Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIPPON CHEMI-CON Corporation has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket spans 6 examiners and 5 art units, reflecting broad examiner distribution with some concentration at the art-unit level.
SINCLAIR, DAVID M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger recorded assignment, so prosecution management should emphasize cross-matter issue tracking rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship.
The difference between examiner and art-unit breadth suggests that related matters may share some technical examination context even when handled by different examiners. Counsel can use that context to compare claim construction and prior-art treatment, while preserving matter-specific arguments.
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 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, ERIC W | 1 | 82.7% | -1.9% |
| SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 1 | 68.4% | +19.7% |
| TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 1 | 86.2% | +4.6% |
| VO, JIMMY | 1 | 73.5% | +21.7% |
| TERRELL, EMILY C | 1 | 58.6% | +36.0% |
| RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881426 | ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR | TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | — |
| 18730559 | SENSOR MODULE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND SENSOR SYSTEM | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | — |
| 17916361 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111479 | SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND PRODUCTION METHOD | THOMAS, ERIC W | — |
| 18681050 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE | VO, JIMMY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19051873 | ELECTRODE BODY, ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR PROVIDED WITH ELECTRODE BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE BODY | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | — |
| 18681050 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE | VO, JIMMY | — |
| 18244522 | DETECTION SYSTEM, DETECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DETECTION MODULE | TERRELL, EMILY C | — |
| 17916361 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2848 | 3 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111479 | SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND PRODUCTION METHOD | THOMAS, ERIC W | 2848 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19051873 | ELECTRODE BODY, ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR PROVIDED WITH ELECTRODE BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE BODY | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 2848 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18881426 | ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR | TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18730559 | SENSOR MODULE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND SENSOR SYSTEM | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 2878 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18681050 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE | VO, JIMMY | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2024 |
| 18244522 | DETECTION SYSTEM, DETECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DETECTION MODULE | TERRELL, EMILY C | 2666 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 17916361 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 2848 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNIPPON CHEMI-CON Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Eric W Thomas has the most, with 1 of NIPPON CHEMI-CON Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
