Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
27 pending office actions • 18 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
NOK Corporation has 26 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters span 24 examiners and 17 art units, showing broad allocation across technical organizations with only limited examiner concentration.
FOSTER, NICHOLAS L is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should use examiner-specific insight for that small cluster while managing the wider docket through art-unit tracking and application-level prosecution plans.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 9 (33%) |
| §102 only | 4 (15%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (48%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 2 | 75.5% | +24.6% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 2 | 59.1% | +22.6% |
| WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.7% | +23.5% |
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.1% | +8.9% |
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 1 | 74.9% | +17.8% |
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 1 | 78.8% | +16.8% |
| AVERICK, LAWRENCE | 1 | 75.8% | +23.8% |
| KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 1 | 33.3% | +7.3% |
| MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 1 | 67.7% | -10.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19351852 | SEALING MEMBER AND SEALING STRUCTURE | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | — |
| 19166272 | SEALING STRUCTURE | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| 19151844 | GASKET | BYRD, EUGENE G | — |
| 19140759 | SEALING DEVICE | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| 19111482 | ELECTRODE MEMBER AND BIOELECTRIC SIGNAL MEASURING ELECTRODE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — |
| 19111584 | HUB SEAL | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | — |
| 18994935 | BIOELECTRODE | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | — |
| 18730189 | PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE | DIAMOND, BRIAN GWYN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17433746 | SEALING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 14d |
| 19351852 | SEALING MEMBER AND SEALING STRUCTURE | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | — |
| 19166272 | SEALING STRUCTURE | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| 19153745 | GASKET AND SEALING STRUCTURE | CUMAR, NATHAN | — |
| 19140759 | SEALING DEVICE | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| 19118220 | VALVE STEM SEAL SEALING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| 19111482 | ELECTRODE MEMBER AND BIOELECTRIC SIGNAL MEASURING ELECTRODE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — |
| 19111584 | HUB SEAL | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 6 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3753 | 2 |
| 1762 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19351852 | SEALING MEMBER AND SEALING STRUCTURE | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19166272 | SEALING STRUCTURE | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19153745 | GASKET AND SEALING STRUCTURE | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19151844 | GASKET | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19140759 | SEALING DEVICE | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3675 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19118220 | VALVE STEM SEAL SEALING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19111482 | ELECTRODE MEMBER AND BIOELECTRIC SIGNAL MEASURING ELECTRODE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19111584 | HUB SEAL | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19111009 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HUB SEAL | AVERICK, LAWRENCE | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18994935 | BIOELECTRODE | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18917704 | CUSHIONING RUBBER, REACTION FORCE ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF, AND PEDESTAL | MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 3632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18898493 | CUSHIONING SHEET | SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18577492 | FUEL CELL COMPOSITE SHEET AND FUEL CELL COMPOSITE SHEET PRODUCTION METHOD | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1727 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18730189 | PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE | DIAMOND, BRIAN GWYN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18715023 | ANTI-VIBRATION RUBBER COMPOSITION, ANTI-VIBRATION MOUNT AND ANTI-VIBRATION GROMMET | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18704422 | TORSIONAL DAMPER | BUSE, MARK KENNETH | 3654 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18702746 | CONTAINER, MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE, AND DIAPHRAGM PUMP | THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18697659 | BALL JOINT SEAL STRUCTURE AND FERRULE RING MOUNTING METHOD | HALL, ZACHARY A | 3678 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18692642 | PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT VALVE FOR POWER STORAGE MODULE | COLON MORALES, DAVID | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18690565 | FLUORORUBBER COMPOSITION | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18563658 | DIAPER SENSOR, DISPOSABLE DIAPER, AND DISPOSABLE DIAPER KIT | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18284672 | PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18284507 | HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE MODULE AND DEHUMIDIFICATION AND HUMIDIFICATION DEVICE | SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE | 1776 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18270949 | FLUORORUBBER COMPOSITION AND SEALING MATERIAL | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18023853 | ETHYLENE/PROPYLENE-BASED COPOLYMER RUBBER COMPOSITION | SASTRI, SATYA B | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17632030 | GASKET MANUFACTURING METHOD | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Feb 01, 2022 |
| 17433746 | SEALING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialNOK Corporation has 27 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 18 art units and 25 examiners.
Nicholas L Foster has the most, with 2 of NOK Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
