Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sugino Machine Limited has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are therefore fully distributed, while at least one art unit is associated with more than one current matter. Counsel should coordinate the mechanical and device terminology across the portfolio without treating the examinations as identical.
CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one of the six current actions. A centralized docket process can track recurring technical issues, while application-specific analysis remains necessary for the separate examiner records and the art-unit context shared by some matters.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1 | 67.8% | +14.4% |
| VITALE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.2% | +34.9% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
| WALCK, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.9% | +26.7% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.6% | +47.8% |
| YOO, JUN S | 1 | 78.7% | +20.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818112 | DETACHABLE TOOL AND PROCESSING TOOL TO WHICH DETACHABLE TOOL IS MOUNTED | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18805892 | DEBURRING APPARATUS AND DEBURRING METHOD | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| 18732735 | METHOD FOR REMOVING SUPPORT STRUCTURE | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
| 18601331 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE AND TOOL CHANGER | YOO, JUN S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818231 | CLEANING MACHINE | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | — |
| 18818112 | DETACHABLE TOOL AND PROCESSING TOOL TO WHICH DETACHABLE TOOL IS MOUNTED | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18805892 | DEBURRING APPARATUS AND DEBURRING METHOD | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| 18732735 | METHOD FOR REMOVING SUPPORT STRUCTURE | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
| 18601110 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| 18601331 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE AND TOOL CHANGER | YOO, JUN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 2 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18818231 | CLEANING MACHINE | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18818112 | DETACHABLE TOOL AND PROCESSING TOOL TO WHICH DETACHABLE TOOL IS MOUNTED | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18805892 | DEBURRING APPARATUS AND DEBURRING METHOD | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18732735 | METHOD FOR REMOVING SUPPORT STRUCTURE | WALCK, BRIAN D | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18601110 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18601331 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE AND TOOL CHANGER | YOO, JUN S | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSugino Machine Limited has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Natasha N. Campbell has the most, with 1 of Sugino Machine Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
