Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanoh Industrial Co. Ltd. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, showing a direct correlation between the number of pending matters and individual reviewers. This distribution suggests that the company's current legal challenges are spread across multiple perspectives rather than being concentrated under a specific individual.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the subject matter involves diverse technical classifications within the broader mechanical systems category. RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since this examiner holds only a portion of the total pending actions, the workload is evenly divided across the individuals involved. This lack of concentration means that prosecution success is not tied to a specific examiner's tendencies, but rather to the varied standards of 2 different art units.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
| DUNWOODY, AARON M | 1 | 75.2% | +11.4% |
| ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 1 | 66.6% | +18.1% |
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.5% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19173142 | PIPE BRANCH STRUCTURE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| 18855826 | COOLER | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
| 18687626 | HEAT-UTILIZING POWER GENERATION MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19173142 | PIPE BRANCH STRUCTURE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| 18881094 | PIPE JOINT | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
| 18855826 | COOLER | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
| 18687626 | HEAT-UTILIZING POWER GENERATION MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19173142 | PIPE BRANCH STRUCTURE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 18881094 | PIPE JOINT | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18855826 | COOLER | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18687626 | HEAT-UTILIZING POWER GENERATION MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
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