Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Daikyo Seiko Ltd. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions. These 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, which shows a high level of diversification in the prosecution of its portfolio. The pending matters are situated in 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering innovations are being evaluated by several different technical teams.
ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA is the busiest examiner, though she only holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for a portion of the workload, the prosecution is not concentrated under a single individual. The company must navigate the requirements of 3 distinct art units, which may have different examination cultures. Managing 4 distinct examiners, including ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA, requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency across the portfolio's various applications.
The presence of 4 pending office actions across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a broad technical footprint. Practitioners should be prepared for varying examiner styles, as the 1 busiest examiner pending office action is the maximum assigned to any individual official. This distribution reduces the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio but increases the administrative complexity of tracking multiple simultaneous prosecution tracks across 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.6% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| WENG, KAI H | 1 | 70.2% | +17.2% |
| GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 1 | 72.2% | +32.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020524 | PISTON | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 18d overdue |
| 18913266 | PACKAGING FOR CONTAINERS | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
| 18254727 | RUBBER STOPPER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020524 | PISTON | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 18d overdue |
| 18913266 | PACKAGING FOR CONTAINERS | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
| 18254727 | RUBBER STOPPER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| 18254814 | PLASTIC ADAPTER AND CLOSED SYSTEM DRUG TRANSFER DEVICE | WENG, KAI H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 2 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18913266 | PACKAGING FOR CONTAINERS | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18254727 | RUBBER STOPPER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18254814 | PLASTIC ADAPTER AND CLOSED SYSTEM DRUG TRANSFER DEVICE | WENG, KAI H | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18020524 | PISTON | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
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