Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nsk Steering & Control Inc. has 1 pending office action currently active in its patent portfolio. This workload is distributed across a distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort. The absence of multiple pending matters limits the current breadth of interaction with the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is PAUL, ANTONY M, who oversees 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the pending action, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes depend on this relationship. This focus allows for a targeted strategy regarding this specific examiner's requirements.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAUL, ANTONY M | 1 | 89.7% | +9.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844493 | CURRENT CONTROL DEVICE, MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE | PAUL, ANTONY M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844493 | CURRENT CONTROL DEVICE, MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE | PAUL, ANTONY M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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