Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

NOK Corporation

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

25 pending office actions • 12 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

11
Hard (44%)
13
Medium (52%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (36%)
§102 only4 (16%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (44%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
28% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
44% of docket
7
Business / Other
28% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FOSTER, NICHOLAS L 2 75.4% +24.8%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 2 44.4% +52.7%
WIBLIN, MATTHEW 1 74.7% +23.4%
CUMAR, NATHAN 1 78.8% +14.4%
BYRD, EUGENE G 1 70.0% +9.4%
NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN 1 78.8% +16.8%
SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE 1 74.6% +17.6%
MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D 1 67.6% -10.3%
SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.5% +6.2%
GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD 1 72.2% +18.6%

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
18898493 CUSHIONING SHEET SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P —

Hard Cases (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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 —
19111584 HUB SEAL NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN —
19111482 ELECTRODE MEMBER AND BIOELECTRIC SIGNAL MEASURING ELECTRODE SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE —
18715023 ANTI-VIBRATION RUBBER COMPOSITION, ANTI-VIBRATION MOUNT AND ANTI-VIBRATION GROMMET BHUSHAN, KUMAR R —
18702746 CONTAINER, MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE, AND DIAPHRAGM PUMP THOMPSON, CURTIS A —

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18014945 FLUORORUBBER COMPOSITION BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 19d
18270949 FLUORORUBBER COMPOSITION AND SEALING MATERIAL BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 60d
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 —
19111584 HUB SEAL NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN —
19111482 ELECTRODE MEMBER AND BIOELECTRIC SIGNAL MEASURING ELECTRODE SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3675 5
1762 3
3745 1
3617 1
3632 1
1748 1
3654 1
3678 1
3781 1
1727 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
19111584 HUB SEAL NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN 3617 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2025
19111482 ELECTRODE MEMBER AND BIOELECTRIC SIGNAL MEASURING ELECTRODE SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 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 — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18728296 LAMINATE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD 1748 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 11, 2024
18715023 ANTI-VIBRATION RUBBER COMPOSITION, ANTI-VIBRATION MOUNT AND ANTI-VIBRATION GROMMET BHUSHAN, KUMAR R — §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 — §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 — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 15, 2024
18690565 FLUORORUBBER COMPOSITION LING, DORIS — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 08, 2024
18689701 PRESSURE-REGULATING VALVE FOR POWER STORAGE MODULE AND POWER STORAGE UNIT WHITE, SADIE — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 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 1727 §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
18014945 FLUORORUBBER COMPOSITION BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103Other Final Rejection 19d Pending Jan 06, 2023
17782787 RUBBER COMPOSITION AND VULCANIZED MOLDED ARTICLE EASHOO, MARK 1767 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 06, 2022
17433746 SEALING DEVICE PATEL, VISHAL A 3675 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 25, 2021

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