Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyocera Avx Components (San Diego) Inc. manages 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is handling more than one case. All 4 pending actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the examiners are different, the technical subject matter of the 4 pending office actions is closely related.
The busiest examiner is MAI, LAM T, with 1 pending office action. Despite having 4 distinct examiners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows the company to interact with multiple individuals within a single specialized area of the patent office. This strategy provides 4 different perspectives on the 4 pending office actions while remaining within the same technical field. With 4 distinct examiners and 4 pending office actions, the company's workload is evenly spread, ensuring that no single examiner's decision dominates the 1 distinct art unit. This approach is useful for a company seeking to establish a strong presence in a specific niche of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, LAM T | 1 | 96.1% | +0.9% |
| BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 1 | 81.6% | +13.6% |
| CHANG, YU-WEN | 1 | 82.0% | +11.0% |
| NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 1 | 71.6% | +29.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19195075 | Wideband Phased Array Antenna For Millimeter Wave Communications | MAI, LAM T | — |
| 19170890 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517887 | Antenna Assembly for Glucose Monitoring Device | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 13d |
| 19170890 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
| 18896179 | Adaptive Antenna for Channel Selection Management in Communications Systems | CHANG, YU-WEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19195075 | Wideband Phased Array Antenna For Millimeter Wave Communications | MAI, LAM T | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19170890 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 18896179 | Adaptive Antenna for Channel Selection Management in Communications Systems | CHANG, YU-WEN | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18517887 | Antenna Assembly for Glucose Monitoring Device | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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