Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
KOGANEI Corporation maintains a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce and Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the company is navigating two separate review processes simultaneously.
The prosecution for these filings is located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the 2 pending office actions involve closely related technologies within the mechanical systems field. The busiest examiner, MILLER, DALE R, is currently managing 1 pending office action. This shows that the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct art unit provides an opportunity for a unified technical approach across the portfolio. However, because there are 2 distinct examiners, the specific requirements for each case may vary. Success depends on addressing the individual concerns of MILLER, DALE R and the other assigned examiner within the same art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, DALE R | 1 | 62.4% | +17.5% |
| LEE, GILBERT Y | 1 | 78.7% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18355979 | Non-Contact Conveyance Device | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693800 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYCLIC OLIGOSACCHARIDE, CYCLIC OLIGOSACCHARIDE AND INCLUSION AGENT | MILLER, DALE R | — |
| 18355979 | Non-Contact Conveyance Device | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693800 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYCLIC OLIGOSACCHARIDE, CYCLIC OLIGOSACCHARIDE AND INCLUSION AGENT | MILLER, DALE R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18355979 | Non-Contact Conveyance Device | LEE, GILBERT Y | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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