Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Takeuchi Mfg Co. Ltd. maintains a portfolio with 5 pending office actions focused within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, showing that no single examiner is handling multiple pending matters for the company. This distribution suggests a broad engagement with the patent office rather than a concentrated interaction with a specific individual.
The company's prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates some level of technical specialization within the USPTO for these filings. LE, HUAN G is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner only handles a single pending matter, the workload is spread across the examining corps.
Practitioners should note that the ratio of pending office actions to examiners implies that each matter is being evaluated by a different person. The presence of 2 distinct art units confirms that the company's innovations in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area are being reviewed under at least 2 different sets of departmental standards. This diversity in reviewers requires a flexible strategy that accounts for multiple examiner perspectives simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, HUAN G | 1 | 88.5% | +13.5% |
| MEYER, JACOB B | 1 | 74.9% | +16.9% |
| GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH | 1 | 93.1% | -2.9% |
| DANG, TINH | 1 | 85.3% | +7.9% |
| TSUI, ALFRED H | 1 | 32.7% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953229 | Working Vehicle | GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH | 26d |
| 18820470 | Working Vehicle Operation Control System | DANG, TINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001752 | Working Vehicle | LE, HUAN G | — |
| 18987100 | Working Vehicle | MEYER, JACOB B | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18376036 | WORKING VEHICLE | TSUI, ALFRED H | 50d overdue |
| 19001752 | Working Vehicle | LE, HUAN G | — |
| 18987100 | Working Vehicle | MEYER, JACOB B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3614 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001752 | Working Vehicle | LE, HUAN G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18987100 | Working Vehicle | MEYER, JACOB B | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18953229 | Working Vehicle | GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18820470 | Working Vehicle Operation Control System | DANG, TINH | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18376036 | WORKING VEHICLE | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
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