Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujifilm North America Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action. This activity is categorized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution is concentrated, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R, who is assigned 1 pending office action. This represents the total pending workload for the corporation at this time. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical application within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Because there is 1 pending office action, the immediate progress of the portfolio depends on the resolution of the matter with DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific requirements of the technology area as handled by this examiner. This concentration of activity provides a clear path for resolving the current prosecution matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, QUANG N | 1 | 72.4% | +6.2% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18602688 | FRAMELESS FOLD-OVER CARDSTOCK PRINT DISPLAY ARTICLE | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18964916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING AND/OR SELECTING MEDIA FOR PRINTING A DIGITAL IMAGE | VO, QUANG N | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18602688 | FRAMELESS FOLD-OVER CARDSTOCK PRINT DISPLAY ARTICLE | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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