Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Family Inada Co. Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical innovations are categorized into different technical niches. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, providing a varied review process for the pending applications. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations span multiple technical classifications within the mechanical engineering field.
BRIAN THAI-BINH KHONG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This accounts for a portion of the 2 total pending actions. The fact that the pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners means that no single examiner has a majority of the workload. Practitioners should prepare for different examination styles as the examiners operate in different art units.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units indicates that the legal strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of each unit. With BRIAN THAI-BINH KHONG handling 1 pending action, the portfolio's current momentum is divided across the involved personnel. This structure ensures that the company's success is not tied to the discretion of any one individual but is spread across 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners must manage these parallel tracks to ensure consistent results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 1 | 66.7% | +37.2% |
| BOHANNON, PAUL D | 1 | 97.9% | +0.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35525800 | Massage chair | BOHANNON, PAUL D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770524 | MASSAGE DEVICE AND MASSAGE UNIT | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770524 | MASSAGE DEVICE AND MASSAGE UNIT | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770524 | MASSAGE DEVICE AND MASSAGE UNIT | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 35525800 | Massage chair | BOHANNON, PAUL D | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFamily Inada Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Brian Thai-Binh Khong has the most, with 1 of Family Inada Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
