Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nakanishi Metal Works Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 4 examiners across 3 art units, showing examiner dispersion with some art-unit overlap.
RUSHING, JR, BOBBY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should emphasize application-specific review and use the shared art-unit context to coordinate technical analysis.
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%) |
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.7% | +16.9% |
| JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 1 | 73.9% | +20.3% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962246 | RAIL SUPPORT MEMBER, CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING RAIL IN CONVEYANCE DEVICE | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19150755 | BEARING SEAL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 18962246 | RAIL SUPPORT MEMBER, CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING RAIL IN CONVEYANCE DEVICE | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18917787 | CONVEYANCE DEVICE | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | — |
| 18737487 | UNMANNED TRANSPORT VEHICLE | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19150755 | BEARING SEAL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 18962246 | RAIL SUPPORT MEMBER, CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING RAIL IN CONVEYANCE DEVICE | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18917787 | CONVEYANCE DEVICE | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18737487 | UNMANNED TRANSPORT VEHICLE | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNakanishi Metal Works Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
James Pilkington has the most, with 1 of Nakanishi Metal Works Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
