Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tsubota Laboratory, Inc. has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units, which indicates a moderate level of technical diversity within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering fields. This distribution provides the company with 5 different examiner perspectives across its active applications.
SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, no reviewer is handling more than a case. The 3 distinct art units suggest that while the 5 examiners are all different, some actions are being reviewed within the same technical departments. This balance of 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units allows the company to manage separate prosecution tracks under SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 | 83.8% | +8.1% |
| ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 1 | 16.7% | +16.3% |
| JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 1 | 53.8% | +37.3% |
| ALLEN, ROBERT F | 1 | 73.2% | +61.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847501 | Aqueous Composition | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18847501 | Aqueous Composition | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 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 |
| 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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