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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sodick Co., Ltd. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution allows the company to receive feedback from multiple sources within the patent office simultaneously. The company's prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the 2 pending office actions are being handled in different technical divisions.
The busiest examiner is TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions, this examiner's workload accounts for a specific part of the company's current activity. The presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests a diversified approach, as the 2 pending matters are not being reviewed by the same person. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must be flexible enough to accommodate the standards of 2 distinct art units and the preferences of 2 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.6% | +48.6% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446468 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINE AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING METHOD | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18349922 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | YE, XINWEN | 10d overdue |
| 18446468 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINE AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING METHOD | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18446468 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINE AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING METHOD | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18349922 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
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