Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

22 pending office actions • 17 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 116 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
2
Due this week
8
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (5)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
20
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (64%)
§102 only6 (27%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
10
Communications
45% of docket
8
Semiconductors
36% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CRAWLEY, KEITH L 1 59.0% +26.3%
OKEBATO, SAHLU 1 76.2% +18.5%
AZARI, SEPEHR 1 67.0% +7.9%
CUTLER, ALBERT H 1 79.3% +21.2%
LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY 1 51.7% +9.5%
MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 1 55.6% +66.7%
AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 1 77.6% +11.3%
NGUYEN, TUNG X 1 87.8% +2.7%
DANG, JULIE X 1 83.6% +17.5%
PODDER, PRADIP CHANDRA 1

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18769792 ACOUSTIC APPARATUS DANG, JULIE X 4d overdue
18779548 INPUT OPERATION DEVICE NGUYEN, TUNG X 14d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19217590 DISPLAY DEVICE CRAWLEY, KEITH L 50d overdue
19205488 INPUT APPARATUS AND OUTPUT DETECTION METHOD IN INPUT APPARATUS OKEBATO, SAHLU 24d overdue
18769792 ACOUSTIC APPARATUS DANG, JULIE X 4d overdue
18815283 ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 22d
18944684 MODULE DRIVING DEVICE CUTLER, ALBERT H 43d
18817549 OPENING AND CLOSING CONTROL DEVICE MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2858 5
2692 2
2626 1
2625 1
2621 1
2637 1
2622 1
3658 1
2693 1
2694 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19217590 DISPLAY DEVICE CRAWLEY, KEITH L 2626 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending May 23, 2025
19205488 INPUT APPARATUS AND OUTPUT DETECTION METHOD IN INPUT APPARATUS OKEBATO, SAHLU 2625 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending May 12, 2025
19185914 TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE, TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, AND TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE CALIBRATION METHOD AZARI, SEPEHR 2621 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2025
18944684 MODULE DRIVING DEVICE CUTLER, ALBERT H 2637 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Nov 12, 2024
18883293 INPUT DEVICE LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY 2622 §102 Final Rejection 8d Pending Sep 12, 2024
18817549 OPENING AND CLOSING CONTROL DEVICE MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 3658 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18815283 ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 26, 2024
18779548 INPUT OPERATION DEVICE NGUYEN, TUNG X 2858 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18769792 ACOUSTIC APPARATUS DANG, JULIE X 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2024
18768464 BODILY-SENSIBLE ACOUSTIC DEVICE PODDER, PRADIP CHANDRA 2694 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 10, 2024
18763306 SOUND SYSTEM HAMID, AMMAR T 2695 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18763445 SENSOR APPARATUS POTHEN, FEBA 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18604095 CAPACITIVE SENSOR MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18419372 MULTI-GAP MAGNETIC MOTOR FOR USE IN LOUDSPEAKERS BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 §102 Final Rejection 39d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18408028 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND SWITCHING DEVICE ABRAMS, NEIL 2834 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18397485 AERIAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS LAMB II, CHRISTOPHER A 2882 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18535092 Current Sensor BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18472567 CAPACITIVE SENSOR ANDREWS, BRENT J 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18231336 DISPLAY DEVICE CABINET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE CABINET MIGGINS, MICHAEL C 1782 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18247694 TIRE INFORMATION DETECTION DEVICE ABDI, KAMBIZ 3685 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
17841891 FORCE SENSOR PARCO JR, RUBEN C 2853 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 16, 2022
17664965 FILTER CIRCUIT KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY 2182 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 25, 2022

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