Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Maxell Ltd.

72 pending office actions • 48 art units • 72 examiners • 0 of 72 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 122 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

72
Total Pending OAs
50
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
5
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (5)

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.

20
Hard (28%)
41
Medium (57%)
9
Easy (12%)
2
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other3 (4%)
§103 only38 (53%)
§102 only3 (4%)
§112 only4 (6%)
Double-patenting only5 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)16 (22%)
No statute on record2 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
14% of docket
22
Information Tech
31% of docket
11
Communications
15% of docket
7
Semiconductors
10% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
19
Business / Other
26% 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.

720 h
Manual time on pending OAs
144 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
252 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUNTER, MISHAWN N 1 78.2% +14.3%
KHAN, USMAN A 1 74.9% +11.9%
CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 1 74.7% +16.2%
MARANDI, JAMES R 1 60.2% +27.7%
LEMMA, SAMSON B 1 88.2% +11.2%
GYAWALI, BIPIN 1 58.5% -0.1%
MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 1 76.3% +52.3%
CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 1 69.7% +28.6%
SHIBRU, HELEN 1 58.9% +3.1%
TRAN, LOI H 1 64.7% +23.1%

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
19187094 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, APPLICATION SOFTWARE START-UP SYSTEM, AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE START-UP METHOD LEMMA, SAMSON B

Hard Cases (20)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18575445 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL 79d overdue
18690557 WEB CONFERENCE SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND WEB CONFERENCE METHOD BOOK, PHYLLIS A 5d overdue
18948723 MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF ZEE, EDWARD 3d overdue
19092263 VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE AND CAMERA FUNCTION CONTROL PROGRAM SHIBRU, HELEN 8d
18249316 NEURAL NETWORK GENERATION DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL METHOD, AND SOFTWARE GENERATION PROGRAM BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 8d
18573866 ANOMALY DISPLAY DEVICE, ANOMALY DISPLAY PROGRAM, ANOMALY DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND ANOMALY DISPLAY METHOD AHN, CHRISTINE YERA 12d
18684767 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM SHUI, MING 22d
19233186 OPTICAL DEVICE AND DIRECTION DISPLAY DEVICE CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG

Interview Candidates (8)

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
19285753 RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF HUNTER, MISHAWN N
19259289 IMAGING UNIT KHAN, USMAN A
19233186 OPTICAL DEVICE AND DIRECTION DISPLAY DEVICE CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG
19207791 PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND INCOMING CALL NOTIFICATION METHOD MARANDI, JAMES R
19187094 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, APPLICATION SOFTWARE START-UP SYSTEM, AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE START-UP METHOD LEMMA, SAMSON B
19179267 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, USER AUTHENTIFICATION NETWORK SYSTEM, AND USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M
19174045 BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A
19114884 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS TRAN, LOI H

