Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. maintains a significant presence in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 13 pending office actions, which are being reviewed by 10 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that some examiners are handling multiple applications, while the overall workload remains spread across a relatively large group of officials.
The prosecution activity is further distributed across 7 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical subject matter within the portfolio. SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 3 busiest examiner pending actions. With 13 pending office actions in total, the concentration of work with this busiest examiner represents a notable portion of the company's current interactions. However, because the company utilizes 10 distinct examiners, a large portion of the pending workload is still subject to a variety of different examiner viewpoints.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 3 (23%) |
| §102 only | 3 (23%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3 | 55.1% | +15.8% |
| SANDERS, HOWARD J | 2 | 81.1% | +7.9% |
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.0% | +30.3% |
| KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.0% | +20.0% |
| KIM, JAY C | 1 | 49.3% | +21.6% |
| SMITH, BRADLEY | 1 | 79.9% | -2.9% |
| CHEN, DAVID Z | 1 | 44.7% | +50.1% |
| CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 1 | 74.0% | +26.5% |
| ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 1 | 83.2% | +32.9% |
| BELL, LAUREN R | 1 | 40.3% | +32.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879130 | MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 15d |
| 18995066 | MEDIUM STORAGE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE | SANDERS, HOWARD J | — |
| 18179014 | PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM JOINT SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758974 | LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER AND VIBRATION MEASUREMENT METHOD | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18579810 | MEDIUM HANDLING DEVICE, MEDIUM HANDLING PROGRAM, AND MEDIUM RECOGNITION REFERENCE INFORMATION CREATION SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18566920 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18566513 | MEDIUM HANDLING DEVICE | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18446643 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER SUPPORT STRUCTURE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | KIM, JAY C | — |
| 18181093 | PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM JOINT SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18320618 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LED DISPLAY DEVICE | CHEN, DAVID Z | 27d |
| 18865510 | SWITCHING GATE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE | MORRISON, THOMAS A | — |
| 18758974 | LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER AND VIBRATION MEASUREMENT METHOD | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18579810 | MEDIUM HANDLING DEVICE, MEDIUM HANDLING PROGRAM, AND MEDIUM RECOGNITION REFERENCE INFORMATION CREATION SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18566920 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18566513 | MEDIUM HANDLING DEVICE | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18446643 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER SUPPORT STRUCTURE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | KIM, JAY C | — |
| 18181093 | PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM JOINT SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 3 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 2815 | 2 |
| 3729 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995066 | MEDIUM STORAGE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18879130 | MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 3653 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18865510 | SWITCHING GATE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18758974 | LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER AND VIBRATION MEASUREMENT METHOD | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18579810 | MEDIUM HANDLING DEVICE, MEDIUM HANDLING PROGRAM, AND MEDIUM RECOGNITION REFERENCE INFORMATION CREATION SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18566920 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18566513 | MEDIUM HANDLING DEVICE | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18446643 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER SUPPORT STRUCTURE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18446271 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER SUPPORT STRUCTURE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | SMITH, BRADLEY | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18320618 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LED DISPLAY DEVICE | CHEN, DAVID Z | 2815 | §102 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18181093 | PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM JOINT SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 3729 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18179014 | PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM JOINT SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 3729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17979984 | ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPLEX FILM | BELL, LAUREN R | 2896 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
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