Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yamazaki Mazak Corporation has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which shows that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution prevents the company's current prosecution progress from being tied to the workload of any one person.
The pending actions are located within 3 distinct art units. This involvement in 3 units suggests that the company's technical focus in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is divided between different administrative specialties at the patent office. Managing the pending office actions across different art units requires attention to the specific procedural habits of those groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is SAAD, ERIN BARRY, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is responsible for 1 of the pending actions, the workload is spread across the examiners. This parity means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are equally dependent on the findings of each examiner involved in the 4 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1 | 72.4% | +11.5% |
| SALONE, BAYAN | 1 | 76.2% | +17.4% |
| ADDISU, SARA | 1 | 85.4% | +10.7% |
| RAMOS, NICOLE N | 1 | 81.4% | +9.9% |
| CADUGAN, ERICA E | 1 | 63.1% | +50.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329581 | COOLANT DISCHARGER, WORKPIECE HOLDER, WORKPIECE ROTATOR, MACHINE TOOL, AND METHOD OF USING COOLANT DISCHARGER | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 23d |
| 18583859 | WORKPIECE SUPPORT, MACHINE TOOL, AND METHOD OF USING MACHINE TOOL | ADDISU, SARA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823687 | COOLANT SUPPLY EQUIPMENT, MACHINE TOOL, METHOD OF SUPPLYING COOLANT TO MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| 17679096 | TOOL STORAGE AND MACHINE TOOL | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19208589 | FRICTION STIR WELDING METHOD, PRODUCTION METHOD OF AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT, MACHINE TOOL, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
| 18823687 | COOLANT SUPPLY EQUIPMENT, MACHINE TOOL, METHOD OF SUPPLYING COOLANT TO MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| 18583859 | WORKPIECE SUPPORT, MACHINE TOOL, AND METHOD OF USING MACHINE TOOL | ADDISU, SARA | — |
| 17679096 | TOOL STORAGE AND MACHINE TOOL | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 3 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208589 | FRICTION STIR WELDING METHOD, PRODUCTION METHOD OF AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT, MACHINE TOOL, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 18823687 | COOLANT SUPPLY EQUIPMENT, MACHINE TOOL, METHOD OF SUPPLYING COOLANT TO MACHINE TOOL | SALONE, BAYAN | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18583859 | WORKPIECE SUPPORT, MACHINE TOOL, AND METHOD OF USING MACHINE TOOL | ADDISU, SARA | 3722 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18329581 | COOLANT DISCHARGER, WORKPIECE HOLDER, WORKPIECE ROTATOR, MACHINE TOOL, AND METHOD OF USING COOLANT DISCHARGER | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 3722 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 17679096 | TOOL STORAGE AND MACHINE TOOL | CADUGAN, ERICA E | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
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