Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Vista Ip Law Group, LLP (Magic Leap, Inc.)

14 pending office actions • 2 clients • 14 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (71%)
1
Easy (7%)
3
Unknown (21%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (71%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record3 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
10
Communications
71% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, PREMAL R 1 78.0% +6.3%
ZHOU, HONG 1 77.0% +17.1%
TZENG, FRED 1 86.8% +3.9%
KHAN, IBRAHIM A 1 81.9% +12.7%
TAHA, AHMED 1 66.7% +60.0%
PATEL, JITESH 1 78.6% +12.3%
LETT, THOMAS J 1 83.6% -35.9%
CHANG, AUDREY Y 1 46.9% +20.5%
NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 1 88.5% +10.7%
OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY 1 54.9% +56.3%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18635985 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 9d
18913870 SYSTEM FOR ASSISTED OPERATOR SAFETY USING AN HMD KHAN, IBRAHIM A 12d
18814248 VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING IMPROVED DIFFRACTIVE GRATING STRUCTURES LETT, THOMAS J 29d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19063753 EXTERNAL USER INTERFACE FOR HEAD WORN COMPUTING ZHOU, HONG 30d overdue
18802429 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL CONTENT DISPLAY WITH A VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS CHANG, AUDREY Y 11d overdue
18820103 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY PATEL, JITESH 1d overdue
18635985 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 9d
18913870 SYSTEM FOR ASSISTED OPERATOR SAFETY USING AN HMD KHAN, IBRAHIM A 12d
18600439 BROWSER FOR MIXED REALITY SYSTEMS OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY 29d
18820793 SPATIAL LOCATION PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING TAHA, AHMED 55d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
MAGIC LEAP, INC. 8
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC 6

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26132
26241
26291
26251
26281
26121
26111
28721
26721
21181

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19208518 EYE GLINT IMAGING IN SEE-THROUGH COMPUTER DISPLAY SYSTEMS Mentor Acquisition One, LLC PATEL, PREMAL R 2624 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 14, 2025
19063753 EXTERNAL USER INTERFACE FOR HEAD WORN COMPUTING Mentor Acquisition One, LLC ZHOU, HONG 2629 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2025
18875645 OPTICAL LAYERS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF EYEPIECES FOR USE WITH VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEMS Magic Leap, Inc. TZENG, FRED 2625 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 16, 2024
18913870 SYSTEM FOR ASSISTED OPERATOR SAFETY USING AN HMD Mentor Acquisition One, LLC KHAN, IBRAHIM A 2628 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 11, 2024
18820793 SPATIAL LOCATION PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING Mentor Acquisition One, LLC TAHA, AHMED 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18820103 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY Magic Leap, Inc. PATEL, JITESH 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18814248 VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING IMPROVED DIFFRACTIVE GRATING STRUCTURES Magic Leap, Inc. LETT, THOMAS J 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18802429 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL CONTENT DISPLAY WITH A VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS Magic Leap, Inc. CHANG, AUDREY Y 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18635985 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY Magic Leap, Inc. NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18600439 BROWSER FOR MIXED REALITY SYSTEMS Magic Leap, Inc. OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY 2118 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 08, 2024
18505949 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE LAUNCH SYSTEM Mentor Acquisition One, LLC WANG, JINGLI 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18490518 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY Magic Leap, Inc. LHYMN, SARAH 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Oct 19, 2023
17261854 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTERNAL LIGHT MANAGEMENT Magic Leap, Inc. LE, BAO-LUAN Q 2882 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2021
14802878 EXTERNAL USER INTERFACE FOR HEAD WORN COMPUTING Mentor Acquisition One, LLC JANSEN II, MICHAEL J 2626 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2015

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