Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
J. Morita Mfg. Corp. has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused but active presence in these fields. The prosecution is distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This high number of examiners relative to the 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is encountering many different individuals within a few specialized groups.
WEISBERG, AMY REGINA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. This distribution across 2 distinct art units requires the company to manage six different examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners should focus on the specific tendencies of each of the 6 distinct examiners, as their individual approaches will dictate the outcomes across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | 1 | 52.5% | +25.7% |
| TRAN, LOI H | 1 | 64.9% | +23.5% |
| MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM | 1 | 33.3% | +80.0% |
| KIM, KIHO | 1 | 85.4% | +4.5% |
| CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | 1 | 88.7% | +13.6% |
| PERKINS, THEODORE L | 1 | 72.8% | +15.6% |
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.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227655 | DENTAL HANDPIECE | WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | — |
| 19086431 | Data Processing Apparatus, Data Processing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Storing Data Processing Program | MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM | — |
| 18900245 | Data Generation Method, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Data Generation Program, and Data Generation Apparatus | CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643673 | LINEAR MOTOR AND MEDICAL CARE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | PERKINS, THEODORE L | 31d overdue |
| 19227655 | DENTAL HANDPIECE | WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | — |
| 19185358 | Medical Care Apparatus | TRAN, LOI H | — |
| 19086431 | Data Processing Apparatus, Data Processing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Storing Data Processing Program | MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM | — |
| 18900245 | Data Generation Method, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Data Generation Program, and Data Generation Apparatus | CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227655 | DENTAL HANDPIECE | WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19185358 | Medical Care Apparatus | TRAN, LOI H | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19086431 | Data Processing Apparatus, Data Processing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Storing Data Processing Program | MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19021362 | RADIATION IMAGE SCANNER | KIM, KIHO | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18900245 | Data Generation Method, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Data Generation Program, and Data Generation Apparatus | CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18643673 | LINEAR MOTOR AND MEDICAL CARE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | PERKINS, THEODORE L | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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