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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Closures Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's active prosecution is highly focused, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal efforts at the USPTO are concentrated on a specific technical filing rather than a broad array of mechanical technologies. For practitioners, this singular focus allows for a more targeted response strategy.
The busiest examiner for the company is KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio, the entirety of the pending workload is subject to this individual's specific examination style. This structure in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector simplifies the management of the company's current patent applications. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the company's active prosecution is limited to a single technical domain at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 49.4% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277859 | PLASTIC SCREW CAP WITH GOOD WASHABILITY | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277859 | PLASTIC SCREW CAP WITH GOOD WASHABILITY | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18277859 | PLASTIC SCREW CAP WITH GOOD WASHABILITY | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Closures Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lauren Elizabeth Kmet has the most, with 1 of Nippon Closures Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
