Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cintas Corporate Services Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single art unit. Robert H Muromoto Jr is the busiest examiner with the only pending office action. The company's current prosecution activity is limited to this single matter, which represents the whole of its pending portfolio.
All administrative and legal focus is directed toward the review conducted by Robert H Muromoto Jr, making his specific examination approach the central factor for the company's immediate patent goals. With only a single examiner and a single art unit involved, the company can develop a highly specialized strategy for this application. Success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector for this portfolio depends on meeting the specific technical standards and procedural expectations of Robert H Muromoto Jr and his department.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 1 | 66.6% | -10.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977014 | QUICK DRY TOWEL | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977014 | QUICK DRY TOWEL | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 3732 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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