Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Osaka Research Institute Of Industrial Science And Technology has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner managing a case. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a range of technical applications within the field. This distribution suggests that the institute's applications are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups.
The busiest examiner, ROBERTS, ANNA L, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners for the pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed. The use of 2 distinct art units for the 3 pending office actions suggests a focused yet diverse examination path. Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action assigned to ROBERTS, ANNA L is one of several currently active matters. This arrangement requires coordinating strategies across the distinct art units involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 56.7% | +38.5% |
| NEWMAN, DREW C | 1 | 42.4% | +28.9% |
| CONLEY, OI K | 1 | 69.9% | +7.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17626939 | COMPOUND AND BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | CONLEY, OI K | 9d |
| 18288221 | COMPOUND AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | NEWMAN, DREW C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875869 | Biometric Information Measurement Device | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
| 18288221 | COMPOUND AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | NEWMAN, DREW C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875869 | Biometric Information Measurement Device | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18288221 | COMPOUND AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | NEWMAN, DREW C | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 17626939 | COMPOUND AND BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | CONLEY, OI K | 1752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
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