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
R Kikai Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within a single art unit. This concentration suggests a very specific technological focus for the company's current patent activity. The involvement of only one art unit simplifies the administrative tracking for this portion of the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the company is KENNY, DANIEL J, who is managing the active matter. Because there is only one distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate prosecution timeline is subject to the specific review habits of this individual. Practitioners should prepare for the 1 pending office action by reviewing the examiner's past decisions in the mechanical systems field. This limited activity reflects a highly targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNY, DANIEL J | 1 | 61.8% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868865 | CUMULATIVE DISPLACEMENT GAUGE AND VIBRATION CONTROL DAMPER | KENNY, DANIEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868865 | CUMULATIVE DISPLACEMENT GAUGE AND VIBRATION CONTROL DAMPER | KENNY, DANIEL J | 3633 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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