Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating complete examiner separation within a narrower technical structure.
KUMAR, RAKESH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate positions by art unit while tailoring each response to its assigned examiner.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 54.1% | +8.2% |
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.3% |
| RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 1 | 44.9% | +16.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685016 | MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 56d |
| 19097903 | DRUG PACKAGING SYSTEM | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
| 18953078 | MEDICINE SORTING DEVICE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685016 | MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 56d |
| 19183920 | TABLET DISPENSING DEVICE | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| 18953078 | MEDICINE SORTING DEVICE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183920 | TABLET DISPENSING DEVICE | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19097903 | DRUG PACKAGING SYSTEM | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18953078 | MEDICINE SORTING DEVICE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18685016 | MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 3651 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialYuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Rakesh Kumar has the most, with 1 of Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
