Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co. Ltd. is currently navigating the prosecution process in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 2 pending office actions. This workload is handled by 2 distinct examiners, providing the company with different points of contact within the patent office. The prosecution activity is also divided between 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the pending applications involve different technical classifications within the broader mechanical systems field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PAPE, JOSEPH, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner's role is balanced by another individual handling the remaining pending matter, as the total number of actions matches the number of distinct examiners. For practitioners, this distribution across examiners and art units indicates that there is no central point of examiner consistency for the current pending portfolio. Each matter must be approached as an independent technical and procedural challenge, as the 2 pending office actions are being evaluated in different environments by different individuals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAPE, JOSEPH | 1 | 88.3% | +3.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729537 | VEHICULAR COMPARTMENT SOUNDPROOFING STRUCTURE | PAPE, JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729537 | VEHICULAR COMPARTMENT SOUNDPROOFING STRUCTURE | PAPE, JOSEPH | 3612 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialNihon Tokushu Toryo Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph Pape has the most, with 1 of Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
