Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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.

4
Hard (57%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other3 (43%)
§103 only3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
71% 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
POND, ROBERT M 1 71.2% +42.2%
NELSON, FREDA ANN 1 42.6% +7.1%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.4% +17.9%
MITROS, ANNA MAE 1 35.7% +47.9%
OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 1 16.2% +14.4%
MOORE, DUANE NEIL 1 27.7% +14.7%
KIM, SU C 1 77.6% -11.9%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18010938 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 112d overdue
18863294 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM POND, ROBERT M
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

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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
18863294 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM POND, ROBERT M
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3628 2
3688 1
1744 1
3689 1
3622 1
2899 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18863294 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM POND, ROBERT M 3688 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 05, 2024
18709774 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM NELSON, FREDA ANN 3628 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending May 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 Final Rejection 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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