Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Amada Co., Ltd.

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§112 only1 (17%)

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
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 1 81.4% +25.4%
WALTERS, RYAN J 1 74.2% +29.2%
THONG, YEONG JUEN 1 48.3% +51.4%
EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 1 66.7% +17.1%
WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 1 50.4% +49.8%
OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE 1 55.6% +50.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18698804 PROTECTIVE GLASS CONTAMINATION DETECTION DEVICE AND PROTECTIVE GLASS CONTAMINATION DETECTION METHOD KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 49d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17801512 OPTICAL FIBER AND LASER PROCESSING MACHINE OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE 97d overdue
17909414 LASER PROCESSING MACHINE AND PROCESSING METHOD WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 73d overdue
17915378 LASER PROCESSING MONITORING DEVICE, LASER PROCESSING MONITORING METHOD, AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 50d overdue
18698804 PROTECTIVE GLASS CONTAMINATION DETECTION DEVICE AND PROTECTIVE GLASS CONTAMINATION DETECTION METHOD KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 49d overdue
18682501 WORKPIECE SUPPLY ROBOT AND WORKPIECE SUPPLY SYSTEM WALTERS, RYAN J 8d
18035739 SIDE NOZZLE, LASER WELDING MACHINE, AND LASER WELDING METHOD THONG, YEONG JUEN 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3761 4
2877 1
3799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18698804 PROTECTIVE GLASS CONTAMINATION DETECTION DEVICE AND PROTECTIVE GLASS CONTAMINATION DETECTION METHOD KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 2877 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18682501 WORKPIECE SUPPLY ROBOT AND WORKPIECE SUPPLY SYSTEM WALTERS, RYAN J 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18035739 SIDE NOZZLE, LASER WELDING MACHINE, AND LASER WELDING METHOD THONG, YEONG JUEN 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 06, 2023
17915378 LASER PROCESSING MONITORING DEVICE, LASER PROCESSING MONITORING METHOD, AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §112 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17909414 LASER PROCESSING MACHINE AND PROCESSING METHOD WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2022
17801512 OPTICAL FIBER AND LASER PROCESSING MACHINE OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE 3761 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022

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