Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Kanefusa Kabushiki Kaisha

3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
§102 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MICHALSKI, SEAN M 1 52.5% +13.1%
DONG, LIANG 1 52.4% +32.3%
DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN 1 36.6% +30.0%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18695085 CIRCULAR SAW BLADE MICHALSKI, SEAN M
18288319 TIPPED CIRCULAR SAW BLADE DONG, LIANG
18273250 Long Cutting Knife DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3724 3

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18695085 CIRCULAR SAW BLADE MICHALSKI, SEAN M 3724 §102 Final Rejection Pending Mar 25, 2024
18288319 TIPPED CIRCULAR SAW BLADE DONG, LIANG 3724 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 25, 2023
18273250 Long Cutting Knife DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN 3724 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2023

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