Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nidek Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 9 examiners across 5 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution and recurring technical-group placement.
BROOME, SHARRIEF I is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The lack of examiner concentration means that portfolio management should focus on consistent technical and claim themes across art units, while preserving matter-specific responses to individual examination positions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 1 | 81.5% | +4.5% |
| CATO, MIYA J | 1 | 76.8% | +12.5% |
| LYONS, MICHAEL A | 1 | 86.5% | +9.9% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 66.7% | +43.8% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.5% | +22.5% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 54.3% | +20.7% |
| SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 1 | 79.5% | +13.1% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612730 | EYEGLASSES LENS PROCESSING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460111 | OCT DEVICE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 16d overdue |
| 19105871 | SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY PROGRAM | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | — |
| 18970913 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | CATO, MIYA J | — |
| 17915356 | OPTOMETRY SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460111 | OCT DEVICE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 16d overdue |
| 18345423 | OCT APPARATUS | NIGAM, NATASHA | 13d |
| 18477067 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 69d |
| 18970913 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | CATO, MIYA J | — |
| 17994611 | EYE EXAMINATION DEVICE, ATTACHMENT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | — |
| 17915356 | OPTOMETRY SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 5 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105871 | SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY PROGRAM | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18970913 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | CATO, MIYA J | 2681 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18612730 | EYEGLASSES LENS PROCESSING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18477067 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18460111 | OCT DEVICE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18345423 | OCT APPARATUS | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17994611 | EYE EXAMINATION DEVICE, ATTACHMENT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17915356 | OPTOMETRY SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNidek Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 8 examiners.
Sharrief I Broome has the most, with 1 of Nidek Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
