Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These active matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's patenting activities are spread across different technical sub-specialties or administrative groups within the patent office.
LEE, MICHAEL S is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This 1 busiest examiner pending case is part of the company's total active workload of 2 pending office actions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners suggests a diversified prosecution landscape relative to the 2 pending office actions, as each file is being reviewed by a different individual in a different unit. This structure requires the company to manage multiple simultaneous interactions across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The data highlights a portfolio that, while small in volume, is technically or administratively varied. Each of the 2 pending office actions is handled by a separate examiner, which may lead to different prosecution timelines.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 63.0% | +20.8% |
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 1 | 64.0% | +23.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682065 | DYED TEXTILE HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER AND METHOD FOR DYEING TEXTILE HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17464118 | OPTICAL SCANNING TYPE VIDEO PROJECTION DEVICE | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 14d |
| 18682065 | DYED TEXTILE HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER AND METHOD FOR DYEING TEXTILE HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18682065 | DYED TEXTILE HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER AND METHOD FOR DYEING TEXTILE HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 17464118 | OPTICAL SCANNING TYPE VIDEO PROJECTION DEVICE | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 01, 2021 |
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