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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujikin Incorporated has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner variation within a shared technical examination area.
CARY, KELSEY E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the common art-unit setting to identify technical context while preparing for separate examiner interactions.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARY, KELSEY E | 1 | 75.0% | +24.8% |
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.4% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223697 | ACTUATOR AND VALVE DEVICE | CARY, KELSEY E | — |
| 18755314 | FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE AND ZERO POINT ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR PIEZO VALVE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223697 | ACTUATOR AND VALVE DEVICE | CARY, KELSEY E | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 18755314 | FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE AND ZERO POINT ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR PIEZO VALVE | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFujikin Incorporated has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Kelsey E Cary has the most, with 1 of Fujikin Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
