Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sugino Machine Limited currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across multiple distinct examiners. This distribution means that each examiner is handling a single matter for the company.
The portfolio's current activity is spread across multiple distinct art units. This indicates that each of the pending office actions is located in a different art unit. NATASHA N. CAMPBELL is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The presence of 3 distinct art units for the pending office actions suggests that the workload is located in multiple administrative areas. Practitioners must tailor their approach to the specific requirements of the different examiners and art units. The 1 pending office action under NATASHA N. CAMPBELL represents a portion of the total 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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% | +34.7% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
| EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1 | 92.3% | +0.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18310910 | SLIT CHAMBER AND ATOMIZING APPARATUS | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818112 | DETACHABLE TOOL AND PROCESSING TOOL TO WHICH DETACHABLE TOOL IS MOUNTED | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
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 3 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 | — |
| 18601110 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1776 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18601110 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18310910 | SLIT CHAMBER AND ATOMIZING APPARATUS | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
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