Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. has 13 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions are assigned to 13 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are therefore fully distributed, while the smaller art-unit count shows that several matters share technical examination groupings.
ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than one action, so the practical management challenge lies in coordinating many individual examiner relationships within recurring art-unit categories. Counsel should organize common claim terminology and prior-art themes by art unit, then tailor amendments and interview preparation to each examiner.
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 | 3 (23%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARSH, STEVEN M | 1 | 79.5% | +7.2% |
| ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.1% | +21.6% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.2% | +3.8% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.2% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.5% | +22.7% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 1 | 77.8% | +25.5% |
| LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | 1 | 83.8% | +20.0% |
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001712 | INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18764694 | CANISTER | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19188147 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED COMPONENT | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | — |
| 19177186 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FORMED PRODUCT | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19086257 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 19039117 | BODY MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BODY MEMBER | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
| 18776553 | CANISTER | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
| 18761666 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIPE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19177186 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FORMED PRODUCT | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19086257 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 19001712 | INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18776553 | CANISTER | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
| 18774536 | CANISTER | BUI, DUNG H | — |
| 18764694 | CANISTER | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — |
| 18761666 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIPE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 3 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19312910 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE UNIT | MARSH, STEVEN M | 3631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19188147 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED COMPONENT | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19177186 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FORMED PRODUCT | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19086257 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19039117 | BODY MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BODY MEMBER | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 3612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19001712 | INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT | BEMKO, TARAS P | 3672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18776553 | CANISTER | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18774536 | CANISTER | BUI, DUNG H | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18764694 | CANISTER | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | 1776 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18761666 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIPE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18758000 | EVAPORATED FUEL TREATMENT DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF EVAPORATED FUEL TREATMENT DEVICE | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18610677 | FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | 1772 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18429965 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF METAL MEMBER | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFutaba Industrial Co., Ltd. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 13 examiners.
Steven M Marsh has the most, with 1 of Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