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2421 4
2484 2
2424 2
3992 2
2882 2
2637 1
2625 1
2439 1
2486 1
2622 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19285753 RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF HUNTER, MISHAWN N DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2025
19259289 IMAGING UNIT KHAN, USMAN A 2637 §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2025
19233186 OPTICAL DEVICE AND DIRECTION DISPLAY DEVICE CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2025
19207791 PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND INCOMING CALL NOTIFICATION METHOD MARANDI, JAMES R 2421 §102Other Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2025
19187094 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, APPLICATION SOFTWARE START-UP SYSTEM, AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE START-UP METHOD LEMMA, SAMSON B §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2025
19182811 INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE GYAWALI, BIPIN 2625 §102 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2025
19179267 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, USER AUTHENTIFICATION NETWORK SYSTEM, AND USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 2439 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2025
19174045 BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 2421 §101DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2025
19092263 VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE AND CAMERA FUNCTION CONTROL PROGRAM SHIBRU, HELEN 2484 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 27, 2025
19114884 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS TRAN, LOI H 2484 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 25, 2025
19082446 RECEPTION DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR PROGRAM CONTENT TYPE PRINCE, JESSICA MARIE 2486 §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2025
19075888 PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM MICHAUD, ROBERT J 2622 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2025
19056850 PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AREA WHERE PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL IS PRESENT CHIN, MICHELLE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 19, 2025
18684638 A MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND A CONTROL METHOD THEREOF PRIFTI, AUREL §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2025
18879317 CHAT TERMINAL, CHAT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHAT SYSTEM BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2024
18876693 WEARABLE TERMINAL, LINKED DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND LINKED DISPLAY METHOD STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 2491 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2024
18275714 ELECTRIC-WAVE ABSORBER AND ELECTRIC-WAVE ABSORBING DEVICE JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 2841 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18690894 MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD SHI, IRVING NMN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18869905 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18961766 DIGITAL CONTENTS RECEIVER, DIGITAL CONTENTS RECEIVING METHOD AND DIGITAL CONTENTS TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD EDWARDS, TYLER B DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18948723 MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF ZEE, EDWARD 2435 §101Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2024
18945985 VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND COOPERATIVE CONTROL METHOD IN VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE MENGESHA, MULUGETA A 2424 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 13, 2024
18945073 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBER BYTHROW, PETER M §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 12, 2024
18940133 INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND METHOD SALCE, JASON P 2421 DP Final Rejection Pending Nov 07, 2024
18857870 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SIGNAL MEASURING APPARATUS COLLARD JR, DWANE EDWARD §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2024
18916852 SPACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPACE RECOGNITION METHOD AND INFORMATION TERMINAL PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A 2617 DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18848500 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS CRUZ, MAGDA §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2024
18845466 LENS UNIT, CAMERA MODULE, IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM, AND MOBILE BODY CHERRY, EUNCHA P §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18845622 MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD USED THEREIN ROSARIO, NELSON M 2624 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18822611 MOBILE TERMINAL AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS CHIN, RICKY 2424 §103Other Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 03, 2024
18795744 HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY AND SETTING METHOD NADKARNI, SARVESH J 2629 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Aug 06, 2024
18791854 TASK EXECUTION ORDER DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND TASK EXECUTION METHOD HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 DP Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2024
18783653 PORTABLE DEVICE TEKLE, DANIEL T 2481 Other Final Rejection 41d Pending Jul 25, 2024
18721604 PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD OSINSKI, MICHAEL S 2674 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18715753 FINGER TAPPING MEASUREMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2855 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2024
18675372 ELECTROCHEMICAL OXYGEN SENSOR SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1795 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 28, 2024
18647365 ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE COMPRISING SEPARATOR WITH LAMINATED POROUS LAYERS MARTIN, ANGELA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18640631 MULTIMEDIA PLAYER DISPLAYING OPERATION PANEL DEPENDING ON CONTENTS WASSUM, LUKE S 3992 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18698617 NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT CONTROL METHOD ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N 2824 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2024
18690557 WEB CONFERENCE SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND WEB CONFERENCE METHOD BOOK, PHYLLIS A 2454 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18584166 DISPLAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 2425 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18685014 BATTERY AND USAGE METHOD FOR SAME, AND BATTERY SYSTEM DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2024
18684767 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM SHUI, MING 2663 §103§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 19, 2024
18683403 ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2024
18293941 CYLINDRICAL LITHIUM PRIMARY BATTERY CHENG, VIVIAN S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2024
18293888 ELECTROCARDIAC SIGNAL ANALYSIS DEVICE LAU, MICHAEL J 3796 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 31, 2024
18421311 ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 24, 2024
18575445 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL 2483 §103§112 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18574947 CO-EXTRUDED SHEET CHEN, VIVIAN 1787 §112Other Final Rejection Pending Dec 28, 2023
18573866 ANOMALY DISPLAY DEVICE, ANOMALY DISPLAY PROGRAM, ANOMALY DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND ANOMALY DISPLAY METHOD AHN, CHRISTINE YERA 2615 §103§112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18565732 THREE-DIMENSIONAL CIRCUIT PART AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CIRCUIT PART RIRIE, EVERETT TRAJAN 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18517785 ALKALINE BATTERY SAVAGE, WILLIAM FADDOUL §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2023
18488432 ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PRESENTING INFORMATION FOR DEMENTIA EXAMINATION BERHANU, ETSUB D 3791 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 17, 2023
18264121 DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS LE, RONG 2421 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18263051 NEURAL NETWORK GENERATION DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTING DEVICE, EDGE DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL METHOD, AND SOFTWARE GENERATION PROGRAM DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2023
18218746 IMAGING APPARATUS AND SETTING SCREEN THEREOF PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M 2699 §112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 06, 2023
18268329 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS CHANG, CHARLES S 2871 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2023
18039983 AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS LAMB II, CHRISTOPHER A 2882 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2023
18265019 ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY SYSTEM RAYMOND, BRITTANY L 1722 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2023
18321932 AIRTIGHT PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE TAPE FOR FOUNDATION YANG, ZHEREN J 1781 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 23, 2023
18033091 INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD NGUYEN, PHU K 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18249316 NEURAL NETWORK GENERATION DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL METHOD, AND SOFTWARE GENERATION PROGRAM BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 2121 §102§103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 17, 2023
18119034 HEAD UP DISPLAY APPARATUS HANCE, ROBERT J 3992 §112Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18021246 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY WEST, ROBERT GENE 1721 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2023
18019365 NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT CONTROL METHOD MAIDO, MAGGIE T 2129 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 02, 2023
18019175 CELL CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO 1729 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 01, 2023
18013162 NEURAL NETWORK GENERATING DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK GENERATING METHOD, AND NEURAL NETWORK GENERATING PROGRAM SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE 2122 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 27, 2022
17927844 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY DIETERLE, JENNIFER M 1776 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2022
17802822 MODEL MATERIAL CLEAR COMPOSITION, MODEL MATERIAL COMPOSITION SET, AND COMPOSITION SET FOR OPTICAL SHAPING ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2022
17795839 VEHICULAR INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM HOWARD, RYAN D 2882 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 27, 2022
17412174 PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISPLAYING SOFTWARE APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 25, 2021
16347389 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION SHEET REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending May 03, 2019

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