Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
NEC Corporation Of America has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the examination corps and technology classifications.
MILLER, RONDE LEE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. The repeated examiner assignment may offer a useful reference point for response strategy, but most matters remain assigned elsewhere.
Counsel should maintain a common review of communications claim terminology while preserving separate analyses for each art unit. Examiner-specific prosecution histories may help identify persuasive distinctions, especially where similar functional language appears in different applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, RONDE LEE | 2 | 75.0% | +21.9% |
| MAUPIN, HUGH H | 1 | 87.5% | +6.3% |
| MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | 1 | 78.3% | +5.8% |
| WRIGHT, BRYAN F | 1 | 78.3% | +24.0% |
| PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 1 | 82.6% | +12.4% |
| MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 1 | 50.0% | +31.1% |
| NGUYEN, CHAU T | 1 | 67.7% | +31.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412671 | DIALOG INSPECTION SYSTEM USING OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 34d |
| 19015696 | IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT | MAUPIN, HUGH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18219774 | GENERATION OF A REDUCED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 65d |
| 18768081 | ROBOTIC CABLE LAYING SYSTEM FOR COMPLEX PATHS | MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | — |
| 18631155 | CONTENT AUTHENTICITY MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING MEDIA CONTENT | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18098166 | AUTHENTICATING VIDEO | MILLER, RONDE LEE | 22d |
| 18412671 | DIALOG INSPECTION SYSTEM USING OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 34d |
| 18142611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING VIDEO | MILLER, RONDE LEE | 41d |
| 18219774 | GENERATION OF A REDUCED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 65d |
| 18631155 | CONTENT AUTHENTICITY MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING MEDIA CONTENT | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | — |
| 18111638 | DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | NGUYEN, CHAU T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 2 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2127 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015696 | IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT | MAUPIN, HUGH H | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18768081 | ROBOTIC CABLE LAYING SYSTEM FOR COMPLEX PATHS | MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18631155 | CONTENT AUTHENTICITY MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING MEDIA CONTENT | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | 2497 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18412671 | DIALOG INSPECTION SYSTEM USING OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18219774 | GENERATION OF A REDUCED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 2127 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 65d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18142611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING VIDEO | MILLER, RONDE LEE | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18111638 | DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | NGUYEN, CHAU T | 2145 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 18098166 | AUTHENTICATING VIDEO | MILLER, RONDE LEE | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNEC Corporation Of America has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
Ronde Lee Miller has the most, with 2 of NEC Corporation Of America's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
