Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution means that every pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit.
Vishal J Pancholi is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape where each chemical or material innovation is being evaluated in a unique technical context. For practitioners, the 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units for 5 pending office actions mean that there is no concentration of personnel or technical groups. This 1 to 1 ratio across all 5 actions requires a tailored strategy for every single filing in the portfolio to address the specific requirements of each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 1 | 72.8% | +25.3% |
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.0% | +25.4% |
| LEWIS, TISHA D | 1 | 87.6% | +9.6% |
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994784 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE | LEWIS, TISHA D | 79d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868510 | STORAGE BATTERY MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND STORAGE BATTERY MANAGEMENT METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012139 | LIQUID MATERIAL DISCHARGE DEVICE AND LIQUID MATERIAL APPLICATION DEVICE | PENCE, JETHRO M | 10d overdue |
| 19137499 | DISCHARGE STATE INSPECTION METHOD, DISCHARGE STATE INSPECTION DEVICE, AND DROPLET INSPECTION SYSTEM | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | — |
| 18868510 | STORAGE BATTERY MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND STORAGE BATTERY MANAGEMENT METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19137499 | DISCHARGE STATE INSPECTION METHOD, DISCHARGE STATE INSPECTION DEVICE, AND DROPLET INSPECTION SYSTEM | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 18012139 | LIQUID MATERIAL DISCHARGE DEVICE AND LIQUID MATERIAL APPLICATION DEVICE | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 18994784 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE | LEWIS, TISHA D | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18868510 | STORAGE BATTERY MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND STORAGE BATTERY MANAGEMENT METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
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