Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Furuno Electric Co. Ltd.

14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (4)

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.

1
Hard (7%)
12
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only11 (79%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only1 (7%)

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
7% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
79% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEUNG, CALVIN K 1 87.7% +8.3%
MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE 1 45.2% +33.9%
GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 1 31.1% +1.1%
KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M 1 64.7% +15.8%
IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 1 89.2% +6.9%
NGUYEN, CHUONG P 1 78.8% +13.4%
HAGOS, EYOB 1 67.0% +41.6%
LE, JOHN H 1 87.9% +7.4%
HO, MATTHEW 1 73.2% +14.0%
MATTA, ALEXANDER GEORGE 1 71.9% +21.3%

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
18518694 SHIP MONITORING DEVICE, SHIP MONITORING METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 60d overdue
19025496 SHIP CONTROL DEVICE, SHIP CONTROL METHOD, SHIP CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CHEUNG, CALVIN K 22d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18478489 ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DEVICE LE, JOHN H 76d

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
18537817 SHIP MONITORING SYSTEM, SHIP MONITORING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M 60d overdue
18174400 SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM MATTA, ALEXANDER GEORGE 11d overdue
18502511 POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM NGUYEN, CHUONG P 2d overdue
18957971 POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD AND POSITIONING PROGRAM MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE 34d
18351330 AUGMENTED REALITY VESSEL MANEUVERING SYSTEM AND METHOD HO, MATTHEW 75d
18383974 SHIP MONITORING SYSTEM, AND SHIP MONITORING METHOD HAGOS, EYOB 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3663 3
3669 2
3668 2
2857 2
3665 1
3662 1
3646 1
2674 1
3658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19025496 SHIP CONTROL DEVICE, SHIP CONTROL METHOD, SHIP CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CHEUNG, CALVIN K 3669 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 16, 2025
18957971 POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD AND POSITIONING PROGRAM MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18746099 NAVIGATION ASSIST SYSTEM, NAVIGATION ASSIST METHOD, AND PROGRAM GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 3668 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18537817 SHIP MONITORING SYSTEM, SHIP MONITORING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M 3665 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18518694 SHIP MONITORING DEVICE, SHIP MONITORING METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 3662 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2023
18502511 POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM NGUYEN, CHUONG P 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18383974 SHIP MONITORING SYSTEM, AND SHIP MONITORING METHOD HAGOS, EYOB 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Oct 26, 2023
18478489 ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DEVICE LE, JOHN H 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18351330 AUGMENTED REALITY VESSEL MANEUVERING SYSTEM AND METHOD HO, MATTHEW 3669 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18174400 SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND SHIP NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM MATTA, ALEXANDER GEORGE 3668 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18174455 SHIP STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE, SHIP STATE ESTIMATION SYSTEM, SHIP STATE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND SHIP STATE ESTIMATION PROGRAM UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18161700 CLOUD OBSERVATION SYSTEM, CLOUD OBSERVATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM TRAN, DUY ANH 2674 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jan 30, 2023
17840595 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY DETERMINING TARGET AREA FOR VESSELS PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3658 §112 Final Rejection 68d Pending Jun 14, 2022
17348963 SHIP TARGET OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM, METHOD OF DETECTING SHIP TARGET OBJECT AND RELIABILITY ESTIMATING DEVICE SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 3663 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2021

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