Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Citizen Machinery Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in its current portfolio. This matter is handled by a distinct examiner, focusing the company's prosecution resources on a single point of contact. BAYAN SALONE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This reflects the current pending workload for the company at the USPTO. Because there is only a single pending office action, the company's immediate intellectual property goals are centered on the resolution of this specific case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALONE, BAYAN | 1 | 76.2% | +17.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846858 | MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846858 | MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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