629886 | CONTACT LENS | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 8d overdue |
| 19001519 | MYOPIA CONTROL CONTACT LENS | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629886 | CONTACT LENS | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 8d overdue |
| 18402815 | COMPOSITION FOR CONTACT LENS AND CONTACT LENS | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001519 | MYOPIA CONTROL CONTACT LENS | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 25, 2024 |
| 18629886 | CONTACT LENS | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18402815 | COMPOSITION FOR CONTACT LENS AND CONTACT LENS | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 2872 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
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