Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd. currently has 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 7 pending office actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, which indicates that each application is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution ensures that the company's current prosecution workload is not concentrated under any single examiner's discretion.
The 7 pending office actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, suggesting that at least two applications share an administrative unit while the others are handled separately. SAMEH TAWFIK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This confirms that the workload is evenly divided among the 7 distinct examiners, as no single person is responsible for more than 1 of the pending cases.
For practitioners, the primary challenge is managing 7 unique examiner relationships within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. While the 6 distinct art units provide some administrative commonality, the diversity of examiners requires a tailored approach for each of the 7 pending office actions. Strategy should focus on identifying any shared procedural trends within the art units that house multiple applications, while remaining attentive to the individual preferences of the 7 distinct examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
| SONG, HIMCHAN | 1 | 86.5% | +11.9% |
| POWERS, LAURA C | 1 | 56.3% | +47.3% |
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
| ATTEL, NINA KAY | 1 | 41.5% | +28.0% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 1 | 66.6% | +25.0% |
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277934 | CONTAINER MULTILAYERED BODY, CONTAINER, MEDICAL CONTAINER, AND DRUG-CONTAINING MEDICAL CONTAINER | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 51d overdue |
| 18547695 | CONTROLLER FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, POUCH, CONTROL METHOD FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 61d |
| 18962003 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG, SEALING MEMBER USED TO PRODUCE THE SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG, AND SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG PRODUCED BY THE METHOD FOR PRODUCING SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG | SONG, HIMCHAN | — |
| 18726890 | PACKAGING BAG LAMINATE, PACKAGING BAG, SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG, AND CONTENT-CONTAINED SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| 18726898 | PACKAGING BAG LAMINATE, PACKAGING BAG, SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG, AND CONTENT-CONTAINED SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277934 | CONTAINER MULTILAYERED BODY, CONTAINER, MEDICAL CONTAINER, AND DRUG-CONTAINING MEDICAL CONTAINER | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 51d overdue |
| 18724486 | ZIPPER AND ZIPPER-ATTACHED MICROWAVE OVEN APPLICABLE PACKAGING BAG | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 21d |
| 18547695 | CONTROLLER FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, POUCH, CONTROL METHOD FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 61d |
| 19060108 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECTANGULAR-BOTTOMED PACKAGING BAG, DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING RECTANGULAR-BOTTOMED PACKAGING BAG, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGING BODY, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGING BODY | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| 18962003 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG, SEALING MEMBER USED TO PRODUCE THE SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG, AND SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG PRODUCED BY THE METHOD FOR PRODUCING SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG | SONG, HIMCHAN | — |
| 18726890 | PACKAGING BAG LAMINATE, PACKAGING BAG, SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG, AND CONTENT-CONTAINED SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| 18726898 | PACKAGING BAG LAMINATE, PACKAGING BAG, SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG, AND CONTENT-CONTAINED SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060108 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECTANGULAR-BOTTOMED PACKAGING BAG, DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING RECTANGULAR-BOTTOMED PACKAGING BAG, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGING BODY, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGING BODY | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18962003 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG, SEALING MEMBER USED TO PRODUCE THE SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG, AND SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG PRODUCED BY THE METHOD FOR PRODUCING SELF-STANDING PACKAGING BAG | SONG, HIMCHAN | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18726890 | PACKAGING BAG LAMINATE, PACKAGING BAG, SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG, AND CONTENT-CONTAINED SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG | POWERS, LAURA C | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18726898 | PACKAGING BAG LAMINATE, PACKAGING BAG, SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG, AND CONTENT-CONTAINED SPOUT-ATTACHED PACKAGING BAG | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18724486 | ZIPPER AND ZIPPER-ATTACHED MICROWAVE OVEN APPLICABLE PACKAGING BAG | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18277934 | CONTAINER MULTILAYERED BODY, CONTAINER, MEDICAL CONTAINER, AND DRUG-CONTAINING MEDICAL CONTAINER | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18547695 | CONTROLLER FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, POUCH, CONTROL METHOD FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR POUCH-MAKING MACHINE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Sameh Tawfik has the most, with 1 of Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
