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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kurimoto Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution strategy for these specific mechanical and system-based assets. The active matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing a distribution of the workload despite the technical concentration.
PATEL, JITESH is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This matter represents the workload for the busiest examiner. Because the distinct examiners are operating within a single art unit, the prosecution environment remains localized. Practitioners should note that the pending office actions represent the entirety of the current active docket for Kurimoto Ltd. in this technology space. The presence of multiple examiners across only a single art unit means no individual holds all the cases, though PATEL, JITESH maintains the highest individual count.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, JITESH | 1 | 78.8% | +12.3% |
| ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278730 | MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL FLUID DEVICE | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850852 | Control Device, Control Method, Haptic Feedback System, and Program for Haptic Feedback Control | PATEL, JITESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850852 | Control Device, Control Method, Haptic Feedback System, and Program for Haptic Feedback Control | PATEL, JITESH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18278730 | MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL FLUID DEVICE | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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