Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specialized technical scope. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units means the company's strategy is highly dependent on a single individual's interpretation.
The 1 pending office action is the only current point of engagement with the USPTO for this company. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution outcome for the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio is entirely dependent on the review of TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is not being split across different examination divisions, which may simplify the resolution of the action. Practitioners must focus their resources on this single interaction to resolve the current workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 83.1% | +10.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550394 | GAS DETECTION DEVICE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 67d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550394 | GAS DETECTION DEVICE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 67d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550394 | GAS DETECTION DEVICE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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