Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nihon Micron Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners across 2 art units, indicating that examiner distribution is broader than the art-unit distribution.
RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J is associated with 2 pending matters. The concentrated art-unit structure may support reusable technical and claim arguments, while examiner differences still require tailored responses.
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 2 | 87.3% | +8.6% |
| FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | 2 | 84.4% | +16.7% |
| AURORA, REENA | 1 | 87.1% | -13.3% |
| MILLER, DANIEL R | 1 | 82.6% | +20.8% |
| HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | 1 | 86.3% | -15.3% |
| HARRISON, MICHAEL A | 1 | 89.0% | +2.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059116 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | AURORA, REENA | — |
| 18996441 | PROBE APPARATUS | FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | — |
| 18817786 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING APPARATUS | HARRISON, MICHAEL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19110374 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | — |
| 19059123 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | MILLER, DANIEL R | — |
| 19052235 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | — |
| 18992880 | PROBE APPARATUS | FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | — |
| 18719782 | PROBE CARD AND INSPECTION SYSTEM | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059123 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | MILLER, DANIEL R | — |
| 18996441 | PROBE APPARATUS | FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | — |
| 18992880 | PROBE APPARATUS | FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 7 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19110374 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19059116 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | AURORA, REENA | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19059123 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | MILLER, DANIEL R | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19052235 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS | HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18996441 | PROBE APPARATUS | FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | 2858 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18992880 | PROBE APPARATUS | FERDOUS, ZANNATUL | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18719782 | PROBE CARD AND INSPECTION SYSTEM | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18817786 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING APPARATUS | HARRISON, MICHAEL A | 2852 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNihon Micron Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Raul J Rios Russo has the most, with 2 of Nihon Micron Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
