Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corporation currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct examiners, indicating a fragmented examination process where each examiner handles a single pending matter. Such a distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy must account for multiple individual examiner behaviors rather than finding patterns across a larger group. This lack of examiner overlap means that successful arguments in a case are less likely to provide direct leverage in others.
The prosecution activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units. This concentration in a small number of art units implies that while the examiners are varied, the technical subject matter remains focused. HASAN, MOHAMMED A serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this means that even the most active examiner does not hold a significant portion of the total pending workload. The strategy for this portfolio should focus on the specific technical standards of these 2 art units while preparing for the unique procedural preferences of each assigned examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 1 | 90.3% | +5.1% |
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 1 | 46.6% | +20.8% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| NGUYEN, DUNG T | 1 | 82.2% | +0.9% |
| WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 1 | 81.4% | +8.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623046 | LENS UNIT | NGUYEN, DUNG T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623052 | LENS UNIT | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 43d overdue |
| 18875155 | LENS UNIT | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — |
| 18826132 | OPTICAL UNIT | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857815 | OPTICAL MEMBER AND LENS UNIT | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18826132 | OPTICAL UNIT | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875155 | LENS UNIT | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2024 |
| 18857815 | OPTICAL MEMBER AND LENS UNIT | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18826132 | OPTICAL UNIT | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18623046 | LENS UNIT | NGUYEN, DUNG T | 2871 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18623052 | LENS UNIT | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Mohammed A Hasan has the most, with 1 of NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
