Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is currently highly focused, involving only 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This singular point of contact simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio and suggests that the company's active intellectual property is concentrated in a specific technical niche. The use of a single art unit indicates that the subject matter is being evaluated against a consistent set of departmental standards.

Examiner DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. Because this official holds the entirety of the pending workload, the outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on this specific individual's interpretation of the art unit's guidelines. Practitioners should focus on the specific historical tendencies of this examiner to navigate the active case. This centralized prosecution environment allows for a direct and focused dialogue with the patent office, as there are no other active examiners to coordinate with for the 1 pending office action.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 1 0.0% +0.0%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18726553 Navigation Aiding Method and Apparatus DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 91d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3663 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18726553 Navigation Aiding Method and Apparatus DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2024

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