Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujita Academy currently has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, with BEKELE, MEKONEN T serving as the busiest examiner.
The busiest examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner shows that the 4 pending office actions are distributed individually among the 4 distinct examiners. The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the Communications filings cover multiple technical categories.
Practitioners should monitor the 4 pending office actions across these 3 distinct art units to ensure a cohesive approach. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company interacts with a different official for every case. The 1 pending office action assigned to BEKELE, MEKONEN T is 1 of the 4 pending office actions currently active.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 1 | 79.2% | +13.6% |
| KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1 | 44.9% | +20.2% |
| WAX, ROBERT A | 1 | 25.7% | +3.9% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 54.2% | +54.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18695605 | BONE REPAIR DEVICE AND SURGICAL KIT | WAX, ROBERT A | 84d |
| 19015665 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | — |
| 18877261 | TISSUE REGENERATION PROMOTION SHEET | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | — |
| 18454781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015665 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | — |
| 18877261 | TISSUE REGENERATION PROMOTION SHEET | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | — |
| 18454781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2699 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015665 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 2699 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18877261 | TISSUE REGENERATION PROMOTION SHEET | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18695605 | BONE REPAIR DEVICE AND SURGICAL KIT | WAX, ROBERT A | 1615 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18454781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFujita Academy has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Mekonen T Bekele has the most, with 1 of Fujita Academy's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
