Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

NEC Corportion

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (33%)
2
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (33%)
§103 only1 (33%)
§102 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 1 43.6% +48.0%
HE, JIALONG 1 81.5% +33.1%
BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL 1 55.4% +41.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18718511 REQUEST EXTRACTION DEVICE HE, JIALONG 9d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18910060 STATUS NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, STATUS NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18282090 EVACUATION ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, EVACUATION ROUTE CREATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL 80d overdue
18718511 REQUEST EXTRACTION DEVICE HE, JIALONG 9d overdue
18910060 STATUS NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, STATUS NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3628 1
2659 1
3666 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18910060 STATUS NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, STATUS NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 3628 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18718511 REQUEST EXTRACTION DEVICE HE, JIALONG 2659 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 11, 2024
18282090 EVACUATION ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, EVACUATION ROUTE CREATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL 3666 §103 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023

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