Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tsubota Laboratory, Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. The matching number of pending actions and examiners indicates that each examiner handles one pending matter, while one art unit receives matters from more than one examiner.
SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the pending work spans five art units, a uniform response approach may not address every examination context. Counsel should preserve a matter-specific review while also identifying issues that recur across the examiner assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.7% | +8.2% |
| SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 1 | 16.7% | +16.3% |
| ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 1 | 93.1% | +9.5% |
| JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 1 | 54.0% | +37.4% |
| ALLEN, ROBERT F | 1 | 72.9% | +62.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847501 | Aqueous Composition | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | — |
| 18551167 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION BY LIGHT STIMULATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704809 | METHOD FOR TREATING DISORDERS WITH PHOTOSTIMULATION AND INSTRUMENT USED IN SAID METHOD | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | — |
| 18835615 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS BY PHOTOSTIMULATION AND DEVICE TO BE USED THEREIN | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16982152 | NON-INVASIVE CORNEA AND SCLERA STRENGTHENING DEVICE AND METHOD | ALLEN, ROBERT F | 35d overdue |
| 18835615 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS BY PHOTOSTIMULATION AND DEVICE TO BE USED THEREIN | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | — |
| 18229550 | STAND-ALONE APPLIANCE FOR VIOLET LIGHT DELIVERY TO PREVENT OR SLOW THE PROGRESSION OF MYOPIA | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704809 | METHOD FOR TREATING DISORDERS WITH PHOTOSTIMULATION AND INSTRUMENT USED IN SAID METHOD | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18835615 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS BY PHOTOSTIMULATION AND DEVICE TO BE USED THEREIN | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 3792 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18847501 | Aqueous Composition | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | 1627 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18551167 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION BY LIGHT STIMULATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18229550 | STAND-ALONE APPLIANCE FOR VIOLET LIGHT DELIVERY TO PREVENT OR SLOW THE PROGRESSION OF MYOPIA | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 16982152 | NON-INVASIVE CORNEA AND SCLERA STRENGTHENING DEVICE AND METHOD | ALLEN, ROBERT F | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialTsubota Laboratory, Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Kennedy Schaetzle has the most, with 1 of Tsubota Laboratory, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
