Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
RISO KAGAKU Corporation is managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Each examiner is located in a different art unit, totaling 2 distinct art units.
Johnna Ronee Loftis is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is one of the 2 total pending actions for the company. The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions suggests that each filing falls under a different technical classification within the mechanical systems field. Practitioners must adapt to the specific standards of 2 distinct art units and the individual review styles of 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed in a unique technical and examiner environment. The 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units require a highly individualized approach for each pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | 1 | 43.1% | +4.5% |
| GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 1 | 85.9% | +8.4% |
| ZONG, HELEN | 1 | 79.2% | +8.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953747 | SHEET FEEDING METHOD, SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, SHEET FEEDING PROGRAM, AND LEARNING MODEL | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080029 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT, AND APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19080029 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT, AND APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18953747 | SHEET FEEDING METHOD, SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, SHEET FEEDING PROGRAM, AND LEARNING MODEL | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18615746 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
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