Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.

21 pending office actions • 18 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 144 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
17
Medium (81%)
2
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (71%)
§102 only2 (10%)
§112 only2 (10%)
No statute on record2 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
24% of docket
2
Information Tech
10% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
5
Semiconductors
24% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IMMANUEL, BAMIDELE ADEFOLARIN 1 66.0% +18.3%
BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 1 71.9% +21.1%
YANG, YI 1 71.2% +17.8%
OVALLE JR., DAVID MESQUITI 1 100.0% +0.0%
CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 1 53.5% +34.8%
HO, MATTHEW 1 73.2% +14.0%
PARRIES, DRU M 1 63.1% +12.8%
MIRZA, ADNAN M 1 84.9% +9.5%
MINNEY, GABRIEL SEBASTIAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
AFRIN, NAZIA 1 53.3% +33.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18599689 METHOD FOR UPLOADING VEHICLE DRIVING DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MIRZA, ADNAN M 53d overdue
18488026 PACKAGE STRUCTURE MINNEY, GABRIEL SEBASTIAN 43d overdue
18736438 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DOORS OF A VEHICLE, VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OVALLE JR., DAVID MESQUITI 35d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18218617 GATEWAY SAFETY CIRCUIT, GATEWAY SAFETY DEVICE, AND VEHICLE EMPLOYING DEVICE AFRIN, NAZIA 169d overdue
18651360 POWDER COMPACTION ASSEMBLY, POWDER LAYING MECHANISM AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 71d overdue
18611135 ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING THE SAME PARRIES, DRU M 56d overdue
18770708 METHOD FOR SCORING SURROUND VIEW MONITOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM YANG, YI 5d overdue
18952976 ANTENNA ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE IMMANUEL, BAMIDELE ADEFOLARIN 9d
18910228 METHOD FOR GENERATING AND CONFIGURING VEHICLE PARAMETERS AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 42d
18639472 PATH PLANNING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM HO, MATTHEW

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3666 2
3669 2
3772 2
2845 1
2616 1
1744 1
2836 1
3667 1
2897 1
2828 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18952976 ANTENNA ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE IMMANUEL, BAMIDELE ADEFOLARIN 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 19, 2024
18910228 METHOD FOR GENERATING AND CONFIGURING VEHICLE PARAMETERS AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Oct 09, 2024
18770708 METHOD FOR SCORING SURROUND VIEW MONITOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM YANG, YI 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2024
18736438 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DOORS OF A VEHICLE, VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OVALLE JR., DAVID MESQUITI 3669 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18651360 POWDER COMPACTION ASSEMBLY, POWDER LAYING MECHANISM AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 1744 §112 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18639472 PATH PLANNING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM HO, MATTHEW 3669 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2024
18611135 ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING THE SAME PARRIES, DRU M 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18599689 METHOD FOR UPLOADING VEHICLE DRIVING DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MIRZA, ADNAN M 3667 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18488026 PACKAGE STRUCTURE MINNEY, GABRIEL SEBASTIAN 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18218617 GATEWAY SAFETY CIRCUIT, GATEWAY SAFETY DEVICE, AND VEHICLE EMPLOYING DEVICE AFRIN, NAZIA 3666 Non-Final OA 169d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18195338 NANOCRYSTAL ARRAY, LASER DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE MENEFEE, JAMES A 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18129012 GRAPHENE HEATING CHIP AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME CLARK, RYAN C 3745 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18129006 METHOD FOR MEASURING AN INTERFACE RESISTANCE OF A FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR ZAKARIA, AKM 2858 §112 Non-Final OA 133d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18096484 WIND COMB CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING A DIRECTION OF WIND WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 3772 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
17861464 AIRBLOWING COMB WITH DIRECTION-ADJUSTABLE AIR-BLOWING AND AIR-HEATING FUNCTION CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2022
17740969 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DIVIDING NEURAL NETWORK BALAKRISHNAN, VIJAY MURALI 2143 §102 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending May 10, 2022
17695251 METHOD OF PREPARING SLURRY WITH ANTI-DENDRITIC LITHIUM FOR COATING DRIED ON ANODE AND BATTERY SO MADE DOVE, TRACY MAE 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2022
17691604 NANOCOMPOSITE LAYER AND BATTERY EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Mar 10, 2022
17654067 COMPOSITE NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE GOULD, ANNA ELIZABETH 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Mar 08, 2022
17516835 METHOD OF TRAINING MODELS IN AI AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 02, 2021
17335387 GLYCERYL ETHER EPOXY RESIN AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME RODD, CHRISTOPHER M 1766 Other Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2021

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