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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nakanishi Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, with no repeated assignment shown.
APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should treat the matters independently while preserving consistent claim terminology across the device portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 1 | 63.1% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19331322 | DENTAL HANDPIECE | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19331322 | DENTAL HANDPIECE | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialNakanishi Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mirayda Arlene Aponte has the most, with 1 of Nakanishi Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
