Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. has a narrow prosecution footprint in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Currently, the entity has 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company is pursuing a very specific technical advancement.
ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS is the 1 distinct examiner involved, accounting for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With the entire pending workload concentrated in one examiner's hands, the prosecution process is highly streamlined. This centralized approach means that the entity's current patenting success depends entirely on the resolution of this single matter.
For practitioners, this profile indicates a lack of examiner diversity, which can lead to a more predictable but rigid prosecution experience. The singular nature of the docket requires a focused response that addresses the specific concerns of the assigned examiner. Success in this art unit will likely set the tone for any future filings by the entity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 1 | 30.3% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16992774 | CEPHALOPOD FEEDER, FEEDING METHOD, AND CEPHALOPOD | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16992774 | CEPHALOPOD FEEDER, FEEDING METHOD, AND CEPHALOPOD | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16992774 | CEPHALOPOD FEEDER, FEEDING METHOD, AND CEPHALOPOD | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 3643 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2020 |
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