Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujitsu Frontech Systems Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, resulting in a 1 to 1 ratio where each active case is handled by a different person. This distribution requires the company to address 2 different examiner styles for its 2 pending matters. SANDERS, HOWARD J is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
The 2 pending office actions are both located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused technical scope for the company's current active matters. With 2 distinct examiners operating in 1 art unit, the company faces different individual preferences but a consistent set of art unit standards. Since SANDERS, HOWARD J only handles 1 pending action, he is responsible for 1 of the 2 active office actions. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 art unit while tailoring their responses to the individual feedback of the 2 examiners involved to advance these matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERS, HOWARD J | 1 | 81.1% | +7.9% |
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.0% | +30.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279709 | BANKNOTE CONVEYING APPARATUS, BANKNOTE CONVEYING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SANDERS, HOWARD J | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210511 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19279709 | BANKNOTE CONVEYING APPARATUS, BANKNOTE CONVEYING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SANDERS, HOWARD J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19210511 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
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