`Response to Restriction Requirement mailed July 19, 2023
`
`Attorney Docket No. 46682-7013 19
`
`REMARKS
`
`
`Claims 49-68 are currently pending. No claims have been amended. Claims 49-58 have
`
`been withdrawn as being directed io non-elected subject matter. Applicant reserves the right to
`
`pursue the subject matter of the cancelled claims in this or any other appropriate patent application.
`
`No newmatter is added.
`
`Upon entry of the proposed amendments, claims 59-68 will be under exarnination.
`
`Restriction Requirement
`
`In the Restriction Requirernent mailed July 19, 2023, the Office issued a restriction
`
`requirement pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 121 alleging that the application contains claims directed to
`
`the following patentably distinct inventions:
`
`Group f-
`
`Claims 49-58, drawn to composition, classified in AGIK47/02
`
`Group IL:
`
`Claims 59-68, drawn to a method of treat the pre-myopia, myopia or
`
`progression of myopia, classified in AGIK9/8
`
`Applicant elects Group 0 without traverse. Claims 59-68 encompass the elected group.
`
`Applicant notes that the coversheet of the Restriction Requirement mailed July 19, 2023, indicates
`
`claims 49-68 are rejected and not subject to restriction. Applicant respectfully requests clarification
`
`that this designation of the claims was inadvertent.
`
`Applicant reserves the right pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 121 to file one or more divisional
`
`applications directed to the non-elected inventions during the pendencyof the present application,
`
`or request rejoinder of withdrawn claims when an allowable claims set is reached.
`
`
`
`U.S. Serial No. 17/721.831
`Response to Restriction Requirement mailed July 19, 2023
`
`Attorney Docket No. 46682-7013 19
`
`CONCLUSION
`
`Applicants respectfully solicit the Examiner to expedite prosecution of this patent
`
`application to issuance. Should the Examiner have any questions, the Examineris encouraged to
`
`telephone the undersigned attorney at (858) 350-2314. The Commissioneris hereby authorized to
`
`charge any fees that may be required, or credit any overpayment to Deposit Account No. 23-2415,
`
`rd
`referencing Attorney Docket No. 46682-7013 19.
`
`Respectfully submitted,
`
`WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
`A Professional Corporation
`
`By:
`
`/Erin A Boyle Anderson/
`Erin A. Boyle Anderson
`Registration No. 78,136
`
`Date: October 19, 2023
`
`650 Page Mill Road
`Palo Alto, CA 94304
`(858) 350-2314
`Customer No. 21971
`
`