Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

20 pending office actions • 10 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 58 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
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.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
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 (10)Due ≤ 30 days (7)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%)
18
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (70%)
§102 only4 (20%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
15
Semiconductors
75% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
15% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EIDE, ERIC T 2 66.5% +22.7%
MACCHIAROLO, LEAH SIMONE 1 62.2% +31.8%
SEMBER, THOMAS M 1 84.6% +11.2%
ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR 1 71.4% +14.9%
MAI, THIEN T 1 58.9% +20.8%
HAN, JASON 1 68.1% +31.9%
CHAN, WEI 1 74.2% +14.4%
PEERCE, MATTHEW J 1 67.9% +27.1%
SAHLE, MAHIDERE S 1 79.4% +12.9%
BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID 1

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
19026523 VEHICLE HEADLAMP SEMBER, THOMAS M 110d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18852879 VEHICULAR LAMP HAN, JASON 147d overdue
19026523 VEHICLE HEADLAMP SEMBER, THOMAS M 110d overdue
19117741 DRAWING LAMP EIDE, ERIC T 8d overdue
19328239 VEHICLE HEADLAMP EIDE, ERIC T 9d
18710063 ROAD SURFACE DRAWING LAMP AND ROAD SURFACE DRAWING LAMP SYSTEM PEERCE, MATTHEW J 15d
18878221 VEHICULAR HEADLAMP MAI, THIEN T 22d
18788848 LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROLLING DEVICE, VEHICLE POSITION DETECTING DEVICE, VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM, LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROLLING METHOD, AND VEHICLE POSITION DETECTING METHOD CHAN, WEI 22d
19230765 VEHICLE LAMP MACCHIAROLO, LEAH SIMONE 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2875 8
2872 3
3752 2
2876 1
2844 1
2665 1
1711 1
2899 1
2897 1
3669 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19328239 VEHICLE HEADLAMP EIDE, ERIC T 2875 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 15, 2025
19230765 VEHICLE LAMP MACCHIAROLO, LEAH SIMONE 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jun 06, 2025
19117741 DRAWING LAMP EIDE, ERIC T 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2025
19026523 VEHICLE HEADLAMP SEMBER, THOMAS M 2875 §103 Final Rejection 110d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
18878334 VEHICLE LAMP ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR 2875 §102 Final Rejection 46d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18878221 VEHICULAR HEADLAMP MAI, THIEN T 2876 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18852879 VEHICULAR LAMP HAN, JASON 2875 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2024
18788848 LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROLLING DEVICE, VEHICLE POSITION DETECTING DEVICE, VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM, LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROLLING METHOD, AND VEHICLE POSITION DETECTING METHOD CHAN, WEI 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 30, 2024
18710063 ROAD SURFACE DRAWING LAMP AND ROAD SURFACE DRAWING LAMP SYSTEM PEERCE, MATTHEW J 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 14, 2024
18709725 IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY SAHLE, MAHIDERE S 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 13, 2024
18709428 SENSING SYSTEM BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID 2665 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 10, 2024
18633633 SADDLE-RIDING VEHICLE AND HEADLAMP UNIT SONG, ZHENG B 2875 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18699210 CLEANER NOZZLE LEE, CHEE-CHONG 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18699064 CLEANER CHAUDHRI, OMAIR 1711 Non-Final OA 169d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18691099 IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18683678 DISPLAY APPARATUS RAKOWSKI, CARA E 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024
18577517 SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, VEHICLE LAMP, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT HARRISTON, WILLIAM A 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18577604 SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT ABEL, GARY ROBERT 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18276913 VEHICLE HEADLIGHT HASSANIARDEKANI, HAJAR 3669 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18147121 NOZZLE, NOZZLE ASSEMBLY, AND CLEANER DEVICE BOECKMANN, JASON J 3752 §103 Final Rejection 180d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022

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