Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution means that each of the 5 pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual.
KHAYER, SOHANA T is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The use of 5 different examiners for 5 actions suggests a highly individualized review process for each application within the 2 art units. For a practitioner, this indicates that the company's mechanical systems portfolio is being subjected to a variety of examiner perspectives, even though the technical focus is limited to just 2 art units. This can lead to different prosecution experiences across the 5 pending office actions. The concentration in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area highlights the company's primary technical field of interest for its current patent filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAYER, SOHANA T | 1 | 81.9% | +18.7% |
| NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | 1 | 72.7% | +31.8% |
| ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 1 | 83.2% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496935 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE ASSEMBLY APPARATUS | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825093 | ROBOT WELDING SYSTEM | NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | 70d |
| 19046744 | CAPACITANCE SENSOR AND ROBOT SYSTEM | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — |
| 18424898 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY APPARATUS | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046744 | CAPACITANCE SENSOR AND ROBOT SYSTEM | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — |
| 18424898 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY APPARATUS | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — |
| 18496935 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE ASSEMBLY APPARATUS | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19046744 | CAPACITANCE SENSOR AND ROBOT SYSTEM | KHAYER, SOHANA T | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18825093 | ROBOT WELDING SYSTEM | NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | 3656 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18424898 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY APPARATUS | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18496935 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE ASSEMBLY APPARATUS | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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