Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kenwood Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within a single art unit suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical classification of the pending matters is consistent.
The busiest examiner for the company is ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 total pending actions. Since 2 distinct examiners are involved, each one is handling exactly 1 of the pending matters, ensuring that no single individual manages the entire pending portfolio.
For a practitioner, the fact that 2 pending office actions are in 1 distinct art unit is significant. It means that the prosecution strategy can be informed by the specific policies of that single unit, even though 2 different examiners must be addressed. This provides a level of consistency in the technical standards applied, even as the practitioner navigates the individual preferences of ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L and the other involved examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.7% | +10.7% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18016505 | FOOD PROCESSING APPLIANCE AND FASCIA THEREFOR | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 50d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769367 | COOKING APPLIANCE AND HEATING ARRANGEMENT THEREFOR | NORTON, JOHN J | 27d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769367 | COOKING APPLIANCE AND HEATING ARRANGEMENT THEREFOR | NORTON, JOHN J | 27d |
| 18016505 | FOOD PROCESSING APPLIANCE AND FASCIA THEREFOR | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 50d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18016505 | FOOD PROCESSING APPLIANCE AND FASCIA THEREFOR | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 17769367 | COOKING APPLIANCE AND HEATING ARRANGEMENT THEREFOR | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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