Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
MEIDENSHA Corporation currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, which distributes the prosecution workload. MATES, ROBERT E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The 2 pending office actions are also split between 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's filings in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics are diverse enough to fall under different examination groups. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the company is engaging with multiple technical experts at the patent office. MATES, ROBERT E represents 1 of these 2 points of contact, contributing to the overall prosecution effort across the 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATES, ROBERT E | 1 | 57.0% | +35.0% |
| REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1 | 41.4% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288756 | ROTARY MACHINE WITH FORCED AND NATURAL AIR COMMUNICATION HOLES | MATES, ROBERT E | 7d |
| 17878496 | ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHOD AND ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION DEVICE | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288756 | ROTARY MACHINE WITH FORCED AND NATURAL AIR COMMUNICATION HOLES | MATES, ROBERT E | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 17878496 | ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHOD AND ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION DEVICE | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
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