Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kura Sushi Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific focus for the company's current patent activity. The concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is being evaluated by a specialized group at the USPTO.
BRADEN, SHAWN M is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This action constitutes the total pending workload for the portfolio. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current prosecution outcomes are dependent on this examiner's evaluation. This concentrated activity allows for a targeted approach to the USPTO, but it also means that the success of the current portfolio rests on a single relationship. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of BRADEN, SHAWN M to optimize the outcome for this 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADEN, SHAWN M | 1 | 66.7% | +32.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19097889 | CONNECTOR | BRADEN, SHAWN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097889 | CONNECTOR | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 3736 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
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