Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

TANITA Corporation

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

5
Hard (62%)
3
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other4 (50%)
§103 only1 (12%)
§102 only2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, LINH T 1 70.8% +26.0%
MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 1 69.5% +24.9%
HULS, NATALIE F 1 76.8% +21.8%
MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 1 9.7% +26.1%
JANG, CHRISTIAN Y 1 68.5% +21.0%
YOON, CHANEL J 1 53.4% +39.7%
CHOI, DAVID 1 19.1% +27.8%
MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN 1 12.0% +24.8%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17399545 BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM, BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN 22d
18190405 GROUP REGISTRATION DEVICE, GROUP REGISTRATION METHOD, AND GROUP REGISTRATION PROGRAM MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA
18161153 HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION SYSTEM, HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION SERVER JANG, CHRISTIAN Y
17584511 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION METHOD, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM YOON, CHANEL J
17527277 BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM CHOI, DAVID

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18478385 BLOOD COMPONENT MONITORING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND BLOOD COMPONENT MONITORING SYSTEM MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 28d overdue
18632393 BODY COMPOSITION METER, SERVICE SYSTEM, MEASUREMENT VALUE TRANSMISSION METHOD, MEASUREMENT VALUE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, LINH T 10d overdue
17399545 BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM, BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN 22d
18352474 SCALE, STRAIN GENERATING BODY, AND LOAD CELL HULS, NATALIE F
18190405 GROUP REGISTRATION DEVICE, GROUP REGISTRATION METHOD, AND GROUP REGISTRATION PROGRAM MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA
18161153 HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION SYSTEM, HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION SERVER JANG, CHRISTIAN Y
17584511 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION METHOD, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM YOON, CHANEL J
17527277 BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM CHOI, DAVID

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 2
2459 1
2855 1
3681 1
3700 1
3684 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18632393 BODY COMPOSITION METER, SERVICE SYSTEM, MEASUREMENT VALUE TRANSMISSION METHOD, MEASUREMENT VALUE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, LINH T 2459 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2024
18478385 BLOOD COMPONENT MONITORING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND BLOOD COMPONENT MONITORING SYSTEM MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 3791 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18352474 SCALE, STRAIN GENERATING BODY, AND LOAD CELL HULS, NATALIE F 2855 §102 Final Rejection Pending Jul 14, 2023
18190405 GROUP REGISTRATION DEVICE, GROUP REGISTRATION METHOD, AND GROUP REGISTRATION PROGRAM MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 3681 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2023
18161153 HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION SYSTEM, HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND HEALTH LEVEL DETERMINATION SERVER JANG, CHRISTIAN Y §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2023
17584511 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION METHOD, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM YOON, CHANEL J 3700 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 26, 2022
17527277 BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM CHOI, DAVID 3684 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 16, 2021
17399545 BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM, BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN 3791 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 11, 2021

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