Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. has 12 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units. This broad distribution indicates that the company's filings cover a variety of technical sub-fields. Managing such a diverse portfolio requires the company to adapt to many different examiner preferences and art unit specific practices.
MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are spread across the other distinct examiners. With 8 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate multiple different administrative and technical groups within the USPTO. The fact that the 12 pending office actions are spread across 11 distinct examiners shows a high degree of decentralization, meaning that no single examiner has a dominant impact on the overall portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 (8%) |
| §103 only | 6 (46%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 2 | 72.0% | +29.3% |
| GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 1 | 77.0% | +17.8% |
| BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 1 | 73.7% | +23.1% |
| KUJUNDZIC, DINO | 1 | 73.7% | +27.7% |
| FRAZIER, BRADY W | 1 | 78.4% | +27.3% |
| NAH, JONGBONG | 1 | 75.2% | +17.5% |
| LU, ZHIYU | 1 | 48.9% | +14.1% |
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.7% | +37.2% |
| NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 1 | 79.1% | +13.4% |
| COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1 | 80.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18349832 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING STIRRING QUALITY OF A CHEMICAL ANALYZER | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502511 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 2d overdue |
| 19044273 | SHIP CONTROL DEVICE, SHIP CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | — |
| 18965785 | SHIP INFORMATION SHARING DEVICE, SHIP INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND SHIP INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18882777 | TARGET TRACKING APPARATUS AND TARGET TRACKING METHOD | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — |
| 18666771 | TARGET MONITORING SYSTEM, TARGET MONITORING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LU, ZHIYU | — |
| 18515177 | ANALYSIS DEVICE | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502511 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 2d overdue |
| 19264995 | SMALL SIGNAL DETECTION FILTER | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | — |
| 19217875 | NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE METHOD | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | — |
| 19044273 | SHIP CONTROL DEVICE, SHIP CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | — |
| 18965785 | SHIP INFORMATION SHARING DEVICE, SHIP INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND SHIP INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18915328 | AUTOMATIC TUNING DEVICE, MAGNETRON RADAR, AUTOMATIC TUNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18882777 | TARGET TRACKING APPARATUS AND TARGET TRACKING METHOD | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — |
| 18677863 | TARGET MONITORING DEVICE, TARGET MONITORING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | NAH, JONGBONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264995 | SMALL SIGNAL DETECTION FILTER | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19217875 | NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE METHOD | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19044273 | SHIP CONTROL DEVICE, SHIP CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | 3658 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18965785 | SHIP INFORMATION SHARING DEVICE, SHIP INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND SHIP INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18915328 | AUTOMATIC TUNING DEVICE, MAGNETRON RADAR, AUTOMATIC TUNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18882777 | TARGET TRACKING APPARATUS AND TARGET TRACKING METHOD | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18677863 | TARGET MONITORING DEVICE, TARGET MONITORING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | NAH, JONGBONG | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18666771 | TARGET MONITORING SYSTEM, TARGET MONITORING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LU, ZHIYU | 2665 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18515177 | ANALYSIS DEVICE | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18502511 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18349832 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING STIRRING QUALITY OF A CHEMICAL ANALYZER | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18174400 | SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | MATTA, ALEXANDER GEORGE | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17951027 | FISH SPECIES DISCRIMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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