Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, so examiner assignments are fully distinct while one art unit handles more than one matter.
SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile does not show examiner concentration. The shared art-unit assignment is the more relevant coordination point for comparing claim treatment and response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 1 | 89.0% | +5.7% |
| SMITH, DAVID E | 1 | 85.3% | +6.9% |
| VANORE, DAVID A | 1 | 88.8% | +7.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197199 | VAPORIZER, METHOD, AND ION SOURCE INCLUDING VAPORIZER | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948063 | VAPORIZER, ION SOURCE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ALUMINUM-CONTAINING VAPOR | SMITH, DAVID E | — |
| 18612254 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | VANORE, DAVID A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19197199 | VAPORIZER, METHOD, AND ION SOURCE INCLUDING VAPORIZER | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 2845 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 18948063 | VAPORIZER, ION SOURCE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ALUMINUM-CONTAINING VAPOR | SMITH, DAVID E | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18612254 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | VANORE, DAVID A | 2878 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Srinivas Sathiraju has the most, with 1 of Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
