Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taisei Kako Co. Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 5 distinct examiners, which means that every pending action is under the supervision of a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the company must manage five separate sets of expectations and communication styles simultaneously.
The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the examiners are all different, some of them are working within the same art units, which may provide some level of consistency in the legal standards applied to the applications. KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the 5 pending office actions currently active.
The strategy for Taisei Kako Co. Ltd. involves navigating 5 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. Since KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH only manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, the applicant's success is not overly dependent on any single examiner. Instead, the company must focus on the specific requirements of all 5 distinct examiners to resolve the 5 pending office actions currently on the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 46.2% | +46.6% |
| ABU-DAYEH, TAGWA MOHAMMAD | 1 | — | — |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 1 | 66.6% | +25.0% |
| DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 1 | 50.0% | +64.4% |
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343024 | LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DOSING DEVICE | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 88d overdue |
| 19131203 | MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING CONTAINER | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18713330 | Squeeze Container | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| 18696918 | SEALING BODY FOR SYRINGE | ABU-DAYEH, TAGWA MOHAMMAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343024 | LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DOSING DEVICE | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 88d overdue |
| 19131203 | MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING CONTAINER | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18713330 | Squeeze Container | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| 17608722 | HOLDER FOR ADMINISTERING RADIATION OR ANTICANCER CHEMOTHERAPY SENSITIZER | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | — |
| 17439392 | SYRINGE AUXILIARY TOOL | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19131203 | MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING CONTAINER | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18713330 | Squeeze Container | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18696918 | SEALING BODY FOR SYRINGE | ABU-DAYEH, TAGWA MOHAMMAD | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18343024 | LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DOSING DEVICE | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 17608722 | HOLDER FOR ADMINISTERING RADIATION OR ANTICANCER CHEMOTHERAPY SENSITIZER | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2021 |
| 17439392 | SYRINGE AUXILIARY TOOL | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTaisei Kako Co. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Gregory W Adams has the most, with 1 of Taisei Kako Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
