Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Koei Tecmo Games Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These filings are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a unified technical focus for the company's current patent applications. Despite the single art unit, the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, providing a small degree of variety in the prosecution experience.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N, who is currently handling 2 pending office actions. This means that a majority of the company's active matters are under the review of a single individual. The remaining action is managed by the other examiner. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the legal team can likely apply consistent technical arguments across all filings, even when dealing with different examiners. However, the concentration of filings with one examiner makes the relationship with that specific official particularly important for the company's overall success in this technology 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 2 | 81.1% | +18.5% |
| WONG, JEFFREY KEITH | 1 | 66.2% | +26.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895390 | NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD AND GAME DEVICE | WONG, JEFFREY KEITH | — |
| 18613164 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — |
| 18693138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND OBJECT CREATION METHOD | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895390 | NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD AND GAME DEVICE | WONG, JEFFREY KEITH | — |
| 18613164 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — |
| 18693138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND OBJECT CREATION METHOD | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895390 | NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD AND GAME DEVICE | WONG, JEFFREY KEITH | — | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18613164 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18693138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND OBJECT CREATION METHOD | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 3715 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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