Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Japan Cash Machine Co. Ltd. has a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are 5 pending office actions currently being prosecuted. These actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, indicating a clustering of the company's technology in specific examination categories. The focus on 2 distinct art units suggests a more specialized technical range compared to portfolios spread across more units in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners. Thomas A Morrison is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The use of 5 distinct examiners across only 2 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners within the same technical groups are reviewing the company's applications. This means that while the technology is concentrated in 2 distinct art units, the company still interacts with five different individuals during prosecution, with Thomas A Morrison being one of those examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 | 74.0% | +30.3% |
| DAVISON, LAURA L | 1 | 32.6% | +36.9% |
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 1 | 55.1% | +15.8% |
| SCOTT, JACOB S | 1 | 87.4% | +18.1% |
| GONZALEZ, LUIS A | 1 | 84.9% | +4.6% |
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.
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 3655 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18728399 | BILL PROCESSOR | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — | §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 |
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