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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yamamoto Kogaku Co. Ltd. shows a concentrated prosecution profile in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, featuring 1 pending office action. This activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular point of contact within the USPTO. Such a focus suggests that the current legal efforts are directed toward a specific innovation or an application filing.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only the pending office action in total for the company, this examiner is the arbiter for the portfolio's current status. Success for the portfolio depends on navigating the requirements set forth by this individual in their specific art unit.
The presence of the distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter has not branched into different Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classifications. For the practitioner, this means that resources can be dedicated to the pending office action without the need to reconcile conflicting examiner styles. The prosecution strategy is streamlined, as the distinct examiner manages the entirety of the company's active patent pipeline for Yamamoto Kogaku Co. Ltd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | 1 | 31.3% | +70.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17935411 | PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR RESPIRATION, PROTECTIVE SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATION, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17935411 | PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR RESPIRATION, PROTECTIVE SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATION, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialYamamoto Kogaku Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Graciela Natalia Lebron De Jesus has the most, with 1 of Yamamoto Kogaku Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
