Casio Computer Co. Ltd.

Portfolio Summary

65

Total Pending OAs

40

Non-Final OAs

24

Final Rejections

1

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 65 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

32

Overdue

2

Due this week

17

Due this month

8

Due in next 60 days

6

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. 65 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

Overdue (32)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (17)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (6)

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.

3

Hard (5%)

54

Medium (83%)

7

Easy (11%)

1

Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§101 only	3 (5%)
§103 only	51 (78%)
§102 only	3 (5%)
§112 only	7 (11%)
No statute on record	1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

1

Life Sciences

2% of docket

6

Information Tech

9% of docket

8

Communications

12% of docket

20

Semiconductors

31% of docket

30

Mechanical / Eng

46% 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.

650 h

Manual time on pending OAs

130 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

227 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

5.7 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	3	84.0%	+5.0%
SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT	3	57.9%	+16.8%
UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J	3	62.2%	+9.6%
WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	2	91.7%	+10.1%
QIN, JIANCHUN	2	69.4%	+14.0%
DOROS, KAYLA RENEE	1	72.4%	+7.8%
STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM	1	66.7%	-6.7%
LAVINDER, JACK W	1	65.3%	+28.1%
MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH	1	57.1%	+75.0%
PATTON, SPENCER D	1	73.6%	+21.4%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
17888882	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HAND, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	201d overdue
18063799	WATCH	HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	15d overdue
18599987	TIMEPIECE MODULE AND ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE	HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	5d overdue
18602679	DEVICE AND WATCH	HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	5d
18693662	CONNECTOR AND TIMEPIECE	WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	22d

Hard Cases (3)

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
17642840	ANSWER EVALUATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS	BODENDORF, ANDREW	9d overdue
17897128	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM	MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN	22d
18585490	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MCCLELLAN, JAMES S	70d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
17888882	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HAND, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	201d overdue
17981295	AUTOMATIC MUSIC PLAYING CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF PLAYING AUTOMATIC MUSIC PLAYING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM	SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT	31d overdue
18894132	ROBOT, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH	9d overdue
18181807	ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF GENERATING MUSICAL SOUND, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM	SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT	9d overdue
18892907	APPARATUS CONTROL DEVICE, APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	PATTON, SPENCER D	8d overdue
17694412	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD	QIN, JIANCHUN	4d overdue
18693662	CONNECTOR AND TIMEPIECE	WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	22d
18962468	BAND PIECE, BAND AND TIMEPIECE	LAVINDER, JACK W	28d

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
2831	7
2837	6
3657	3
3656	3
3715	3
3619	3
3658	2
3677	2
3792	2
3648	2

