Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 3 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ishida Co., Ltd. has 10 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 10 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This shows that every pending action is assigned to a different individual. With 10 pending office actions, the company has a small but entirely decentralized portfolio in terms of examiner assignment.
PALMER, LUCAS E A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 10 pending office actions and 10 distinct examiners, no examiner handles more than one case. The 3 distinct art units provide a relatively narrow organizational focus for these 10 actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This means that while the technical scope is limited, the examiner variety is maximized.
Practitioners must approach each of the 10 pending office actions as a unique interaction. Because there are 10 distinct examiners, there is no opportunity to apply lessons learned from one examiner to another within this portfolio. The 3 distinct art units are the only common organizational elements for the 10 pending office actions. Success requires a case-specific strategy for every filing to navigate the patent office effectively.
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 | 6 (55%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
| PALMER, LUCAS E A | 1 | 80.2% | +16.7% |
| AHMED, MOBEEN | 1 | 61.5% | +7.6% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 83.1% | +10.5% |
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.3% | +35.4% |
| GIBSON, RANDY W | 1 | 75.7% | +22.2% |
| CAMPBELL, KEITH | 1 | 89.7% | +0.9% |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.6% | +9.0% |
| FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 1 | 61.9% | +43.4% |
| LEE, KYUNG S | 1 | 87.2% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19433379 | FILM SUPPLY DEVICE AND BAG-MAKING-PACKAGING MACHINE | PALMER, LUCAS E A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037180 | PUSHING MECHANISM AND BOX PACKAGING DEVICE | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 31d overdue |
| 19565216 | BOXING APPARATUS | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| 19057574 | X-RAY INSPECTION DEVICE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| 18907133 | CONVEYANCE APPARATUS | CAMPBELL, KEITH | — |
| 18603238 | STRAIN GAUGE COMPONENT, LOAD CELL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LOAD CELL | LEE, KYUNG S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037180 | PUSHING MECHANISM AND BOX PACKAGING DEVICE | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 31d overdue |
| 18743516 | ARTICLE-TRANSFER APPARATUS | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 17d overdue |
| 19565216 | BOXING APPARATUS | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| 19433379 | FILM SUPPLY DEVICE AND BAG-MAKING-PACKAGING MACHINE | PALMER, LUCAS E A | — |
| 19057574 | X-RAY INSPECTION DEVICE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| 18930722 | COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS | GIBSON, RANDY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 5 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19565216 | BOXING APPARATUS | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2026 |
| 19433379 | FILM SUPPLY DEVICE AND BAG-MAKING-PACKAGING MACHINE | PALMER, LUCAS E A | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2025 |
| 19368656 | FOLDING APPARATUS AND SEALING APPARATUS | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19057574 | X-RAY INSPECTION DEVICE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19037180 | PUSHING MECHANISM AND BOX PACKAGING DEVICE | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2025 |
| 18930722 | COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS | GIBSON, RANDY W | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18907133 | CONVEYANCE APPARATUS | CAMPBELL, KEITH | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18900677 | SEAL-CHECKER AND PACKAGING-AND-INSPECTION SYSTEM | MORELLO, JEAN F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2024 |
| 18743516 | ARTICLE-TRANSFER APPARATUS | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18603238 | STRAIN GAUGE COMPONENT, LOAD CELL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LOAD CELL | LEE, KYUNG S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18602882 | COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS | HULS, NATALIE F | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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