Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kiyomoto Iron & Machinery Works Co. Ltd. is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This singular active matter represents the company's current focus in its intellectual property strategy. The presence of a machinery-focused company in the biotechnology sector suggests a specialized application of mechanical technology in biological fields.
The prosecution environment for this portfolio is highly centralized, with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved. This indicates that the company's active patent claims are being reviewed by a single official within a specialized division of the USPTO. This narrow focus means that the company's immediate success is tied to the technical standards and precedents of that 1 distinct art unit.
RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner for the company's active filings, their individual perspective on the claims will determine the immediate outcome of the prosecution. Practitioners should analyze the specific examination tendencies of this official to move the 1 pending office action toward allowance in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 1 | 33.6% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699406 | ENTERITIS-SUPPRESSING COMPOSITION | RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699406 | ENTERITIS-SUPPRESSING COMPOSITION | RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 1628 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKiyomoto Iron & Machinery Works Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rayna B Rodriguez has the most, with 1 of Kiyomoto Iron & Machinery Works Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
