Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujita Academy is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being handled by a different person. These 3 actions are spread across 2 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BEKELE, MEKONEN T, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner managing exactly one action. This structure suggests that the company's research in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals covers multiple specialized areas.
Practitioners must manage interactions with 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. While the workload is small, the lack of concentration means that strategies may need to be tailored for each of the 3 pending office actions. The resolution of these matters will depend on the specific requirements of each examiner and their respective art units.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 | 79.1% | +13.7% |
| WAX, ROBERT A | 1 | 25.0% | +3.9% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 53.7% | +55.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 | — |
| 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 2 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 | — |
| 18454781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 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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