Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujibo Holdings Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each application is being reviewed by a different official. The prosecution is also distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests a variety of technical focuses within the mechanical engineering sector. MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a decentralized prosecution environment. Since MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is divided among the assigned staff. This arrangement requires the company to manage 2 distinct examiners, each operating within a different art unit. For practitioners, this means that the strategy for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings must be tailored to the specific requirements of the different art units and their respective examiners.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.9% | +37.7% |
| RIOJA, MELISSA A | 1 | 49.5% | +53.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278838 | POLISHING PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLISHING PAD | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | — |
| 18278402 | POLISHING PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLISHING PAD | RIOJA, MELISSA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18278838 | POLISHING PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLISHING PAD | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18278402 | POLISHING PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLISHING PAD | RIOJA, MELISSA A | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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