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 • 78 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tomy Company, Ltd. is currently addressing 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 7 distinct examiners, creating a situation where each action is reviewed by a different individual. This level of fragmentation suggests that the company must manage a variety of individual examiner preferences and procedural styles. The lack of overlap among the examiners means that strategies successful in a specific application may not necessarily translate to others in the portfolio.
The workload is spread across 5 distinct art units, which is fewer than the total number of examiners involved. SINGH, SUNIL K is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are responsible for 1 pending action. Because every examiner holds a case, the workload is perfectly distributed. No single examiner, including SINGH, SUNIL K, has more influence than any other over the current state of the applications. This distribution requires the company to maintain a broad and flexible prosecution strategy across the 5 distinct art units.
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 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, SUNIL K | 1 | 39.0% | +26.3% |
| BERONA, KIMBERLY SUE | 1 | 33.8% | +7.7% |
| FULTON, KRISTINA ROSE | 1 | 52.7% | +35.4% |
| MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 1 | 62.0% | +52.0% |
| BODDIE, WILLIAM | 1 | 27.2% | +23.3% |
| NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 72.8% | +21.9% |
| HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 1 | 46.8% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18746739 | LIGHT DISPLAY TOY | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 2d overdue |
| 19178197 | TOP TOY | FULTON, KRISTINA ROSE | — |
| 19178480 | TOP TOY | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | — |
| 18990153 | Top Game Board | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| 18680618 | TOP TOY SET AND TOP TOY | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18746739 | LIGHT DISPLAY TOY | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 2d overdue |
| 19180025 | STADIUM TOY | SINGH, SUNIL K | — |
| 19178197 | TOP TOY | FULTON, KRISTINA ROSE | — |
| 19178480 | TOP TOY | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | — |
| 18990153 | Top Game Board | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| 18680618 | TOP TOY SET AND TOP TOY | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 2 |
| 3711 | 2 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19180025 | STADIUM TOY | SINGH, SUNIL K | 3722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19178518 | TOP TOY | BERONA, KIMBERLY SUE | 3647 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19178197 | TOP TOY | FULTON, KRISTINA ROSE | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19178480 | TOP TOY | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 18990153 | Top Game Board | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 2625 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18746739 | LIGHT DISPLAY TOY | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 3711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18680618 | TOP TOY SET AND TOP TOY | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 3711 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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