Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 4 clients • 12 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 | 5 (42%) |
| §102 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.7% | +0.8% |
| GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 1 | 50.6% | +40.4% |
| WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 1 | 57.1% | +15.2% |
| MARTIN, VERONICA | 1 | 81.6% | +14.9% |
| HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 1 | 90.3% | +5.0% |
| LAUX, JESSICA L | 1 | 54.7% | +28.3% |
| VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1 | 61.8% | +21.2% |
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1 | 49.8% | +46.6% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.6% | +8.3% |
| LEE, MATTHEW Y | 1 | 82.2% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708285 | DRIVING-IN APPARATUS AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 96d overdue |
| 18640171 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DATA RELATED TO A PROGRESSION OF REFRACTIVE VALUES OF A PERSON | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 43d |
| 18316676 | SPECTACLE LENS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL AND/OR ANTIVIRAL PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 46d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18360595 | METHOD AND LENS HOLDER FOR TINTING A SPECTACLE LENS | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 189d overdue |
| 18708285 | DRIVING-IN APPARATUS AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 96d overdue |
| 18699457 | FAÇADE, FASTENING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAUX, JESSICA L | 93d overdue |
| 18740123 | DRINKING VESSEL WITH COVERING, AND HANDBAG AND HOLDING DEVICE FOR DRINKING VESSEL | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 45d overdue |
| 18744123 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SPECTACLE FRAME SELECTION | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 31d overdue |
| 18495263 | METHOD FOR TINTING OR DECOLORING A LENS, LENS OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD FOR TINTING OR DECOLORING A LENS, LENS COMPRISING A TINT OR DECOLORIZATION, LENS HOLDER AND TINTING DEVICE FOR TINTING A LENS | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 29d overdue |
| 18316676 | SPECTACLE LENS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL AND/OR ANTIVIRAL PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 46d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss | 7 |
| Hilti | 3 |
| AnnLee GmbH | 1 |
| Carl Zeiss Shanghai Co. Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 3731 | 2 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747800 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRINTING PARAMETER VALUES OF AN INKJET PRINTING DEVICE, A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR INKJET PRINTING AND AN INKJET PRINTING DEVICE | Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18744123 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SPECTACLE FRAME SELECTION | Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18740123 | DRINKING VESSEL WITH COVERING, AND HANDBAG AND HOLDING DEVICE FOR DRINKING VESSEL | AnnLee GmbH | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18708285 | DRIVING-IN APPARATUS AND METHOD | Hilti Aktiengesellschaft | MARTIN, VERONICA | 3731 | §112 | Final Rejection | 96d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18640171 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DATA RELATED TO A PROGRESSION OF REFRACTIVE VALUES OF A PERSON | Carl Zeiss Shanghai Co. Ltd. | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18699457 | FAÇADE, FASTENING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Hilti Aktiengesellschaft | LAUX, JESSICA L | 3635 | Other | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18495263 | METHOD FOR TINTING OR DECOLORING A LENS, LENS OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD FOR TINTING OR DECOLORING A LENS, LENS COMPRISING A TINT OR DECOLORIZATION, LENS HOLDER AND TINTING DEVICE FOR TINTING A LENS | Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens China Ltd. | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1742 | Other | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18360595 | METHOD AND LENS HOLDER FOR TINTING A SPECTACLE LENS | Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 189d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18323517 | SPECTACLE LENS DESIGN, SPECTACLE LENS KIT, DATA SET, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DESIGNING A SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS | Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18316676 | SPECTACLE LENS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL AND/OR ANTIVIRAL PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 17782041 | WORKING TOOL | Hilti Aktiengesellschaft | GERTH, KATIE L | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17721630 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR INDIVIDUALISING A SPECTACLE FRAME ELEMENT BY DETERMINING A PARAMETRIC SUBSTITUTION MODEL OF A SPECTACLE FRAME ELEMENT, AND DEVICE AND SYSTEMS USING SUCH A METHOD | Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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