Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nidec Precision Corporation focuses its patent efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions within the portfolio. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, which suggests a variety of examiner perspectives are being applied to the company's filings. All active matters are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the technology remains within a specific administrative silo at the USPTO. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the current applications.
The busiest examiner for Nidec Precision Corporation is MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently managing 1 action. This distribution means that no examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape for the company. The focus on 1 distinct art unit highlights a concentrated technical strategy within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Practitioners can expect a consistent application of art unit standards across the active matters despite the involvement of 3 different examiners.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 83.0% | +11.8% |
| JOHNSON, ERIC | 1 | 62.3% | +22.7% |
| GUGGER, SEAN A | 1 | 64.9% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103236 | CAMERA | MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740515 | VIBRATION MODULE | GUGGER, SEAN A | 19d |
| 18814591 | ROTARY ACTUATOR | JOHNSON, ERIC | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740515 | VIBRATION MODULE | GUGGER, SEAN A | 19d |
| 19103236 | CAMERA | MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18814591 | ROTARY ACTUATOR | JOHNSON, ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103236 | CAMERA | MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18814591 | ROTARY ACTUATOR | JOHNSON, ERIC | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18740515 | VIBRATION MODULE | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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