Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (14%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only6 (86%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ELLIS, SUEZU Y 1 76.4% +22.0%
NELSON, FREDA ANN 1 42.6% +5.6%
KOCH, GEORGE R 1 72.7% +17.7%
MAI, THIEN T 1 58.9% +20.8%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.2% +17.6%
SHUI, MING 1 58.2% +50.2%
OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 1 16.3% +14.3%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18010938 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 112d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18010938 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 112d overdue
18265920 ANALYSIS SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGING APPARATUS AND POSITIONING DEVICE SHUI, MING 79d overdue
19109078 RFID LABEL AND METHOD FOR USING RFID LABEL ELLIS, SUEZU Y 51d overdue
18685675 CONTAINER MANUFACTURING METHOD LEE, EDMUND H 31d overdue
18691653 LABEL ATTACHING APPARATUS, LABEL ATTACHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM KOCH, GEORGE R 18d overdue
18690827 RFID CONTAINER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR RFID CONTAINER MAI, THIEN T 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 2
3628 1
1745 1
1744 1
2663 1
3622 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19109078 RFID LABEL AND METHOD FOR USING RFID LABEL ELLIS, SUEZU Y 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2025
18709774 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM NELSON, FREDA ANN 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending May 13, 2024
18691653 LABEL ATTACHING APPARATUS, LABEL ATTACHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM KOCH, GEORGE R 1745 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18690827 RFID CONTAINER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR RFID CONTAINER MAI, THIEN T 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18685675 CONTAINER MANUFACTURING METHOD LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18265920 ANALYSIS SYSTEM INCLUDING IMAGING APPARATUS AND POSITIONING DEVICE SHUI, MING 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jun 07, 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

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