Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 4 clients • 9 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ewers IP Law PLLC operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, having filed 463 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 87.14, indicating a high success rate in obtaining patent grants. There are currently 7 pending office actions in their portfolio.
The firm achieves these results with an avg office actions per allowance of 2.67. This relatively low number of office actions suggests an efficient prosecution process. The 87.14 resolved allowance rate pct is a testament to the firm's effectiveness across its 463 career applications.
Practitioners can look to the 2.67 avg office actions per allowance as a sign of streamlined examiner negotiations. The 7 pending office actions will likely follow this efficient path, given the firm's 87.14 resolved allowance rate pct.
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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 5 (56%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 1 | 80.4% | +5.9% |
| YANG, JIANXUN | 1 | 74.1% | +19.3% |
| LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 1 | 61.1% | +41.6% |
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 1 | 64.0% | +23.9% |
| AYUB, HINA F | 1 | 84.9% | +17.4% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.7% | +17.9% |
| WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 1 | 47.1% | +100.0% |
| HAYES, KRISTEN C | 1 | 68.5% | +21.5% |
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 1 | 49.8% | +26.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382047 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A MEDIUM, HOUSING, AND SYSTEM | AYUB, HINA F | 9d |
| 18244283 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 34d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924985 | SHOE FASTENING SYSTEM | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | — |
| 18776247 | SPORTS SHOE | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | — |
| 18238445 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING UNIT FOR PREPARING OBSERVATION OF FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, METHOD FOR OBSERVING FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, AND OPTICAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
| 17683202 | INTRAOCULAR LENS COMPRISING AN ARM WITH AN ADJUSTABLE LENGTH AS A HAPTIC | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382047 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A MEDIUM, HOUSING, AND SYSTEM | AYUB, HINA F | 9d |
| 18244283 | WAVEFRONT MANIPULATOR FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY WITH HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENT, OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 34d |
| 18784873 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPTICAL AXIS OF A MAIN OBSERVER CAMERA OF A MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT IN A REFERENCE COORDINATE SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT | YANG, JIANXUN | — |
| 18776247 | SPORTS SHOE | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | — |
| 18395278 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY HAVING A PLURALITY OF IMAGE PLANES | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
| 18238445 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING UNIT FOR PREPARING OBSERVATION OF FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, METHOD FOR OBSERVING FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, AND OPTICAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
| 18221844 | LADDER | HAYES, KRISTEN C | — |
| 17683202 | INTRAOCULAR LENS COMPRISING AN ARM WITH AN ADJUSTABLE LENGTH AS A HAPTIC | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss | 5 |
| Powerslide GmbH | 2 |
| iSud Solutions GmbH | 1 |
| Zarges GmbH | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924985 | SHOE FASTENING SYSTEM | Powerslide GmbH | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 | |
| 18784873 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPTICAL AXIS OF A MAIN OBSERVER CAMERA OF A MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT IN A REFERENCE COORDINATE SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | YANG, JIANXUN | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 | |
| 18776247 | SPORTS SHOE | Powerslide GmbH | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18395278 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY HAVING A PLURALITY OF IMAGE PLANES | Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18382047 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A MEDIUM, HOUSING, AND SYSTEM | Isud Solutions GmbH | AYUB, HINA F | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 19, 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 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 10, 2023 |
| 18238445 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING UNIT FOR PREPARING OBSERVATION OF FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, METHOD FOR OBSERVING FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY, AND OPTICAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 | |
| 18221844 | LADDER | Zarges GmbH | HAYES, KRISTEN C | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 17683202 | INTRAOCULAR LENS COMPRISING AN ARM WITH AN ADJUSTABLE LENGTH AS A HAPTIC | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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