Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. Each of these 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, resulting in 4 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This distribution spans 3 distinct art units.
CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests a varied technical focus for the current company portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.9% | +17.4% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
| DEMETER, HILINA K | 1 | 72.1% | +18.8% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563661 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING HEAD-UP DISPLAY | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 4d overdue |
| 18953399 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
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 |
| 18867587 | DISPLAY DEVICE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | — |
| 18953399 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18847904 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | DEMETER, HILINA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867587 | DISPLAY DEVICE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18953399 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
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