Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently under review. With 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending actions, each case is being reviewed by a different official.
The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the 5 pending matters fall into several technical categories within medical devices and mechanical engineering. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single examiner is managing more than one action. This arrangement provides a variety of perspectives on the company's technology across 5 distinct examiners. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the filings cover multiple technical sections of the patent office. This structure requires the company to manage interactions with 5 different examiners across 3 separate art units. BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S is one of the 5 distinct examiners handling the pending office actions.
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 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| CARY, KELSEY E | 1 | 75.0% | +24.9% |
| ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 1 | 66.6% | +18.1% |
| AZAM, MUHAMMED | 1 | 86.7% | +11.1% |
| WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 1 | 84.7% | +14.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851766 | Sensor Apparatus | AZAM, MUHAMMED | — |
| 18889504 | Sensor Apparatus | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19165666 | SPOOL VALVE | CARY, KELSEY E | — |
| 18899330 | Boiling-Cooler Production Method and Boiling Cooler | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19475758 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HYDRAULIC SYSTEM | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 19165666 | SPOOL VALVE | CARY, KELSEY E | — |
| 18899330 | Boiling-Cooler Production Method and Boiling Cooler | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
| 18851766 | Sensor Apparatus | AZAM, MUHAMMED | — |
| 18889504 | Sensor Apparatus | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19475758 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HYDRAULIC SYSTEM | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19165666 | SPOOL VALVE | CARY, KELSEY E | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 18899330 | Boiling-Cooler Production Method and Boiling Cooler | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18851766 | Sensor Apparatus | AZAM, MUHAMMED | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18889504 | Sensor Apparatus | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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