Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 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 is currently managing 1 pending office action at the patent office. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, who is identified as WALTERS JR, ROBERT S. The portfolio currently shows 0 distinct art units, which suggests that the technical classification for this pending matter is either highly specialized or is still being processed within the patent office's administrative systems.
The busiest examiner for the company is WALTERS JR, ROBERT S, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. As the only examiner involved in the company's pending affairs, this individual has a significant influence over the immediate direction of the company's intellectual property strategy. Practitioners should prioritize a clear and direct line of communication with the assigned examiner to resolve the current matter effectively.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner reflects a very focused and centralized prosecution profile. Without the involvement of multiple examiners or any recorded art units, the company's current efforts are concentrated on a single point of review. Future activity may see the company expand into various art units, but for now, the focus remains entirely on the interaction with WALTERS JR, ROBERT S regarding the 1 pending office action.
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 | 51.5% | +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 | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18883368 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
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