Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 82 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fuji Corporation is currently navigating 16 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 12 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical range for the company's pending applications. Prosecution involves 16 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions. This distribution suggests that each application is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring a versatile approach to advocacy.
Thien T. Mai is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The fact that 16 different examiners are involved across 12 art units suggests that Fuji Corporation must manage a wide variety of examiner preferences and unit-specific procedures. This level of dispersion for 16 actions requires the legal team to adapt their strategies to the specific expectations of many different technical branches. The presence of 12 distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field highlights the diverse nature of the company's mechanical innovations. Practitioners should focus on maintaining consistency across these 12 units while addressing the individual styles of the 16 examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (19%) |
| §103 only | 1 (6%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, THIEN T | 1 | 59.2% | +19.8% |
| YESILDAG, MEHMET | 1 | 34.0% | +28.1% |
| SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 67.4% | +32.9% |
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
| VARNDELL, ROSS E | 1 | 84.7% | +13.3% |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 67.7% | +25.4% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| TORRES, JOSE | 1 | 82.0% | +12.2% |
| ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 1 | 68.8% | +19.5% |
| ADDISU, SARA | 1 | 85.4% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688815 | FORWARD-FACING TWO-SPINDLE LATHE | ADDISU, SARA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691695 | MOVING BODY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | TORRES, JOSE | 31d overdue |
| 18403821 | MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | 14d |
| 19474829 | COMPONENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT METHOD | MAI, THIEN T | — |
| 18998912 | REMOTE OPERATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE OPERATION NOTIFICATION METHOD | YESILDAG, MEHMET | — |
| 18839764 | SETUP SYSTEM AND SETUP METHOD | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18706829 | CONTROL DEVICE, FOREIGN SUBSTANCE REMOVAL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 18701338 | DETECTION METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | — |
| 18696553 | CIRCUIT FORMING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691695 | MOVING BODY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | TORRES, JOSE | 31d overdue |
| 19474829 | COMPONENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT METHOD | MAI, THIEN T | — |
| 18998912 | REMOTE OPERATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE OPERATION NOTIFICATION METHOD | YESILDAG, MEHMET | — |
| 18839764 | SETUP SYSTEM AND SETUP METHOD | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18706829 | CONTROL DEVICE, FOREIGN SUBSTANCE REMOVAL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 18701338 | DETECTION METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | — |
| 18688936 | BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM AND BEHAVIOR MONITORING METHOD | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — |
| 18688815 | FORWARD-FACING TWO-SPINDLE LATHE | ADDISU, SARA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474829 | COMPONENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT METHOD | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
| 18998912 | REMOTE OPERATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE OPERATION NOTIFICATION METHOD | YESILDAG, MEHMET | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18839764 | SETUP SYSTEM AND SETUP METHOD | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18728182 | TAPE CONVEYANCE ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC TAPE LOADING DEVICE | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18706829 | CONTROL DEVICE, FOREIGN SUBSTANCE REMOVAL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18701338 | DETECTION METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18696553 | CIRCUIT FORMING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18691695 | MOVING BODY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | TORRES, JOSE | 2664 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18688936 | BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM AND BEHAVIOR MONITORING METHOD | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18688815 | FORWARD-FACING TWO-SPINDLE LATHE | ADDISU, SARA | 3722 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18686661 | AUTOMATIC MOVEMENT DEVICE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | LOGAN, KYLE O | 3655 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18291040 | END EFFECTOR AND DETACHING/AFFIXING DEVICE | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18403821 | MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | 3726 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18547360 | DETERMINATION DEVICE | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18001005 | SOLDER PRINTING MACHINE INCLUDING A SEPARATELY PROVIDED MASK FRAME AND SQUEEGEE FRAME | THOMAS, BINU | 1717 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17906424 | DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD | BAKER, IRENE H | 2154 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
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