Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tomoegawa Co., Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is currently being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated prosecution profile suggests that the company's current efforts at the patent office are focused on a single technical development.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action means that the applicant only needs to navigate the preferences and requirements of one individual. This avoids the administrative burden of managing multiple pending cases across different art units. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific issues raised in this single 1 distinct art unit.
CHOU, JIMMY is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 busiest examiner pending, the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the decisions of this single examiner. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current workload in this specific technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036818 | HEATING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHOU, JIMMY | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18036818 | HEATING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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