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
18986266	ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT, AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD	DOROS, KAYLA RENEE	3657	§103	Non-Final OA	2d overdue	Pending	Dec 18, 2024
18982229	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM	3658	§103	Non-Final OA	21d	Pending	Dec 16, 2024
18962468	BAND PIECE, BAND AND TIMEPIECE	LAVINDER, JACK W	3677	§112	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Nov 27, 2024
18894132	ROBOT, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH	3656	§102	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Sep 24, 2024
18892907	APPARATUS CONTROL DEVICE, APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	PATTON, SPENCER D	3656	§103	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Sep 23, 2024
18887419	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MCPHERSON, JAMES M	3663	§103	Non-Final OA	24d overdue	Pending	Sep 17, 2024
18887141	IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE	GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L	3683	§103	Final Rejection	41d	Pending	Sep 17, 2024
18845630	COVER COMPONENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE UNIT	ASMAT UCEDA, MARTIN ANTONIO	2841	§103	Non-Final OA	31d overdue	Pending	Sep 10, 2024
18821972	ROBOT, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI	3656	§103	Final Rejection	34d	Pending	Aug 30, 2024
18821693	IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	KASPER, BYRON XAVIER	3657	§103	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Aug 30, 2024
18809979	ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ANTENNA CHARACTERISTIC ADJUSTING METHOD	SALIH, AWAT M	2845	§112	Non-Final OA	36d overdue	Pending	Aug 20, 2024
18804587	WEB APPLICATION SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING WEB APPLICATION PROGRAM, AND WEB APPLICATION PROVIDING METHOD	GEE, JASON KAI YIN	2495	§103	Final Rejection	14d	Pending	Aug 14, 2024
18802079	INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER	2611	§103	Non-Final OA	20d	Pending	Aug 13, 2024
18782425	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM	NOVAK, REBECCA R	3629	§103	Final Rejection	21d	Pending	Jul 24, 2024
18752809	DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	ROBINSON, TERRELL M	2614	§103	Final Rejection	66d overdue	Pending	Jun 25, 2024
18702058	DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE	MERCHANT, SHAHID R	3684	§103	Final Rejection	5d overdue	Pending	Apr 17, 2024
18633284	ELECTRONIC UNIT, PROJECTOR, AND COOLING CONTROL METHOD	LE, BAO-LUAN Q	2882	§103	Non-Final OA	9d	Pending	Apr 11, 2024
18613331	PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM	GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA	3688	§103	Non-Final OA	36d overdue	Pending	Mar 22, 2024
18693662	CONNECTOR AND TIMEPIECE	WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	2831	§112	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Mar 20, 2024
18604204	ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD EQUIPMENT	LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R	2837	§103	Non-Final OA	11d overdue	Pending	Mar 13, 2024
18602679	DEVICE AND WATCH	HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	2831	§112	Non-Final OA	5d	Pending	Mar 12, 2024
18602690	DISPLAY DEVICE, WATCH, AND DISPLAY DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD	CARRUTH, JENNIFER DOAK	2871	§103	Non-Final OA	33d	Pending	Mar 12, 2024
18602634	DEVICE AND WATCH	JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW	2831	§112	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Mar 12, 2024
18599987	TIMEPIECE MODULE AND ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE	HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	2831	§103	Non-Final OA	5d overdue	Pending	Mar 08, 2024
18595597	IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM	LE, TUAN H	2638	§103	Non-Final OA	15d overdue	Pending	Mar 05, 2024
18587226	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	DISTEFANO, GREGORY A	2174	§103	Non-Final OA	28d overdue	Pending	Feb 26, 2024
18585490	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MCCLELLAN, JAMES S	3715	§101	Final Rejection	70d	Pending	Feb 23, 2024
18430759	INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	MERCADO, GABRIEL S	2171	§103	Non-Final OA	5d overdue	Pending	Feb 02, 2024
18414564	MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN	2858	§103	Final Rejection	8d	Pending	Jan 17, 2024
18414583	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SLEEP STATE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES	3792	§103	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Jan 17, 2024
18543097	IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, SERVER APPARATUS, CLIENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS	ASPINWALL, EVAN S	2152	§103	Final Rejection	70d	Pending	Dec 18, 2023
18470880	TIMEPIECE COMPONENT, CASE, TIMEPIECE AND TIMEPIECE COMPONENT MANUFACTURING METHOD	LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A	2831	§103	Non-Final OA	16d	Pending	Sep 20, 2023
18243210	STIRRING DEVICE AND STIRRING METHOD	MCCARTY, PATRICK M	1774	§103	Non-Final OA	19d overdue	Pending	Sep 07, 2023
18243561	APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN	3658	§103	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Sep 07, 2023
18242534	APPARATUS, APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	MANCHO, RONNIE M	3657	§102	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Sep 06, 2023
