Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sunrise Technologies Co. Ltd. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 4 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This broad distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple diverse technical paths within the medical device field simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is YIP, KENT. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. Each examiner, including YIP, KENT, handles exactly 1 pending action across 4 separate art units. This lack of concentration means that the company must manage interactions with 4 distinct examiners. Such a decentralized profile requires a broader prosecution strategy, as the outcomes are determined by different individuals across 4 distinct art units. This structure indicates that Sunrise Technologies Co. Ltd.'s current patent activity is not confined to a single examiner's discretion, reflecting a diverse portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YIP, KENT | 1 | 71.2% | +18.1% |
| KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 1 | 43.1% | +53.6% |
| GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 1 | 37.9% | +51.2% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.3% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264983 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 87d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264983 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 87d overdue |
| 18005218 | POSITIONING METHOD, POSITIONING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 30d |
| 18264990 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 33d |
| 18276993 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | YIP, KENT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2681 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18276993 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | YIP, KENT | 2681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18264990 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 3798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18264983 | METHOD OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, DEVICE OF MEASURING TISSUE ELEMENT, AND WEARABLE APPARATUS | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18005218 | POSITIONING METHOD, POSITIONING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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