Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sanders Ip Law-Alcon

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JACOB, OOMMEN 1 78.8% +17.4%
ROANE, AARON F 1 72.9% +10.0%
RICKEL, ALEX PARK 1 75.6% +14.7%
SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 1 58.0% +14.9%
ABDUR, RAHMAN 1 73.1% +18.9%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18536516 REAL-TIME SURGICAL REFERENCE INDICIUM APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL APPLICATIONS SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 29d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18536516 REAL-TIME SURGICAL REFERENCE INDICIUM APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL APPLICATIONS SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 29d overdue
18174469 COMMON PATH WAVEGUIDES FOR STABLE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING ABDUR, RAHMAN 14d
18780546 System for treatment of the eye ROANE, AARON F 26d
18667000 CONSTANT DOWNFORCE ASSEMBLY FOR CONTACT LENS-BASED WIDE ANGLE VISUALIZATION RICKEL, ALEX PARK 41d
18971382 REGION-SPECIFIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGERIES JACOB, OOMMEN 63d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Alcon 4
BELKIN VISION LTD. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37972
28722
37921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18971382 REGION-SPECIFIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGERIES Alcon Inc. JACOB, OOMMEN 3797 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Dec 06, 2024
18780546 System for treatment of the eye BELKIN VISION LTD. ROANE, AARON F 3792 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 23, 2024
18667000 CONSTANT DOWNFORCE ASSEMBLY FOR CONTACT LENS-BASED WIDE ANGLE VISUALIZATION Alcon Inc. RICKEL, ALEX PARK 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 17, 2024
18536516 REAL-TIME SURGICAL REFERENCE INDICIUM APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL APPLICATIONS Alcon Inc. SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 3797 §101 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2023
18174469 COMMON PATH WAVEGUIDES FOR STABLE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING Alcon Inc. ABDUR, RAHMAN 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 24, 2023

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