Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
TANITA Corporation maintains a robust and highly diversified prosecution pipeline within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently managing 6 pending office actions. This level of activity indicates a significant and ongoing investment in protecting its intellectual property across multiple fronts. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that the company's applications are reviewed by a wide range of individuals with potentially different examination styles.
The portfolio's reach extends across 5 distinct art units, suggesting a broad technical focus within the medical and mechanical fields. NGUYEN, LINH T is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, although she is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This means that the workload is perfectly balanced, with each of the 6 distinct examiners handling exactly one action. This highly distributed structure across many art units minimizes the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (57%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LINH T | 1 | 70.8% | +26.5% |
| MESSERSMITH, ERIC J | 1 | 69.4% | +25.0% |
| MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | 1 | 8.8% | +22.1% |
| JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | 1 | 68.5% | +21.0% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 49.8% | +32.1% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.0% | +40.1% |
| CHOI, DAVID | 1 | 18.8% | +27.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18146107 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 56d overdue |
| 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 | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18146107 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 56d overdue |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2459 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18146107 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17584511 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION METHOD, FRAUD MEASUREMENT DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | YOON, CHANEL J | 3700 | §103§112 | 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 |
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