Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (25%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§102 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL 1 71.9% +21.2%
DEMIE, TIGIST S 1 74.9% +21.0%
GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES 1 28.1% +47.0%
BROWN, KYLE MARTZ 1 9.4% +4.2%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17050547 INTERDENTAL CLEANING TOOL GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES 149d overdue
17335840 ADHESIVE SHEET BROWN, KYLE MARTZ

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17050547 INTERDENTAL CLEANING TOOL GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES 149d overdue
18553444 FILM USED FOR OUTER BAG FOR CHEMICAL BODY WARMER FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL 31d overdue
18547927 HOLDER FOR HEATING AND COOLING TOOL DEMIE, TIGIST S 54d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3794 3
3772 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18553444 FILM USED FOR OUTER BAG FOR CHEMICAL BODY WARMER FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18547927 HOLDER FOR HEATING AND COOLING TOOL DEMIE, TIGIST S 3794 §102 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Aug 25, 2023
17050547 INTERDENTAL CLEANING TOOL GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES 3772 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2021
17335840 ADHESIVE SHEET BROWN, KYLE MARTZ 3794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 01, 2021

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