Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nivarox-FAR S.A. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners but are assigned within 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner variation inside a common technical setting.
COLLINS, JASON M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A shared art-unit context may support consistent technical framing, while the separate examiner records still call for individualized responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, JASON M | 1 | 75.0% | +12.9% |
| JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 1 | 90.7% | +1.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497545 | WINDING DEVICE, PARTICULARLY OF A HOROLOGICAL BARREL, FITTED WITH A DISCONNECTABLE RATCHET | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701650 | BALANCE FOR A HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701650 | BALANCE FOR A HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701650 | BALANCE FOR A HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT | COLLINS, JASON M | 2831 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18497545 | WINDING DEVICE, PARTICULARLY OF A HOROLOGICAL BARREL, FITTED WITH A DISCONNECTABLE RATCHET | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNivarox-FAR S.A. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Jason M Collins has the most, with 1 of Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
