Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, COTHRAN, BERNARD E, within 1 distinct art unit. COTHRAN, BERNARD E is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action.
With 1 pending office action total, the company's active docket is centralized. The use of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that all current prosecution is subject to a single set of departmental standards. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the company's active patent prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 1 | 45.2% | +15.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928739 | VERIFICATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VERIFICATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928739 | VERIFICATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VERIFICATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17928739 | VERIFICATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VERIFICATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 2188 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bernard E Cothran has the most, with 1 of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.