Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SHIMOKAJI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. has managed 967 career applications, primarily focused in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 89.04, demonstrating a high level of success in securing patent grants. This success is achieved with an avg office actions per allowance of 2.57, indicating the typical prosecution cycle for these technologies.
The firm currently handles 4 pending office actions, which is a small fraction of its 967 career applications. This suggests a stable portfolio where most matters have reached resolution. The 89.04 resolved allowance rate pct reflects a strong ability to overcome examiner rejections. Practitioners can view the 2.57 avg office actions per allowance as a benchmark for the firm's efficiency in navigating the patent office's requirements within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, especially when resolving the 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 1 | 91.9% | +11.1% |
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.1% | +13.2% |
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 1 | 52.2% | +30.3% |
| LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1 | 74.0% | +14.5% |
| OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 1 | 54.5% | +19.4% |
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981559 | CHIP VERIFICATION METHOD BASED ON SPI | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18648673 | DEVICE FOR FLATTENING, CONVEYING AND CUTTING METAL WIRES INTO GRANULES | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18689409 | SUPERABSORBENT HYDROGELS WITH LIPASE INHIBITOR | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498497 | QUICK-INSTALLATION SOUNDPROOF CABIN AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREOF | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 4d overdue |
| 18849480 | SHAVING SYSTEM | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 29d |
| 18981559 | CHIP VERIFICATION METHOD BASED ON SPI | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | — |
| 18648673 | DEVICE FOR FLATTENING, CONVEYING AND CUTTING METAL WIRES INTO GRANULES | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18689409 | SUPERABSORBENT HYDROGELS WITH LIPASE INHIBITOR | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
| 18498521 | CUTTING EQUIPMENT FOR METAL STRIP | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 2112 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981559 | CHIP VERIFICATION METHOD BASED ON SPI | Ipgoal Microelectronics (Sichuan) Co., Ltd. | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 2112 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2024 |
| 18849480 | SHAVING SYSTEM | Wenzhou Meibo Technology Co., Ltd. | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 21, 2024 |
| 18648673 | DEVICE FOR FLATTENING, CONVEYING AND CUTTING METAL WIRES INTO GRANULES | Dongguan Sibeifu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18689409 | SUPERABSORBENT HYDROGELS WITH LIPASE INHIBITOR | Junion Labs Pte. Ltd. | LEWIS, PATRICK T | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 | |
| 18498497 | QUICK-INSTALLATION SOUNDPROOF CABIN AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREOF | Dongguan Kingwells Test Equipment Manufacturing Limited | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18498521 | CUTTING EQUIPMENT FOR METAL STRIP | Dongguan Sibeifu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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