Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maxell Izumi Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and the same number of distinct art units. MICHALSKI, SEAN M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
This distribution suggests that each of the 3 pending matters is being evaluated independently by different examiners in different technical groups. Because there are 3 distinct examiners involved, practitioners should tailor their strategies to each individual. The busiest examiner handles only 1 of the pending actions.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.4% | +12.8% |
| CAI, CHARLES J | 1 | 83.2% | +29.3% |
| KIM, PAUL D | 1 | 87.7% | +6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18726118 | ELECTRIC TOOL | CAI, CHARLES J | — |
| 18280796 | ELECTRIC TOOL | KIM, PAUL D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044629 | ELECTRIC CUTTER OF HAIR-LIKE BODY | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — |
| 18726118 | ELECTRIC TOOL | CAI, CHARLES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044629 | ELECTRIC CUTTER OF HAIR-LIKE BODY | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18726118 | ELECTRIC TOOL | CAI, CHARLES J | 2115 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18280796 | ELECTRIC TOOL | KIM, PAUL D | 3729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMaxell Izumi Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Sean M Michalski has the most, with 1 of Maxell Izumi Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
