Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 2 clients • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP -Essilor operates in Chemistry & Materials with 11 pending office actions and 356 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 91.41%, showing that resolved applications have reached allowance at a strong rate. The pending inventory identifies ongoing prosecution activity within a recorded portfolio of meaningful scope.
The average of 4.11 office actions per allowance indicates that favorable outcomes commonly follow several examination exchanges. Practitioners should therefore account for response effort when evaluating the profile, rather than relying on the allowance rate alone. The data supports active management of amendment strategy, examiner interactions, and deadlines for Chemistry & Materials matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.5% | +27.7% |
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.0% | +26.4% |
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.0% | +29.5% |
| CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | 1 | 47.5% | +33.7% |
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.6% | +50.4% |
| SANZ, GABRIEL A | 1 | 63.3% | +34.9% |
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
| HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 1 | 10.0% | +100.0% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917625 | OPTICAL ARTICLE WITH ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 2d overdue |
| 17786790 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE HAVING ADJUSTABLE FILTERING PROPERTIES | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 14d |
| 18717284 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MAKING A MOLD ASSEMBLY SUITABLE FOR MOLDING AN OPTHAHLMIC LENS | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 57d |
| 19122607 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TRANSPARENT PLASTIC LENS WITH EMBEDDED DECORATIVE ELEMENTS | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
| 18998798 | FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL LAYERED STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL ARTICLE, EYEWEAR CONTAINING THE SAME, AND THEIR METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | — |
| 17918514 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN OPTICAL ARTICLE COMPRISING MICROLENSES | SANZ, GABRIEL 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560996 | OPTICAL LENS HAVING AN ASYMMETRIC MIRROR | CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | 8d overdue |
| 17917625 | OPTICAL ARTICLE WITH ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 2d overdue |
| 17786790 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE HAVING ADJUSTABLE FILTERING PROPERTIES | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 14d |
| 18717284 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MAKING A MOLD ASSEMBLY SUITABLE FOR MOLDING AN OPTHAHLMIC LENS | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 57d |
| 17765928 | Article with a Hydrophobic Surface Coated with a Temporary Super-Hydrophobic Film Providing Antirain Functionality and Process for Obtaining Same | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 86d |
| 17623699 | Method for Making Optical Lenses Using 3D Printed Functional Wafers | LEE, EDMUND H | 86d |
| 19122607 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TRANSPARENT PLASTIC LENS WITH EMBEDDED DECORATIVE ELEMENTS | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
| 18998798 | FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL LAYERED STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL ARTICLE, EYEWEAR CONTAINING THE SAME, AND THEIR METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19122607 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TRANSPARENT PLASTIC LENS WITH EMBEDDED DECORATIVE ELEMENTS | Barberini S.p.A. | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18998798 | FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL LAYERED STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONALIZED OPTICAL ARTICLE, EYEWEAR CONTAINING THE SAME, AND THEIR METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | Essilor International | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18717284 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MAKING A MOLD ASSEMBLY SUITABLE FOR MOLDING AN OPTHAHLMIC LENS | Essilor International | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18560996 | OPTICAL LENS HAVING AN ASYMMETRIC MIRROR | Essilor International | CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18371206 | Radiation-Curable Hard Coating Composition | Essilor International | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 17918514 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN OPTICAL ARTICLE COMPRISING MICROLENSES | Essilor International | SANZ, GABRIEL A | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 17917625 | OPTICAL ARTICLE WITH ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTION | Essilor International | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17786790 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE HAVING ADJUSTABLE FILTERING PROPERTIES | Essilor International | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17765928 | Article with a Hydrophobic Surface Coated with a Temporary Super-Hydrophobic Film Providing Antirain Functionality and Process for Obtaining Same | Essilor International | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17623699 | Method for Making Optical Lenses Using 3D Printed Functional Wafers | Essilor International | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial91.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP -Essilor were allowed, across 356 applications in USPTO records.
4.11 office actions per allowed application on average.
10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 10 examiners in 8 art units.
