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
Shimizu Corporation currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates that each of the company's current filings is being reviewed by a unique official in a different specialized division.
BANKS, KEONA LAUREN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the company's 2 active office actions. With 2 examiners and 2 art units for just 2 actions, the prosecution profile is highly decentralized for its size. This requires the company to manage 2 entirely separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and its own set of art unit-specific technical standards. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate 2 different sets of examiner preferences and procedural requirements across 2 distinct specialized divisions. This structure ensures that each filing receives a highly specialized review tailored to its specific technical category within the medical device and mechanical engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 58.5% | +4.9% |
| PARVINI, PEGAH | 1 | 70.2% | +12.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579444 | HEAT-SHIELDING THERMAL INSULATION COATING COMPOSITION | PARVINI, PEGAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858989 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND AIR CONDITIONING METHOD | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18579444 | HEAT-SHIELDING THERMAL INSULATION COATING COMPOSITION | PARVINI, PEGAH | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
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