Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kitagawa Industries Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each active case is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage two separate examiner relationships, as there is no overlap in the personnel currently reviewing these matters.
The company's active cases are also spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the 2 pending office actions are being evaluated by different technical groups within the patent office. The busiest examiner, CIRIC, LJILJANA V, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently managing exactly 1 action. This spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests a decentralized prosecution profile where each of the pending office actions is subject to the specific standards of different technical and administrative environments.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIRIC, LJILJANA V | 1 | 77.2% | +22.2% |
| MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1 | 20.0% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034801 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861113 | THERMAL DIFFUSION MEMBER | CIRIC, LJILJANA V | — |
| 18034801 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861113 | THERMAL DIFFUSION MEMBER | CIRIC, LJILJANA V | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18034801 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
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