18460890	MODULE AND WEARABLE DEVICE	VOORHEES, CATHERINE M	3792	§103	Final Rejection	24d overdue	Pending	Sep 05, 2023
18279005	ACOUSTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE	ABULABAN, ABDALLAH	3645	§103	Non-Final OA	33d	Pending	Aug 25, 2023
18364287	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA	3648	§102	Final Rejection	21d	Pending	Aug 02, 2023
18362291	WEARABLE DEVICE, MOVEMENT INFORMATION ACQUISITION CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM	ZHU, NOAH YI MIN	3648	§103	Final Rejection	29d overdue	Pending	Jul 31, 2023
18212977	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	RODGERS, ALEXANDER JOHN	2661	§112	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Jun 22, 2023
18332061	BAND LINK, WATCH BAND, WATCH, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF BAND LINK	MORGAN, EMILY M	3677	§103	Non-Final OA	22d overdue	Pending	Jun 09, 2023
18201287	APPLYING SYSTEM CONTROLLING A TIMING BETWEEN DRYING AND APPLICATION PROCESSES OF APPLIED MATERIALS	SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J	2117	§103	Final Rejection	5d	Pending	May 24, 2023
18189471	DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE	LADONI, AHOORA	3689	§103	Final Rejection	83d	Pending	Mar 24, 2023
18181807	ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF GENERATING MUSICAL SOUND, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM	SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT	2837	§103	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Mar 10, 2023
18044922	ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM	UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J	3619	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Mar 10, 2023
18022997	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, EXERCISE DATA ACQUISITION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	HAGOS, EYOB	2857	§103	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	Feb 24, 2023
18098160	INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM	D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY	3715	§103	Final Rejection	73d overdue	Pending	Jan 18, 2023
18068166	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM	ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE	2625	§103	Non-Final OA	19d	Pending	Dec 19, 2022
18063799	WATCH	HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL	2831	§103	Non-Final OA	15d overdue	Pending	Dec 09, 2022
18055742	PHYSICAL STRENGTH EVALUATION SYSTEM, PHYSICAL STRENGTH EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM	FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR	3796	§103	Final Rejection	1d overdue	Pending	Nov 15, 2022
17981295	AUTOMATIC MUSIC PLAYING CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF PLAYING AUTOMATIC MUSIC PLAYING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM	SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT	2837	§103	Non-Final OA	31d overdue	Pending	Nov 04, 2022
17967032	MUSICAL PERFORMANCE APPARATUS, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PHRASE DETERMINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J	3619	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Oct 17, 2022
17947297	SCREEN GENERATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS	AHN, CHRISTINE YERA	2615	§103	Final Rejection	33d	Pending	Sep 19, 2022
17943077	SPATIAL POSITIONING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SPATIAL POSITIONING METHOD	RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R	2682	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Sep 12, 2022
17943055	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND POSITIONING METHOD	ZHANG, WAYNE	2672	§103	Final Rejection	84d	Pending	Sep 12, 2022
17900320	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DETERMINING WEARING STATE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM	NGUYEN, LAM S	2853	§103	Final Rejection	70d	Pending	Aug 31, 2022
17897128	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM	MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN	2189	§101	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Aug 27, 2022
17888882	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HAND, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES	2831	§103	Non-Final OA	201d overdue	Pending	Aug 16, 2022
17877330	METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM	QIN, JIANCHUN	2837	Other	Final Rejection	56d	Pending	Jul 29, 2022
17847599	ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD THEREFOR	UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J	3619	§112	Non-Final OA	114d overdue	Pending	Jun 23, 2022
17826073	METHODS, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT	2837	§103	Final Rejection	70d	Pending	May 26, 2022
17698603	MARKER EVALUATION SYSTEM, MARKER EVALUATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM	BROCKETTI, JULIE K	3700	§103	Final Rejection	34d	Pending	Mar 18, 2022
17642840	ANSWER EVALUATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS	BODENDORF, ANDREW	3715	§101	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Mar 14, 2022
17694412	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD	QIN, JIANCHUN	2837	§103	Final Rejection	4d overdue	Pending	Mar 14, 2022
17541887	DETECTION DEVICE AND BODY-WORN DEVICE	SHOSTAK, ANDREY	3791	§103	Final Rejection	46d overdue	Pending	Dec 03, 2021

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