Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kitz Corporation has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate examination paths.
REID, MICHAEL ROBERT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The small docket supports direct application-level management with coordinated technical positions where appropriate.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 79.0% | +19.2% |
| SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 1 | 86.2% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566810 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND VALVE SYSTEM | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107323 | ROTARY VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| 18566810 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND VALVE SYSTEM | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107323 | ROTARY VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18566810 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND VALVE SYSTEM | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKitz Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michael Robert Reid has the most, with 1 of Kitz Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
