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
Fuji Oozx Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SULLIVAN, DEBRA M, who is also identified as the busiest examiner. This indicates a highly centralized prosecution effort where all current activity is managed by a single individual. The portfolio is further concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activities.
For practitioners, this alignment of the pending action, the examiner, and the art unit means that the perspective of SULLIVAN, DEBRA M and the specific practices of the 1 distinct art unit will define the entire prosecution landscape. There is no diversity in the current pending portfolio, so the strategy must be entirely focused on the requirements of this examiner. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technology is categorized under a specific classification. SULLIVAN, DEBRA M is the only examiner managing the 1 pending office action for Fuji Oozx Inc.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.5% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19106635 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR EPIPHYSIS PLATES | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106635 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR EPIPHYSIS PLATES | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFuji Oozx Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Debra M Sullivan has the most, with 1 of Fuji Oozx Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
