Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
NABTESCO Corporation currently has 10 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. Despite the variety of examiners, the portfolio is contained within 6 distinct art units. This structure suggests that the technical subject matter is grouped within specific areas of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The busiest examiner, KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS, is currently managing 1 pending office action. This reflects a decentralized prosecution strategy where no single examiner holds a majority of the 10 pending office actions. The concentration of applications into 6 distinct art units suggests that some units are handling multiple cases. For practitioners, this means that while examiner-specific tendencies will vary, there may be overlapping technical expertise required across the distinct art units involved in the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS | 1 | — | — |
| PHAM, LEDA T | 1 | 74.8% | +11.5% |
| JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 1 | 69.6% | +16.0% |
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.5% | +17.5% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.2% | +9.4% |
| CASS, JEAN PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +25.5% |
| OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 1 | 73.1% | +24.1% |
| FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 1 | 75.4% | +24.8% |
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670252 | DRIVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18298447 | BRAKE DEVICE FOR RAILWAY VEHICLE | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 20d |
| 18984601 | JOINT MECHANISM FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE | KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS | — |
| 18947516 | DRIVE DEVICE | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
| 18930316 | ACTUATOR UNIT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — |
| 18494969 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471026 | TRANSMISSION | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 14d |
| 18409911 | FLIGHT VEHICLE FOR WHICH ROTATIONAL POSITION OF ROTARY BLADE IS CONTROLLED, MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 33d |
| 18947516 | DRIVE DEVICE | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
| 18864773 | SPEED REDUCER, DRIVE DEVICE, AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18930316 | ACTUATOR UNIT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — |
| 18494969 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984601 | JOINT MECHANISM FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE | KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18947516 | DRIVE DEVICE | PHAM, LEDA T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18864773 | SPEED REDUCER, DRIVE DEVICE, AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18930316 | ACTUATOR UNIT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18670252 | DRIVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18409911 | FLIGHT VEHICLE FOR WHICH ROTATIONAL POSITION OF ROTARY BLADE IS CONTROLLED, MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18494969 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18471026 | TRANSMISSION | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18298447 | BRAKE DEVICE FOR RAILWAY VEHICLE | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
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