Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
LIXIL Corporation has 5 pending office actions focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's mechanical designs are categorized into several distinct technical classifications. The prosecution is handled by 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is under the review of a different individual. This distribution across 5 examiners for 5 actions ensures that each file is being evaluated independently by a unique member of the patent office staff.
CUMAR, NATHAN is the busiest examiner for this set of filings, with 1 pending action assigned. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 actions, no single examiner holds a plurality of the workload. The distribution across 4 distinct art units for 5 actions suggests that the mechanical engineering aspects of the portfolio are highly specialized. For the practitioner, this requires managing 5 different examiner relationships while coordinating strategy across the 4 distinct art units involved in the 5 pending office actions. The lack of examiner concentration means that each filing must be advanced on its own merits without the benefit of a centralized examiner relationship.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 1 | 55.4% | +28.9% |
| DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 1 | 65.3% | +30.9% |
| MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 1 | 30.7% | +20.5% |
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.5% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502690 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR MANAGING WORK ON LAVATORY EQUIPMENT | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 128d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502690 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR MANAGING WORK ON LAVATORY EQUIPMENT | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 128d overdue |
| 18597122 | COOLING DEVICE FOR INSTANTANEOUS COOLING | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 4d overdue |
| 18282336 | FOAM SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR BATHROOM | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 20d |
| 19112727 | TOILET DEVICE | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112727 | TOILET DEVICE | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18597122 | COOLING DEVICE FOR INSTANTANEOUS COOLING | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18502690 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR MANAGING WORK ON LAVATORY EQUIPMENT | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 3625 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 128d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18282336 | FOAM SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR BATHROOM | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLIXIL Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Janie Meredith Loeppke has the most, with 1 of LIXIL Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
