Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kubota Coporation has 1 pending office action in its current portfolio. This action is being handled by SCHUSTER, ALMA DONGFENG, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio shows 0 distinct art units, indicating a highly specific prosecution path for this single matter.
The company's immediate success is tied to this single pending action and the specific examination style of SCHUSTER, ALMA DONGFENG. Because there are 0 distinct art units and only a distinct examiner involved, the prosecution effort is highly focused on a single point of contact within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHUSTER, ALMA DONGFENG | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18959987 | Utility Vehicle | SCHUSTER, ALMA DONGFENG | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18959987 | Utility Vehicle | SCHUSTER, ALMA DONGFENG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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