Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIDEC SANKYO Corporation is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of its current pending workload. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's current legal efforts at the patent office.
BARNES, MALCOLM is the busiest examiner for the company and is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the 1 pending office action in the company's profile. With 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate patenting goals are focused on a single point of review. Practitioners should recognize that the outcome of this specific action is the primary factor in the company's current status within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES, MALCOLM | 1 | 81.0% | +5.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974468 | OPTICAL UNIT HAVING SHAKE CORRECTION FUNCTION, WIRING MEMBER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING WIRING MEMBER | BARNES, MALCOLM | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17974468 | OPTICAL UNIT HAVING SHAKE CORRECTION FUNCTION, WIRING MEMBER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING WIRING MEMBER | BARNES, MALCOLM | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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