Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tanita Corporation

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, LINH T 1 70.3% +25.8%
MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 1 69.6% +24.7%
TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 1 46.2% +31.1%
PALAVECINO, KATHLEEN GAGE 1 66.3% +37.8%
CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 1 23.8% +22.1%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 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 CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 22d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18146107 MEASUREMENT DEVICE TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 56d overdue
17524919 CLOTHING SIZE ACQUISITION SYSTEM, CLOTHING SIZE ACQUISITION PROGRAM, CLOTHING SELECTION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM PALAVECINO, KATHLEEN GAGE 42d 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
17399545 BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM, BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
2459 1
3688 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 Non-Final OA 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
18146107 MEASUREMENT DEVICE TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 3791 §102 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
17524919 CLOTHING SIZE ACQUISITION SYSTEM, CLOTHING SIZE ACQUISITION PROGRAM, CLOTHING SELECTION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM PALAVECINO, KATHLEEN GAGE 3688 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2021
17399545 BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM, BODY SHAPE DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 11, 2021

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