Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating the technical diversity in their ongoing patent applications. The presence of 5 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate a variety of individual examination styles rather than a concentrated group.
Among these professionals, SIPES, JOHN CURTIS is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he only handles 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner currently dominates the prosecution pipeline. Practitioners should prepare for a range of examiner feedback across the 4 distinct art units involved in these 5 pending office actions. The relationship of examiners to pending actions highlights the decentralized nature of the current workload for these 5 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 1 | 78.0% | +19.1% |
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.8% | +17.4% |
| DEMETER, HILINA K | 1 | 72.1% | +18.8% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | 1 | 56.5% | -18.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563661 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING HEAD-UP DISPLAY | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 4d overdue |
| 19065393 | VEHICLE PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| 17783403 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE | JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563661 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING HEAD-UP DISPLAY | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 4d overdue |
| 19065393 | VEHICLE PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| 18867587 | DISPLAY DEVICE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | — |
| 18847904 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | DEMETER, HILINA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065393 | VEHICLE PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18867587 | DISPLAY DEVICE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18847904 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | DEMETER, HILINA K | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18563661 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING HEAD-UP DISPLAY | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 17783403 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE | JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Seiki Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
John Curtis Sipes has the most, with 1 of Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
