Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Natsume Optical Corp. is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The prosecution profile reflects a concentrated effort on a specific set of technical claims. This narrow focus suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific innovation within the medical or mechanical fields. The limited number of active matters allows for a highly specialized response strategy that addresses the specific concerns of the patent office.
FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE is the busiest examiner for this entity, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending office actions. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific procedural preferences of this examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The use of a distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is tightly grouped. By focusing on the distinct examiner involved, the applicant can ensure a consistent and coherent argument throughout the prosecution process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 1 | 69.9% | +67.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17264511 | LOCAL POLISHING METHOD, LOCAL POLISHING DEVICE, AND CORRECTIVE POLISHING APPARATUS USING THE LOCAL POLISHING DEVICE | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17264511 | LOCAL POLISHING METHOD, LOCAL POLISHING DEVICE, AND CORRECTIVE POLISHING APPARATUS USING THE LOCAL POLISHING DEVICE | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17264511 | LOCAL POLISHING METHOD, LOCAL POLISHING DEVICE, AND CORRECTIVE POLISHING APPARATUS USING THE LOCAL POLISHING DEVICE | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 29, 2021 |
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