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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elecom Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. ANTOINE, LISA HOPE is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending action. This action represents the entire current pending workload for the company's patent portfolio. The concentration of the prosecution into a single examiner and art unit indicates a focused technical matter.
For a practitioner, this indicates that the immediate prosecution strategy is entirely centralized under ANTOINE, LISA HOPE. The lack of multiple examiners or art units simplifies the management of this portfolio, as there are no competing timelines or differing examiner styles to navigate across the 1 pending action. This centralized approach ensures that all communication and negotiation with the patent office are handled by a single individual within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The 1 pending action serves as the focal point for the company's current efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 1 | 16.1% | +67.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027613 | BUTTON AND CONTROLLER FOR GAME | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027613 | BUTTON AND CONTROLLER FOR GAME | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19027613 | BUTTON AND CONTROLLER FOR GAME | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialElecom Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lisa Hope Antoine has the most, with 1 of Elecom Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
