Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, creating a distributed prosecution profile with some examiner and unit overlap. This structure makes coordinated portfolio review useful, but it does not support assuming uniform examination treatment.
FARAH, AHMED M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel may use those matters as a focused review group while separately accounting for the positions of the other examiners. Consistent device terminology and claim scope can help maintain alignment across the different examination assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARAH, AHMED M | 2 | 78.9% | +18.9% |
| KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 1 | 23.4% | +31.5% |
| DUONG, HENRY ABRAHAM | 1 | 79.0% | +7.4% |
| PHAM, NHUT HUY | 1 | 82.3% | +23.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18108150 | EYE IMAGE QUALITY ANALYSIS | PHAM, NHUT HUY | 50d overdue |
| 18775539 | Computer Implemented Method Of Generating A Patient Specific Digital Workflow And An Ophthalmic Workflow Generator For Generating A Patient Specific Digital Workflow | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 43d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18108150 | EYE IMAGE QUALITY ANALYSIS | PHAM, NHUT HUY | 50d overdue |
| 18775539 | Computer Implemented Method Of Generating A Patient Specific Digital Workflow And An Ophthalmic Workflow Generator For Generating A Patient Specific Digital Workflow | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 43d overdue |
| 18905656 | Device for Treating Eye Tissue by Means of a Pulsed Laser Beam | FARAH, AHMED M | — |
| 18517258 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PATIENT INTERFACE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PATIENT INTERFACE | FARAH, AHMED M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905656 | Device for Treating Eye Tissue by Means of a Pulsed Laser Beam | FARAH, AHMED M | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18775539 | Computer Implemented Method Of Generating A Patient Specific Digital Workflow And An Ophthalmic Workflow Generator For Generating A Patient Specific Digital Workflow | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18669859 | Ophthalmic Imaging Device | DUONG, HENRY ABRAHAM | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18517258 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PATIENT INTERFACE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PATIENT INTERFACE | FARAH, AHMED M | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18108150 | EYE IMAGE QUALITY ANALYSIS | PHAM, NHUT HUY | 2674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZiemer Ophthalmic Systems AG has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Ahmed M Farah has the most, with 2 of Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
