Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ngk Spark Plug Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The record identifies 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, so the outstanding matter follows one examination route.
CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can concentrate on that action and prepare arguments suited to the assigned biotechnology and pharmaceutical 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1 | 53.1% | +20.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005490 | COMPLEX OXIDE CERAMIC, FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL, AND ARTICLE | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18005490 | COMPLEX OXIDE CERAMIC, FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL, AND ARTICLE | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNgk Spark Plug Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Audrea June Buckley Coniglio has the most, with 1 of Ngk Spark Plug Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
