Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nidec Copal Electronics Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very narrow and focused prosecution presence at the patent office. The company's current legal efforts are concentrated on a single application, allowing for a highly targeted strategy. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific procedural requirements of a single art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WALTERS JR, ROBERT S, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This single examiner manages the entirety of the company's active workload. For practitioners, this means the success of the current prosecution phase depends on navigating the specific requirements of this one examiner and their associated art unit. The 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners ensures that the examiner is not burdened by multiple filings from the same company, which may lead to a more direct dialogue during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.6% | +50.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18883368 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18883368 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNidec Copal Electronics Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert S Walters Jr. has the most, with 1 of Nidec Copal Electronics Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
