Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kyoto Tool Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHAKERI, HADI. Furthermore, the entire workload is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very high level of technical and personnel concentration for the company's current patent applications. This arrangement suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is focused on a very specific set of mechanical or medical innovations.
As the busiest examiner, SHAKERI, HADI is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This means that this single individual manages the company's 2 pending office actions. For a practitioner, this concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner suggests that the outcome of the current portfolio is heavily dependent on the specific interpretations of the assigned examiner. The workload being handled by the same person allows for a consistent dialogue but also creates a single point of focus for the company's current prosecution strategy. Success in the pending matters relies entirely on the interaction with SHAKERI, HADI.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAKERI, HADI | 2 | 62.1% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869371 | TOOL | SHAKERI, HADI | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18052686 | WRENCH | SHAKERI, HADI | 40d |
| 18869371 | TOOL | SHAKERI, HADI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869371 | TOOL | SHAKERI, HADI | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18052686 | WRENCH | SHAKERI, HADI | 3723 | §102 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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