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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Piston Ring Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CUMAR, NATHAN, within 1 distinct art unit. CUMAR, NATHAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing the total pending workload for the company.
The prosecution profile is focused, with 1 pending office action being the only active case. The assignment to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means there is no diversity in the current examination of the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology. Practitioners have a single point of contact for the company's entire pending patent portfolio. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly targeted prosecution effort for the single pending office action. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner ensures that the prosecution strategy remains consistent and direct.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107245 | SLIDING MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND COATING FILM | CUMAR, NATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107245 | SLIDING MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND COATING FILM | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Piston Ring Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nathan Cumar has the most, with 1 of Nippon Piston Ring 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.
