Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Steel Texeng Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so prosecution is spread across separate examination assignments.
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution supports reviewing each action on its own record rather than treating the portfolio as a single examiner relationship.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.7% | +39.6% |
| PATEL, MIRAJ T | 1 | 83.8% | +21.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836669 | OVERHEAD CRANE MONITORING SYSTEM | PATEL, MIRAJ T | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023109 | FIRE EXTINGUISHING DEVICE, CHARGE/DISCHARGE INSPECTION DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND FIRE EXTINGUISHING METHOD | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 18836669 | OVERHEAD CRANE MONITORING SYSTEM | PATEL, MIRAJ T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19023109 | FIRE EXTINGUISHING DEVICE, CHARGE/DISCHARGE INSPECTION DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND FIRE EXTINGUISHING METHOD | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18836669 | OVERHEAD CRANE MONITORING SYSTEM | PATEL, MIRAJ T | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Steel Texeng Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kevin Edward Schwartz has the most, with 1 of Nippon Steel Texeng Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
