Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 5 clients • 15 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 11 (73%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.5% | +17.9% |
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 32.7% | +26.2% |
| REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 1 | 54.4% | +42.1% |
| BILLAH, MASUM | 1 | 80.1% | +20.9% |
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 70.0% | +42.9% |
| HODGES, SUSAN E | 1 | 66.6% | +14.6% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.2% | +17.6% |
| GADOMSKI, STEFAN J | 1 | 76.1% | +7.3% |
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 1 | 80.0% | +12.9% |
| AYUB, HINA F | 1 | 84.9% | +17.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18628708 | OPHTHALMIC LOUPE, LENS COMBINATION AND OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 16d overdue |
| 18382047 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A MEDIUM, HOUSING, AND SYSTEM | AYUB, HINA F | 9d |
| 18900866 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE | BILLAH, MASUM | 29d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17987784 | REPEATED DETERMINATION OF A POSITION OF A MOVABLE PART OF A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE | LEE, BYUNG RO | 13d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18957466 | CARBON CANISTER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 89d overdue |
| 18731153 | FABRICATION OF A MIRROR FOR AN OPTICAL CAVITY | LEE, EDMUND H | 46d overdue |
| 18820191 | OPTICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL MEASUREMENT OF OBJECTS WITH A SENSOR UNIT FOR DETECTING OTHER OBJECTS IN THE CORRESPONDING SENSOR RANGE | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 36d overdue |
| 18912534 | MEASURING UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY MEASURING OBJECTS | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 32d overdue |
| 18628708 | OPHTHALMIC LOUPE, LENS COMBINATION AND OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 16d overdue |
| 18784879 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A STEREOSCOPIC MEDICAL MICROSCOPE, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT | HODGES, SUSAN E | 5d |
| 18382047 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A MEDIUM, HOUSING, AND SYSTEM | AYUB, HINA F | 9d |
| 18900866 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE | BILLAH, MASUM | 29d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss | 11 |
| MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH | 1 |
| Qlibri GmbH | 1 |
| iSud Solutions GmbH | 1 |
| VDM METALS INTERNATIONAL GMBH | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 3 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19005974 | MICROSCOPY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE MICROSCOPY SYSTEM | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18957466 | CARBON CANISTER | Mahle International GmbH | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18912534 | MEASURING UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY MEASURING OBJECTS | Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18900866 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE | Carl Zeiss AG | BILLAH, MASUM | 2486 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 29, 2024 |
| 18820191 | OPTICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL MEASUREMENT OF OBJECTS WITH A SENSOR UNIT FOR DETECTING OTHER OBJECTS IN THE CORRESPONDING SENSOR RANGE | Carl Zeiss Gom Metrology GmbH | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18784879 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A STEREOSCOPIC MEDICAL MICROSCOPE, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | HODGES, SUSAN E | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18731153 | FABRICATION OF A MIRROR FOR AN OPTICAL CAVITY | Qlibri GmbH | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18655181 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A CAMERA AND CAMERA HAVING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM | Carl Zeiss AG | GADOMSKI, STEFAN J | 2485 | §103 | Final Rejection | 81d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18628708 | OPHTHALMIC LOUPE, LENS COMBINATION AND OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2024 |
| 18382047 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A MEDIUM, HOUSING, AND SYSTEM | Isud Solutions GmbH | AYUB, HINA F | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18372479 | METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR CREATING OR ADAPTING INDIVIDUAL IMAGES BASED ON PROPERTIES OF A LIGHT RAY WITHIN A LENS | Carl Zeiss AG | PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18372049 | NICKEL-BASE ALLOY COMPOSITION FOR COMPONENT PARTS WITH REDUCED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CRACKING AND OPTIMIZED HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES | VDM METALS INTERNATIONAL GMBH | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18244283 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 10, 2023 |
| 17987784 | REPEATED DETERMINATION OF A POSITION OF A MOVABLE PART OF A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE | Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH | LEE, BYUNG RO | 2858 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17732501 | OPHTHALMOSURGICAL CONTROL MODULE DEVICE | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | BOCKELMAN, MARK | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
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