Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
20 pending office actions • 13 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nexans has 18 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Those matters involve 17 distinct examiners and 13 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the examining corps and technical organization. The examiner count is close to the pending-action count, while the art-unit count is lower, so some art units handle matters assigned to more than one examiner.
NGUYEN, PHONG H is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That is a limited concentration relative to the portfolio’s total pending workload, while the art-unit distribution indicates that prosecution planning must account for several technical groups. A practitioner may benefit from examiner-specific preparation for the concentrated assignment and art-unit-specific review for the remaining matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 only | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 6 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2 | 70.8% | +20.6% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.1% |
| MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 1 | 77.0% | -3.9% |
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1 | 72.4% | +11.4% |
| ESTRADA, ANGEL R | 1 | 85.5% | -42.9% |
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1 | 67.9% | +19.2% |
| CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 1 | 75.0% | +29.2% |
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
| LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 1 | 78.7% | +33.3% |
| SHAH, NEEL D | 1 | 86.9% | +7.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960502 | Quality control method for a cable specimen | SHAH, NEEL D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18232344 | Method for determining a quality of a cable surface | TON, TRI T | 40d |
| 19199659 | SURFACE ANALYSIS OF CABLE LAYER | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 18998121 | DYNAMIC POWER CABLE ARRANGEMENT WITH MOISTURE INGRESS DETECTION DEVICE | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | — |
| 19033673 | METHOD OF JOINTING CABLES | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
| 19032689 | Assembly for connection of two superconductive cables | ESTRADA, ANGEL R | — |
| 18988894 | Method for characterizing a curved length of cable | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | — |
| 18972497 | Method for winding a cable onto a cable reel | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | — |
| 18960411 | Automated electrical characterization on HV cable peeling | NGUYEN, TUNG X | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199659 | SURFACE ANALYSIS OF CABLE LAYER | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 19033673 | METHOD OF JOINTING CABLES | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
| 19019976 | SHIELDED FLEXIBLE RIBBON CABLE | SWIER, WAYNE K. | — |
| 18988894 | Method for characterizing a curved length of cable | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | — |
| 18968903 | Method for controlling the quality of a transition surface of a high voltage electric component for a transition | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18960454 | Cable peeling based automated electrical characterization and quality control system | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| 18955941 | Cable peeling method and device for peeling a cable specimen | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 4 |
| 2847 | 3 |
| 2858 | 2 |
| 3724 | 2 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199659 | SURFACE ANALYSIS OF CABLE LAYER | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18998121 | DYNAMIC POWER CABLE ARRANGEMENT WITH MOISTURE INGRESS DETECTION DEVICE | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 2847 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19033673 | METHOD OF JOINTING CABLES | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19032689 | Assembly for connection of two superconductive cables | ESTRADA, ANGEL R | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19019976 | SHIELDED FLEXIBLE RIBBON CABLE | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18988894 | Method for characterizing a curved length of cable | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18972497 | Method for winding a cable onto a cable reel | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18968903 | Method for controlling the quality of a transition surface of a high voltage electric component for a transition | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18960502 | Quality control method for a cable specimen | SHAH, NEEL D | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18960411 | Automated electrical characterization on HV cable peeling | NGUYEN, TUNG X | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18960454 | Cable peeling based automated electrical characterization and quality control system | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18955941 | Cable peeling method and device for peeling a cable specimen | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954466 | ARMOURING WIRE CLAMP JOINT | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 2847 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18950636 | TENSILE TEST RIG FOR SUBSEA CABLE PRODUCTS | HA, NGUYEN Q | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18912476 | System and Method for Transferring Temperature Sensitive Fluids | ZEC, FILIP | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18763657 | System for online monitoring of one or more electric cables in an electrical distribution grid | LE, THANG XUAN | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18543358 | BEND RESTRICTOR | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18384941 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HEATING AND SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLYING A HIGH VOLTAGE TO AN ELECTRIC CABLE | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18288865 | Two-layer buckling resistant lead-free water barrier | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18232344 | Method for determining a quality of a cable surface | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNexans has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 19 examiners.
Phong H Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Nexans's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
