Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Izawa Towel Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This focused prosecution profile indicates a singular point of contact at the USPTO for the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. Having 1 pending office action allows the company to focus its resources on a single examiner's requirements.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is highly concentrated. Practitioners can develop a very specific approach tailored to the preferences of MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H. This single pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector represents the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. The lack of multiple pending actions or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there are no competing procedural demands from different USPTO divisions.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 1 | 66.6% | -10.7% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18863429 | TOWEL CLOTH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
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