Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio includes 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. MORRISON, THOMAS A, is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The examiner count matches the pending-action count, while the art-unit count is lower, indicating that at least some matters share technical examination groupings even though the examiners differ. Counsel should coordinate recurring technical positions across those art units while maintaining examiner-specific responses. No examiner carries more than the identified level of pending activity.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.1% | +30.1% |
| DAVISON, LAURA L | 1 | 32.5% | +37.0% |
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 1 | 55.0% | +15.6% |
| SCOTT, JACOB S | 1 | 87.5% | +17.8% |
| GONZALEZ, LUIS A | 1 | 84.9% | +4.5% |
| KENIRY, HEATHER J | 1 | 78.1% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572111 | ARTICLE CONVEYING SYSTEM | SCOTT, JACOB S | 19d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245020 | METHOD FOR TAKING OUT PAPER SHEETS AND PAPER SHEET TAKE-OUT PROCESSING SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, LUIS A | 45d overdue |
| 18846100 | DECELERATION MECHANISM | DAVISON, LAURA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17309353 | OBJECT GRASPING SYSTEM | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 43d overdue |
| 18572111 | ARTICLE CONVEYING SYSTEM | SCOTT, JACOB S | 19d overdue |
| 19172346 | PAPER SHEET SEPARATION TRANSPORT DEVICE AND PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE | MORRISON, THOMAS A | — |
| 18846100 | DECELERATION MECHANISM | DAVISON, LAURA L | — |
| 18728399 | BILL PROCESSOR | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172346 | PAPER SHEET SEPARATION TRANSPORT DEVICE AND PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18846100 | DECELERATION MECHANISM | DAVISON, LAURA L | 3993 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18728399 | BILL PROCESSOR | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18572111 | ARTICLE CONVEYING SYSTEM | SCOTT, JACOB S | 3655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18245020 | METHOD FOR TAKING OUT PAPER SHEETS AND PAPER SHEET TAKE-OUT PROCESSING SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, LUIS A | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
| 17309353 | OBJECT GRASPING SYSTEM | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialJapan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Thomas A Morrison has the most, with 1 of Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
