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
Nitto Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the technology area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The prosecution of this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner. This focus indicates a technical application or a phase of filing activity. The concentration of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area allows the company to direct its resources toward the patent claims.
The busiest examiner, WILLSE, DAVID H, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there is 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio, this examiner is responsible for all active prosecution tasks. The work is conducted within 1 distinct art unit. This arrangement provides a view of the company's efforts within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The examiner oversees the entirety of the 1 pending office action for this company.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates the current scale of the company's interaction with the USPTO. Because the company works with 1 distinct art unit, the requirements are limited to that group. This structure supports a dialogue between the applicant and the examiner. Practitioners can focus on the requirements of the 1 examiner involved in the case. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit define the current prosecution environment.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15577122 | Body Support Device | WILLSE, DAVID H | 57d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15577122 | Body Support Device | WILLSE, DAVID H | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15577122 | Body Support Device | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Nov 27, 2017 |
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