Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Jtekt Corporation

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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%)
3
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (33%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§112 only2 (33%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SEVERSON, JEREMY R 1 87.5% +10.9%
NIESZ, JASON KAROL 1 77.6% +24.9%
MORRISON, THOMAS A 1 73.4% +32.4%
LAGUARDA, GONZALO 1 72.7% +7.1%
BELLINGER, JASON R 1 69.6% +18.7%
KNUTSON, JACOB D 1 79.2% +20.8%

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
19080934 SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS SEVERSON, JEREMY R 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19051169 SHEET CONVEYOR APPARATUS MORRISON, THOMAS A 23d overdue
18289257 WHEEL BEARING DEVICE BELLINGER, JASON R 11d overdue
19080934 SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS SEVERSON, JEREMY R 9d overdue
19073007 ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE ELECTRODE SLURRY MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE ELECTRODE SLURRY NIESZ, JASON KAROL 28d
18278058 AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT, AND STEERING SYSTEM KNUTSON, JACOB D 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1759 1
3753 1
3653 1
3747 1
3615 1
3611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19080934 SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS SEVERSON, JEREMY R 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2025
19073007 ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE ELECTRODE SLURRY MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE ELECTRODE SLURRY NIESZ, JASON KAROL 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 07, 2025
19051169 SHEET CONVEYOR APPARATUS MORRISON, THOMAS A 3653 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2025
18729619 STEERING CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD LAGUARDA, GONZALO 3747 Other Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18289257 WHEEL BEARING DEVICE BELLINGER, JASON R 3615 §112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18278058 AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT, AND STEERING SYSTEM KNUTSON, JACOB D 3611 §112 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Aug 21, 2023

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