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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tosho Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, resulting in a different examiner for each case. The prosecution is also split across 2 distinct art units, matching the number of pending actions.
The busiest examiner, LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY, handles 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 2 pending office actions are evenly divided between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that even with a small portfolio, the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are technically diverse enough to trigger different USPTO classifications. Practitioners must manage two separate examiner relationships and two different art unit environments, as there is no overlap in the current 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.3% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19133224 | PACKAGING DEVICE | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19133224 | PACKAGING DEVICE | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
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