Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lixil Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEUBAUER, THOMAS L 1 66.2% +19.8%
DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 1 63.4% +33.4%
MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 1 30.6% +20.4%
MELARAGNO, MICHAEL 1 67.1% +12.0%
LEE, JENNIFER V 1 25.5% +40.4%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17538768 ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE LEE, JENNIFER V 30d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18697912 LOCKING DEVICE, UNLOCKING KEY, AND DOOR NEUBAUER, THOMAS L 43d overdue
17538768 ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE LEE, JENNIFER V 30d overdue
18597122 COOLING DEVICE FOR INSTANTANEOUS COOLING DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 4d overdue
18282336 FOAM SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR BATHROOM MELARAGNO, MICHAEL 20d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3675 1
3763 1
3625 1
3754 1
3688 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18697912 LOCKING DEVICE, UNLOCKING KEY, AND DOOR NEUBAUER, THOMAS L 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2024
18597122 COOLING DEVICE FOR INSTANTANEOUS COOLING DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 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 §103 Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18282336 FOAM SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR BATHROOM MELARAGNO, MICHAEL 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 15, 2023
17538768 ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE LEE, JENNIFER V 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2021

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