Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
18 pending office actions • 15 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days
Murata Machinery Ltd. has 18 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 18 distinct examiners across 15 distinct art units, showing that examiner assignments are fully separate while some art units receive multiple matters.
NGUYEN, CUONG H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of examiner overlap makes broad response coordination more important than management of a recurring examiner relationship. Art-unit grouping may help identify shared technical or procedural considerations.
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 | 9 (50%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CUONG H | 1 | 78.7% | +8.9% |
| MORALES, OMAR | 1 | 59.9% | +16.4% |
| DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 1 | 77.2% | +10.5% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.7% | +16.9% |
| CROMER, ANDREW J | 1 | 75.8% | +18.2% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 1 | 51.0% | +19.1% |
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.2% | +19.4% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.7% | +7.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863722 | PICKING DEVICE | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 18863723 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860176 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSPORT VEHICLES | NGUYEN, CUONG H | — |
| 19114006 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 18865833 | PICKING DEVICE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18839500 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| 18730896 | OPERATING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — |
| 18708134 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857663 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM | CROMER, ANDREW J | 41d |
| 19115174 | RAIL-GUIDED CARRIER SYSTEM | MORALES, OMAR | — |
| 19114006 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 18865833 | PICKING DEVICE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18863722 | PICKING DEVICE | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 18863723 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18843925 | WAFER CONTAINER AND WAFER SUPPORT | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 18839500 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 2 |
| 3653 | 2 |
| 3652 | 2 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860176 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSPORT VEHICLES | NGUYEN, CUONG H | 3664 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19115174 | RAIL-GUIDED CARRIER SYSTEM | MORALES, OMAR | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19114006 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18865833 | PICKING DEVICE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18863722 | PICKING DEVICE | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18863723 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18857663 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18843925 | WAFER CONTAINER AND WAFER SUPPORT | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18839500 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18839231 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18730896 | OPERATING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 2119 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18708134 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18700352 | PURGE SYSTEM | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 3753 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18575283 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE | GLENN III, FRANK T | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18573090 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18275031 | POWER RECEIVING DEVICE AND CONTACTLESS POWER FEEDING SYSTEM | BARNETT, JOEL | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18033394 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAVELING VEHICLE | ROBINSON, KITO R | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18008693 | NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, CONVEYING SYSTEM, AND PARAMETER SETTING METHOD | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMurata Machinery Ltd. has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 18 examiners.
Cuong H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Murata Machinery Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
