Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiyo Holdings Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While these 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, they fall within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a high level of administrative consistency, as the prosecution activity is localized to 1 distinct art unit despite the involvement of 3 distinct examiners. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit may allow for a more unified understanding of the company's technology by the patent office staff.
The busiest examiner, LEE, DORIS L, is currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the work is evenly spread. Practitioners should note that while they will interact with 3 distinct examiners, the shared context of 1 distinct art unit may lead to similar procedural expectations across the portfolio. This environment requires individual tendencies to be managed within 1 administrative framework for the 3 pending office actions. This structure allows Taiyo Holdings Co. Ltd. to focus its Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering strategy on the standards of 1 distinct art unit.
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 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DORIS L | 1 | 58.7% | +8.8% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
| CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 1 | 56.7% | +42.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284908 | INK-FILLED CARTRIDGE | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697033 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD | LEE, DORIS L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18587714 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18284908 | INK-FILLED CARTRIDGE | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
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