Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Okuma Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters are assigned to 5 examiners and 5 art units, indicating a one-to-one distribution across the identified examination resources.
CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a recurring assignment in the provided profile, so counsel should organize prosecution by application and art unit rather than by a dominant examiner relationship.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | 1 | 72.8% | +26.1% |
| BUTLER, KEVIN C | 1 | 89.3% | +9.1% |
| YOON, ERIC | 1 | 58.7% | +65.9% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908899 | VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION SYSTEM IN MACHINE TOOL, MACHINE TOOL, AND VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION METHOD | BUTLER, KEVIN C | — |
| 18804208 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE | YOON, ERIC | — |
| 18644302 | JOINED BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919637 | PLACEMENT IDENTIFYING APPARATUS | CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | — |
| 18804208 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE | YOON, ERIC | — |
| 18663216 | TAP MACHINING METHOD AND TAP MACHINING APPARATUS | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| 18644302 | JOINED BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18602142 | CUTTING FLUID CIRCULATION DEVICE | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919637 | PLACEMENT IDENTIFYING APPARATUS | CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | 2119 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18908899 | VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION SYSTEM IN MACHINE TOOL, MACHINE TOOL, AND VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION METHOD | BUTLER, KEVIN C | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18804208 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE | YOON, ERIC | 2118 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18663216 | TAP MACHINING METHOD AND TAP MACHINING APPARATUS | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18644302 | JOINED BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18602142 | CUTTING FLUID CIRCULATION DEVICE | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOkuma Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Vincent Wen-Liang Chang has the most, with 1 of Okuma Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
