Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very narrow and specific area of current activity. The company is working with 1 distinct examiner to resolve this action.
FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. This represents the company's entire active prosecution presence at the patent office. The focus on a single examiner and a single art unit indicates a very concentrated scope of current activity within the mechanical engineering field. To advance its portfolio, the company only needs to address the technical requirements of this 1 distinct art unit and the specific examination style of this one individual examiner, suggesting a highly focused prosecution path.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850598 | TOOL REPLACING DEVICE | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850598 | TOOL REPLACING DEVICE | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850598 | TOOL REPLACING DEVICE | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialNakamura-Tome Precision Industry Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Darrell Christopher Ford has the most, with 1 of Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
