Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnecomp Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KIM, MICHELLE JINJU is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's 2 pending office actions are being prosecuted independently by different examiners in separate art units, requiring a unique strategy for each individual matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 1 | 70.0% | +50.0% |
| CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 1 | 62.9% | +24.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184880 | Head Gimbal Assembly With Gimbal Tethers For Hard Disk Drive Device | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 24d overdue |
| 16669251 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATORS HAVING WRAP-AROUND ELECTRODES | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19184880 | Head Gimbal Assembly With Gimbal Tethers For Hard Disk Drive Device | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 16669251 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATORS HAVING WRAP-AROUND ELECTRODES | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 3729 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Oct 30, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialMagnecomp Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michelle Jinju Kim has the most, with 1 of Magnecomp Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
