Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Koito Maufacturing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, creating a concentrated prosecution path.
CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can focus on the stated issues in that action and on technical distinctions relevant to the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 62.7% | +37.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108846 | LAMP UNIT | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108846 | LAMP UNIT | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKoito Maufacturing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William Joseph Carter has the most, with 1 of Koito Maufacturing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
