Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha currently has 9 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 9 actions are being reviewed by 9 distinct examiners, indicating a high degree of individual attention for each application. The portfolio is spread across 8 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical filings are diverse enough to trigger review by many different specialized units within the office.
ROKIB MASUD is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 9 distinct examiners for 9 pending office actions, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. The use of 8 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy covers a wide array of mechanical and electronic systems. Managing the current pending office actions across such a variety of examiners and units requires a broad and coordinated prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (33%) |
| §103 only | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MASUD, ROKIB | 1 | 68.9% | +0.2% |
| PHAN, THO GIA | 1 | 91.4% | +4.1% |
| NELSON, FREDA ANN | 1 | 42.8% | +7.7% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
| MITROS, ANNA MAE | 1 | 36.1% | +48.3% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
| MOORE, DUANE NEIL | 1 | 27.5% | +14.3% |
| KIM, SU C | 1 | 77.8% | -11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838965 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER | PHAN, THO GIA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010938 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 112d overdue |
| 18709774 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 49d overdue |
| 18265667 | PRODUCT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND PRODUCT MANAGEMENT METHOD | MITROS, ANNA MAE | — |
| 17927614 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MOORE, DUANE NEIL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010938 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 112d overdue |
| 18685675 | CONTAINER MANUFACTURING METHOD | LEE, EDMUND H | 31d overdue |
| 18691653 | LABEL ATTACHING APPARATUS, LABEL ATTACHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 18d overdue |
| 18265667 | PRODUCT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND PRODUCT MANAGEMENT METHOD | MITROS, ANNA MAE | — |
| 17927614 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MOORE, DUANE NEIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 2 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881721 | ITEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ITEM MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ITEM DETECTION INSTRUMENT | MASUD, ROKIB | 3627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18838965 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER | PHAN, THO GIA | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18709774 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18691653 | LABEL ATTACHING APPARATUS, LABEL ATTACHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18685675 | CONTAINER MANUFACTURING METHOD | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18265667 | PRODUCT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND PRODUCT MANAGEMENT METHOD | MITROS, ANNA MAE | 3689 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18010938 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17927614 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MOORE, DUANE NEIL | 3628 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
| 17782744 | IC CHIP-MOUNTING DEVICE AND IC CHIP-MOUNTING METHOD | KIM, SU C | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
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