Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
MIKUNI Corporation has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each of the 5 pending matters is under the review of a different official. This distribution requires the company to navigate 5 separate examiner perspectives, which prevents any single reviewer from having a dominant influence over the current portfolio.
The 5 pending actions are concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This is a high level of concentration relative to the 5 examiners, as it means multiple examiners are operating within the same administrative groups. SPLIT, JAMES GERALD is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which shows that the 5 pending actions are evenly distributed across the 5 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this structure means that while 5 different examiners are involved, they likely share similar internal guidelines and supervisory oversight within the 2 art units. This allows the company to focus its administrative efforts while managing 5 separate technical reviews.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 1 | 61.9% | +34.8% |
| HINZE, LEO T | 1 | 52.7% | +10.4% |
| SCHARPF, SUSAN E | 1 | 80.6% | +15.3% |
| JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | 1 | 79.3% | +8.7% |
| TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 1 | 71.9% | +9.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18785485 | ENGINE THROTTLE DEVICE | SCHARPF, SUSAN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797549 | SENSOR UNIT AND INTAKE SYSTEM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | — |
| 18664527 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT APPARATUS AND CIRCUIT-INTEGRATED MOTOR | JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | — |
| 18634976 | ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797549 | SENSOR UNIT AND INTAKE SYSTEM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | — |
| 18798802 | SENSOR UNIT | HINZE, LEO T | — |
| 18785485 | ENGINE THROTTLE DEVICE | SCHARPF, SUSAN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18797549 | SENSOR UNIT AND INTAKE SYSTEM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18798802 | SENSOR UNIT | HINZE, LEO T | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18785485 | ENGINE THROTTLE DEVICE | SCHARPF, SUSAN E | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18664527 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT APPARATUS AND CIRCUIT-INTEGRATED MOTOR | JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18634976 | ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 2837 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2024 |
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