Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Komatsu Industries Corporation has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different person. This distribution across 6 distinct examiners requires a strategy that can accommodate six different approaches to patent examination. The applications are situated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the 6 pending office actions are clustered into two main technical groups.
SHECHTMAN, SEAN P is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently active. With 6 distinct examiners managing 6 pending office actions, the portfolio's progress is not heavily dependent on any single individual. However, the concentration of these matters within only 2 distinct art units may mean that the 6 distinct examiners are applying similar standards or referencing similar prior art. Practitioners should monitor the 2 distinct art units for any overarching trends that could impact the 6 pending office actions while managing the 6 distinct examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.2% | +22.3% |
| MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | 1 | 25.0% | +100.0% |
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +29.4% |
| KANG, EDWIN G | 1 | 64.3% | +66.9% |
| DODSON, JUSTIN C | 1 | 46.8% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ABNORMALITY IN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18685364 | THERMAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND THERMAL PROCESSING METHOD | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — |
| 18564708 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928675 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE, LASER PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION INHIBITION LIQUID | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 72d |
| 18857321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ABNORMALITY IN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18685364 | THERMAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND THERMAL PROCESSING METHOD | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — |
| 18564744 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| 18548392 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND NOZZLE UNIT FOR LASER MACHINING DEVICE | KANG, EDWIN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ABNORMALITY IN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18685364 | THERMAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND THERMAL PROCESSING METHOD | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18564708 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18564744 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18548392 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND NOZZLE UNIT FOR LASER MACHINING DEVICE | KANG, EDWIN G | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 17928675 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE, LASER PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION INHIBITION LIQUID | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 3761 | §102§103DPOther | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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