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
Jtekt Gear Systems Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the current workload reflects a narrow focus in the company's pending patent applications, with all prosecution efforts directed through a single administrative channel. This allows for a very specific legal focus but also means the company's immediate patenting success is tied to a specific area of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JOH, CATHERINE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner is the only one currently assigned to a pending action for the company, the prosecution strategy is entirely centered on this relationship. Practitioners should analyze the specific preferences and examination history of JOH, CATHERINE to effectively advance the Jtekt Gear Systems Corporation portfolio. Tailoring responses to the established patterns of this examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field will be essential for a successful outcome.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOH, CATHERINE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288853 | GEAR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, GEAR MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND THREADED TOOL FOR USE IN THE APPARATUS AND THE METHOD | JOH, CATHERINE | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288853 | GEAR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, GEAR MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND THREADED TOOL FOR USE IN THE APPARATUS AND THE METHOD | JOH, CATHERINE | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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