Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Daiwa Can Company currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each examiner is currently handling exactly one pending action for the company. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a variety of technical sub-sectors within the broader mechanical engineering field.
THAKUR, VIREN A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 of the pending office actions. Because each of the 6 distinct examiners is assigned only 1 action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the current prosecution staff. For a practitioner, this means that no single examiner's specific tendencies will dominate the company's current experience at the patent office. The spread across 3 art units further ensures that the company's applications are being evaluated by multiple specialized technical groups rather than a single concentrated unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THAKUR, VIREN A | 1 | 13.4% | +26.6% |
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.9% | +17.4% |
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.9% | +11.6% |
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
| PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H | 1 | 74.1% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047301 | FILM, PACKAGE, AND CONTENTS-CONTAINING PACKAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 18672658 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN CONTAINER AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | POON, ROBERT | — |
| 18003887 | DETERIORATION ESTIMATE SYSTEM | PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842429 | STRUCTURE OF OPENING CURLED PORTION OF BOTTLE-SHAPED CAN | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 70d |
| 19047301 | FILM, PACKAGE, AND CONTENTS-CONTAINING PACKAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 19022918 | PATCH | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | — |
| 18672658 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN CONTAINER AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | POON, ROBERT | — |
| 18003887 | DETERIORATION ESTIMATE SYSTEM | PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 2 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047301 | FILM, PACKAGE, AND CONTENTS-CONTAINING PACKAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19022918 | PATCH | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18842429 | STRUCTURE OF OPENING CURLED PORTION OF BOTTLE-SHAPED CAN | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18672658 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN CONTAINER AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18003887 | DETERIORATION ESTIMATE SYSTEM | PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H | 2189 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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