Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Fcl Components Limited

Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Fcl Components Limited has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the reported docket has separate examination assignments throughout.

DAVIS, DAVID DONALD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution should be managed through matter-specific examiner analysis, supported by centralized review for consistency in technical and claim positions.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

2
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
33% of docket
1
Semiconductors
33% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 1 70.3% +9.6%
MRUK, GEOFFREY S 1 92.4% +3.0%
HULBERT, AMANDA K 1 84.7% +4.2%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19014711 ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND PRINTER MRUK, GEOFFREY S —

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19225439 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH PANEL DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 31d overdue
18676047 DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND MODEL GENERATION DEVICE HULBERT, AMANDA K —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2627 1
2853 1
3792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19225439 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH PANEL DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 2627 §102§103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2025
19014711 ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND PRINTER MRUK, GEOFFREY S 2853 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 09, 2025
18676047 DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND MODEL GENERATION DEVICE HULBERT, AMANDA K 3792 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 28, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Fcl Components Limited have?

Fcl Components Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Fcl Components Limited applications?

David Donald Davis has the most, with 1 of Fcl Components Limited's pending office actions.

What technology area are Fcl Components Limited's patent applications in?

Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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