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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujikura Composites Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates a diversified approach to its current patent filings.
The busiest examiner, WOLCOTT, BRIAN P, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each handling 1 of the 2 pending office actions, the company must coordinate across multiple prosecution paths simultaneously. This requires the company to adapt to different examination styles across its portfolio.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 2 pending office actions cover different technical aspects within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Managing 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units adds a layer of complexity to the company's patent strategy. This distribution ensures that the company's intellectual property efforts are not concentrated on a single point of contact.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 1 | 77.3% | +30.6% |
| FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1 | 59.0% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675945 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675945 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 28d |
| 18676936 | GOLF CLUB SHAFT, GOLF CLUB, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GOLF CLUB SHAFT | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18676936 | GOLF CLUB SHAFT, GOLF CLUB, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GOLF CLUB SHAFT | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18675945 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1788 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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