Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shibuya Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, ensuring that each active case is being reviewed by a different official. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover distinct technical sub-areas within the broader chemistry sector.
SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each managing one of the 2 pending actions, the company faces two different examiner perspectives in its current prosecution. No single examiner has a majority of the work, which prevents any one official from having a disproportionate impact on the company's overall patent strategy.
For practitioners, managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a dual-track approach. Each action must be handled according to the specific standards of its respective examiner and art unit. Because SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE only handles one of the 2 pending actions, practitioners cannot rely on a single point of contact to resolve all of the company's current prosecution issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1 | 37.1% | +49.7% |
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 1 | 33.3% | +12.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455006 | DIALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING CONNECTION OF REPLENISHER PASSAGE | LE, QUYNH DAO | 40d |
| 18421895 | CONTAINER-STERILIZER | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18421895 | CONTAINER-STERILIZER | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18455006 | DIALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING CONNECTION OF REPLENISHER PASSAGE | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShibuya Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kayla Rose Sarantakos has the most, with 1 of Shibuya Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
