Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (43%)
2
Easy (29%)
2
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
§112 only2 (29%)
No statute on record2 (29%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 1 62.3% +26.5%
AHMED, MOBEEN 1 61.4% +7.0%
PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A 1 74.1% +11.2%
GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1 35.6% +46.3%
VONCH, JEFFREY A 1 52.2% +43.9%
INSERRA, MADISON RENEE 1 68.4% +36.6%
VERA, ELISA H 1 71.6% +26.7%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18037375 VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD, AND VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROGRAM INSERRA, MADISON RENEE 87d overdue
18294882 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING BASE PAPER ROLL AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A 29d overdue
18012868 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECT IN CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET, DEVICE FOR ELIMINATING DEFECT IN CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET VERA, ELISA H 23d overdue
18238158 PANEL STRUCTURE VONCH, JEFFREY A 16d overdue
18851066 PAPER ROLL SUPPORT DEVICE, PAPER ROLL CHUCK, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CARDBOARD SHEET SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 5d overdue
18286869 PANEL MANUFACTURING DEVICE, PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND PANEL GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 63d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1746 2
3731 1
1754 1
1781 1
3662 1
1748 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18851066 PAPER ROLL SUPPORT DEVICE, PAPER ROLL CHUCK, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CARDBOARD SHEET SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 1746 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18773579 PACKAGE MATERIAL MANUFACTURING MACHINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AHMED, MOBEEN 3731 §112 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18294882 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING BASE PAPER ROLL AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A 1746 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2024
18286869 PANEL MANUFACTURING DEVICE, PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND PANEL GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Oct 13, 2023
18238158 PANEL STRUCTURE VONCH, JEFFREY A 1781 Other Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18037375 VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD, AND VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROGRAM INSERRA, MADISON RENEE 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18012868 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECT IN CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET, DEVICE FOR ELIMINATING DEFECT IN CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD SHEET VERA, ELISA H 1748 Other Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022

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