Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Corporation Saitama University has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, so the current record involves one examination path.
ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. This gives the prosecution team a defined examiner and art-unit context for its next action. Review should focus on the pending claims, technical disclosure, and response options relevant to semiconductor, circuit, and optics examination.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN | 1 | 77.7% | +8.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590487 | ROTATING APPARATUS, MOTOR, AND PUMP | ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18590487 | ROTATING APPARATUS, MOTOR, AND PUMP | ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNational University Corporation Saitama University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Derek John Rosenau has the most, with 1 of National University Corporation Saitama University's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
