Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific area of technical interest. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, indicating a very limited scope of active engagement with the patent office at this time. Such a concentrated focus can simplify the management of intellectual property but also means the portfolio's immediate growth is tied to a single filing.
KAYLA ROSE SARANTAKOS is the busiest examiner assigned to the company, with 1 pending office action under review. This 1 action constitutes the entirety of the pending workload for Shibuya Corporation, as there are no other active matters across different art units. For practitioners, this indicates that the current prosecution strategy is highly targeted, with 1 distinct examiner holding the key to the company's pending patent outcomes in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 | 35.6% | +52.0% |
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 1 | 34.8% | +10.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455006 | DIALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING CONNECTION OF REPLENISHER PASSAGE | LE, QUYNH DAO | 40d |
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§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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