Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Okamoto Corporation has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners within 1 art unit, indicating that the portfolio is concentrated in a single examination grouping while still receiving examiner-level handling from more than one reviewer.
HUANG, GRACE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because that examiner accounts for only part of the pending work, prosecution attention is not centered on one examiner alone. Counsel should track both examiner assignments within the art unit when coordinating responses and identifying recurring examination issues.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.6% | +55.0% |
| TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | 1 | 62.3% | +54.6% |
| HOEY, ALISSA L | 1 | 44.4% | +32.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119530 | KNITTED FABRIC AND ATTACHMENT USING SAID KNITTED FABRIC | HUANG, GRACE | — |
| 19103781 | WEARABLE ITEM | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | — |
| 18863612 | FOOTWEAR ITEM | HOEY, ALISSA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119530 | KNITTED FABRIC AND ATTACHMENT USING SAID KNITTED FABRIC | HUANG, GRACE | — |
| 19103781 | WEARABLE ITEM | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | — |
| 18863612 | FOOTWEAR ITEM | HOEY, ALISSA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119530 | KNITTED FABRIC AND ATTACHMENT USING SAID KNITTED FABRIC | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19103781 | WEARABLE ITEM | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18863612 | FOOTWEAR ITEM | HOEY, ALISSA L | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOkamoto Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Grace Huang has the most, with 1 of Okamoto Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
