Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nico Corporation

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
§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
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
67% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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
CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK 1 84.4% +22.5%
WILKES, ZACHARY W 1 66.4% +22.1%
DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 1 75.1% +14.6%

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
18621609 TEST IMAGE SET FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, TEST METHOD FOR VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, DETERMINING METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF CORRECTION FILTER, AND CORRECTION FILTER CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK 20d

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
17538564 TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE DELIVERY SLEEVE FOR NEUROSURGICAL AND SPINAL SURGERY APPLICATIONS DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 8d overdue
18621609 TEST IMAGE SET FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, TEST METHOD FOR VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, DETERMINING METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF CORRECTION FILTER, AND CORRECTION FILTER CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK 20d
17892988 METHOD FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL FILTER, OPTICAL FILTER, OPTICAL ELEMENT SET FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TEST IMAGE FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS WILKES, ZACHARY W 54d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 2
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18621609 TEST IMAGE SET FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, TEST METHOD FOR VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, DETERMINING METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF CORRECTION FILTER, AND CORRECTION FILTER CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Mar 29, 2024
17892988 METHOD FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS, METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL FILTER, OPTICAL FILTER, OPTICAL ELEMENT SET FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TEST IMAGE FOR TESTING VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS WILKES, ZACHARY W 2872 §102 Final Rejection 54d Pending Aug 22, 2022
17538564 TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE DELIVERY SLEEVE FOR NEUROSURGICAL AND SPINAL SURGERY APPLICATIONS DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 3791 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2021

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