Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd. manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company is currently responding to 5 pending office actions. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates a relatively broad spread of scrutiny for a portfolio of this size. This variety in examiners requires a strategy that accounts for different individual perspectives on transportation and mechanical systems patentability.
The prosecution activity is spread across 4 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's innovations touch upon several different technical sub-specialties within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. With 5 pending office actions occurring in 4 distinct art units, the portfolio faces a diverse set of institutional standards and review processes, making it essential for practitioners to adapt their arguments to the specific requirements of each unit.
PARSLEY, DAVID J is the busiest examiner for this applicant, currently overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. While there are 4 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio, the 2 busiest examiner pending office actions assigned to PARSLEY, DAVID J represent a significant concentration of the company's current challenges. Success in these specific matters will be a major factor in the overall advancement of the company's intellectual property goals.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARSLEY, DAVID J | 2 | 54.1% | +28.7% |
| EKIERT, TERESA M | 1 | 79.4% | +3.0% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 1 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
| ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 1 | 78.9% | +21.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19475553 | WORK GRASPING APPARATUS AND WORK GRASPING METHOD | PARSLEY, DAVID J | — |
| 19132229 | FORMING PRESS DIE APPARATUS AND PRESS-FORMING METHOD | EKIERT, TERESA M | — |
| 18699197 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840534 | MEAT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEAT PROCESSING SYSTEM | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 27d |
| 19475553 | WORK GRASPING APPARATUS AND WORK GRASPING METHOD | PARSLEY, DAVID J | — |
| 18699197 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
| 18265718 | TOOL CHECKING DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE STORING TOOL CHECKING PROGRAM, AND TOOL CHECKING METHOD FOR ROBOT ARM | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 2 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19475553 | WORK GRASPING APPARATUS AND WORK GRASPING METHOD | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19132229 | FORMING PRESS DIE APPARATUS AND PRESS-FORMING METHOD | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18840534 | MEAT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEAT PROCESSING SYSTEM | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18699197 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 2682 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18265718 | TOOL CHECKING DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE STORING TOOL CHECKING PROGRAM, AND TOOL CHECKING METHOD FOR ROBOT ARM | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
David J Parsley has the most, with 2 of Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
