Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Sun Medical Co. Ltd.

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Sun Medical Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. It involves 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, reflecting a highly focused point of review. This arrangement suggests that the company's current intellectual property matter falls within a specific technical area handled by a single examination team.

WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This is the only current pending action for the company, meaning that the success of the entire pending portfolio depends on this one interaction. For the practitioner, this means that prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific preferences of this examiner. The existence of only a single pending office action indicates a very focused and lean prosecution pipeline for the company at this time.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

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

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D 1 80.0% -4.5%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18280708 POLYMERIZATION INITIATOR-CONTAINING COMPOSITION AND DENTAL POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18280708 POLYMERIZATION INITIATOR-CONTAINING COMPOSITION AND DENTAL POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D 1766 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 07, 2023

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