Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nifco Korea Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's 2 pending office actions involve different technical aspects or classifications. By having the 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units, the company is engaging with different technical standards and examination groups within the patent office.
IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly divided. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that each pending matter is being evaluated within a different technical framework. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution of each application will likely require a unique strategy tailored to the specific examiner and the technical requirements of their respective art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 81.6% | -5.4% |
| FAULKNER, RYAN L | 1 | 67.7% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521136 | AIR VENT OF CAR | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 31d overdue |
| 18405471 | LOCKING MECHANISM FOR CONSOLE DEVICE AND VEHICULAR CONSOLE DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521136 | AIR VENT OF CAR | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18405471 | LOCKING MECHANISM FOR CONSOLE DEVICE AND VEHICULAR CONSOLE DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18521136 | AIR VENT OF CAR | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNifco Korea Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
James Edward Ignaczewski has the most, with 1 of Nifco Korea Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
