Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kuraray Trading Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The company's active prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical focus for its current patent application. This concentration suggests that the company's mechanical systems innovations are being evaluated by 1 distinct art unit at the patent office.
ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action constitutes the total of 1 pending office action for Kuraray Trading Co. Ltd. The concentration of the pending workload under this examiner and 1 distinct art unit allows for a very specific prosecution approach. Practitioners can focus their efforts on understanding the examination style of ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P to effectively move this transportation-related application forward and address the pending requirements of 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 81.9% | +0.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835520 | AMBULATORY PEST TRAPPING DEVICE | ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835520 | AMBULATORY PEST TRAPPING DEVICE | ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P | 3644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKuraray Trading Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher P Ellis has the most, with 1 of Kuraray Trading Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
