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
Panasonic Kitchen Appliances Technology (Jiaxing) Co. Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio that is currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution landscape for this entity is characterized by a singular focus, as shown by 1 pending office action. This specific action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a localized technical examination for the company's current intellectual property interests. The concentration of activity suggests a very specific or emerging patent strategy in this sector.
The examination of the portfolio is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, JENNISON, BRIAN W. As the busiest examiner, JENNISON, BRIAN W is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that the entirety of the company's current pending workload is under the review of one individual. For a practitioner, this indicates that the outcome of the current portfolio activity depends on the specific requirements and feedback of this single examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's immediate success is tied to a single point of contact at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18307366 | LOCKING MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FOOD PROCESSOR | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18307366 | LOCKING MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FOOD PROCESSOR | JENNISON, BRIAN W | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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