Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 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%)
9
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (70%)
§102 only2 (20%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
20% of docket
8
Semiconductors
80% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PICHLER, MARIN 3 63.6% +8.3%
MOHAMMED, ASSAD 1 73.3% +11.2%
ADDY, THJUAN KNOWLIN 1 89.3% +6.2%
RHODES, JR, LEON W 1 82.2% +11.6%
PATEL, HARSHAD C 1 82.7% +8.7%
KING, GEORGE G 1 58.2% +37.4%
RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL 1 75.0% +13.6%
WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL 1 57.1% +50.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18598017 DRIVING DEVICE, OPTICAL-ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE RHODES, JR, LEON W 134d overdue
18627864 PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION DEVICE, SPEAKER UNIT, AND EARPHONE ADDY, THJUAN KNOWLIN 98d overdue
18404632 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR PATEL, HARSHAD C 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
18598017 DRIVING DEVICE, OPTICAL-ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE RHODES, JR, LEON W 134d overdue
18531963 OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED APPARATUS KING, GEORGE G 87d overdue
18748714 SPEAKER UNIT AND EARPIECE MOHAMMED, ASSAD 49d overdue
17943248 ROTARY RECIPROCATING DRIVE ACTUATOR WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL 18d overdue
18341131 MOVABLE DEVICE, MEMS DEVICE AND OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 5
2691 1
2693 1
2852 1
2831 1
2834 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18748714 SPEAKER UNIT AND EARPIECE MOHAMMED, ASSAD 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18627864 PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION DEVICE, SPEAKER UNIT, AND EARPHONE ADDY, THJUAN KNOWLIN 2693 §102 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18598017 DRIVING DEVICE, OPTICAL-ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE RHODES, JR, LEON W 2852 §103 Non-Final OA 134d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18404632 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR PATEL, HARSHAD C 2831 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18531963 OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED APPARATUS KING, GEORGE G 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18229750 OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE PICHLER, MARIN 2872 §102 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2023
18341131 MOVABLE DEVICE, MEMS DEVICE AND OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL 2834 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jun 26, 2023
17943248 ROTARY RECIPROCATING DRIVE ACTUATOR WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2022
17895291 OPTICAL ACTUATOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE PICHLER, MARIN 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2022
17895113 OPTICAL ACTUATOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE PICHLER, MARIN 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2022

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