Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nipro Corporation

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
§102 only2 (18%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
27% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
73% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YABUT, DIANE D 1 62.3% +27.9%
ZHOU, QINGZHANG 1 67.5% +24.4%
PEO, JONATHAN M 1 48.5% +48.3%
FARAH, AHMED M 1 78.7% +19.0%
ZHANG, TINA 1 55.8% +47.3%
WEARE, MEREDITH H 1 50.4% +32.0%
WIEST, PHILIP R 1 81.4% +16.5%
NGUYEN, HUONG Q 1 45.6% +44.3%
RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1 51.8% +63.5%
FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B 1 75.6% +30.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17926307 METHOD OF MONITORING BLOOD CIRCULATION, DIALYSIS DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WIEST, PHILIP R 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17921686 GUIDE WIRE NGUYEN, HUONG Q 44d overdue
18272222 SPRAYER ZHANG, TINA 16d overdue
17926307 METHOD OF MONITORING BLOOD CIRCULATION, DIALYSIS DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WIEST, PHILIP R 9d overdue
18562529 LIQUID STORAGE RESERVOIR PEO, JONATHAN M 8d overdue
18020474 Guide Wire and Method for Manufacturing Living Body Sensor WEARE, MEREDITH H 5d overdue
17789314 Method for Producing Serum for Culturing Mammalian Cells RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 5d overdue
17615478 DOUBLE-LUMEN CATHETER FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B 2d overdue
18867497 THROMBUS SUCTION CATHETER YABUT, DIANE D 5d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 2
3771 1
3752 1
1779 1
3792 1
3785 1
3781 1
1634 1
3783 1
1632 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18867497 THROMBUS SUCTION CATHETER YABUT, DIANE D 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18682898 HYPOCHLOROUS ACID WATER SPRAY DEVICE ZHOU, QINGZHANG 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Feb 10, 2024
18562529 LIQUID STORAGE RESERVOIR PEO, JONATHAN M 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18556574 ABLATION CATHETER FARAH, AHMED M 3792 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18272222 SPRAYER ZHANG, TINA 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18020474 Guide Wire and Method for Manufacturing Living Body Sensor WEARE, MEREDITH H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2023
17926307 METHOD OF MONITORING BLOOD CIRCULATION, DIALYSIS DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WIEST, PHILIP R 3781 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
17921686 GUIDE WIRE NGUYEN, HUONG Q 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2022
17789314 Method for Producing Serum for Culturing Mammalian Cells RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2022
17615478 DOUBLE-LUMEN CATHETER FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2021
17429215 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING IN-STENT RESTENOSIS REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 06, 2021

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