Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sodick Co. Ltd.

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUON, VIRAK 1 82.8% +19.8%
SMITH JR., JIMMY R 1 64.9% +42.9%
YE, XINWEN 1 43.4% +46.1%
FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1 69.7% +13.3%
GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1 35.6% +46.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18914276 SECONDARY MOLDING DEVICE FOR MEAT SUBSTITUTES NGUON, VIRAK 33d

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
18349922 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT YE, XINWEN 10d overdue
18349928 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 13d
18183179 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AN OBJECT GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 22d
18491795 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT SMITH JR., JIMMY R 27d
18914276 SECONDARY MOLDING DEVICE FOR MEAT SUBSTITUTES NGUON, VIRAK 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1741 2
1754 2
1745 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18914276 SECONDARY MOLDING DEVICE FOR MEAT SUBSTITUTES NGUON, VIRAK 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18491795 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT SMITH JR., JIMMY R 1745 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 22, 2023
18349922 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT YE, XINWEN 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18349928 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18183179 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AN OBJECT GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 14, 2023

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