Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Toyokoh Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio that currently includes 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is managed by 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a narrow and specific focus for the company's active filings. The data shows 0 distinct art units, which suggests the pending matter is being processed within a singular administrative framework at the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified for this portfolio is KERR, ELIZABETH M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual accounts for the entire active workload of the portfolio. Practitioners should note that the prosecution experience is currently defined by this single interaction with the named examiner.
The lack of multiple examiners or 0 distinct art units implies a streamlined but singular path for the active filing. Without any distinct art units to reference, the focus remains entirely on the individual examiner's requirements. Success for the portfolio depends on a tailored approach to the pending matter and the specific feedback provided by KERR, ELIZABETH M.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERR, ELIZABETH M | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18610573 | LASER PROCESSING METHOD | KERR, ELIZABETH M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18610573 | LASER PROCESSING METHOD | KERR, ELIZABETH M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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