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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kito Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. The current workload for Kito Corporation consists of this single pending matter, reflecting a highly specific prosecution stage.
Because the 1 distinct examiner handles the entire pending workload, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized under LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY. This concentration in the 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's active matters. For practitioners, this means the company's active patent office interactions are currently limited to this one specific examiner and technical unit. The current workload represents the totality of the company's examiner interaction in this area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.9% | +34.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267114 | HANGING METAL FITTING AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HANGING METAL FITTING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18267114 | HANGING METAL FITTING AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HANGING METAL FITTING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKito Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Daniel Jeremy Leeds has the most, with 1 of Kito Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
