Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujikin Incorporated maintains 4 pending office actions across the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, resulting in a distribution where each case is reviewed by a different individual. This suggests that the company's prosecution is decentralized, with each application following its own independent path.
The pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the examiners are all different, the technical subject matter is concentrated within 3 specialized areas of Chemistry & Materials. Practitioners can expect the examiners to have relevant technical expertise for the specific art units involved in the current workload.
KELSEY E CARY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This is consistent with the fact that the distinct examiners are each handling a single case. Without any examiner overlap beyond the 1 action managed by KELSEY E CARY, the company's legal team must manage independent prosecution tracks for each matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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% | +24.9% |
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.3% | +22.1% |
| LEE, AIDEN Y | 1 | 47.8% | +25.3% |
| KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1 | 44.0% | +31.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044184 | GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 30d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044184 | GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 30d overdue |
| 18247489 | VAPORIZER, GAS SUPPLY APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING GAS SUPPLY APPARATUS | LEE, AIDEN Y | 33d |
| 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 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223697 | ACTUATOR AND VALVE DEVICE | CARY, KELSEY E | — | §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 |
| 18247489 | VAPORIZER, GAS SUPPLY APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING GAS SUPPLY APPARATUS | LEE, AIDEN Y | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18044184 | GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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