Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Panduit Corp. has 12 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio is assigned to 12 examiners and 9 art units, so examiner coverage is fully dispersed even though several matters share technical groups.
BLADES, JOHN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner concentration suggests that prosecution analysis should focus on recurring art-unit themes and application-specific issues rather than on one dominant examiner relationship.
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 | 4 (33%) |
| §102 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLADES, JOHN A | 1 | 51.1% | +39.0% |
| ROSARIO, NELSON M | 1 | 86.1% | +6.2% |
| BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 1 | 78.2% | +17.2% |
| HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 1 | 86.0% | +11.2% |
| PAK, SUNG H | 1 | 87.8% | +11.4% |
| DO, ROWLAND | 1 | 70.0% | -5.3% |
| PATEL, PREET BAKUL | 1 | 12.5% | -16.7% |
| BLEVINS, JERRY M | 1 | 87.3% | +5.2% |
| NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 1 | 70.2% | +10.4% |
| LUEBKE, RENEE S | 1 | 42.1% | +10.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18591928 | Optical Interconnection Modules for High Radix Spine-Leaf Network Scale-Out | BLEVINS, JERRY M | 25d overdue |
| 19059581 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION MODULES FOR AI NETWORKS | ROSARIO, NELSON M | — |
| 18928489 | METHOD OF DETECTING A FAULT IN A PULSED POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
| 18818728 | MODULAR FIBER OPTIC TRAY | PAK, SUNG H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666308 | Fiber Optic Fusion Splice Connector and Splice Holder | PATEL, PREET BAKUL | — |
| 18371628 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE ABSENCE OF VOLTAGE | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| 17981776 | Cable Tie Handle | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19290485 | MEDIA FEED CONTROL FOR A LABEL APPLICATOR | BLADES, JOHN A | — |
| 18930327 | PROTECTIVE SLEEVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | — |
| 18928489 | METHOD OF DETECTING A FAULT IN A PULSED POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
| 18818728 | MODULAR FIBER OPTIC TRAY | PAK, SUNG H | — |
| 18371628 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE ABSENCE OF VOLTAGE | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| 18238789 | SINGLE PIECE CAT 6/6A PLUGS | LUEBKE, RENEE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 4 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19290485 | MEDIA FEED CONTROL FOR A LABEL APPLICATOR | BLADES, JOHN A | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19059581 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION MODULES FOR AI NETWORKS | ROSARIO, NELSON M | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18930327 | PROTECTIVE SLEEVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18928489 | METHOD OF DETECTING A FAULT IN A PULSED POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18818728 | MODULAR FIBER OPTIC TRAY | PAK, SUNG H | 2874 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18775045 | CABLE RESTRAINT FOR FLEXIBLE POWER CABLES | DO, ROWLAND | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18666308 | Fiber Optic Fusion Splice Connector and Splice Holder | PATEL, PREET BAKUL | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18591928 | Optical Interconnection Modules for High Radix Spine-Leaf Network Scale-Out | BLEVINS, JERRY M | 2874 | §112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18371628 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE ABSENCE OF VOLTAGE | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 2857 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18238789 | SINGLE PIECE CAT 6/6A PLUGS | LUEBKE, RENEE S | 2831 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18106136 | Ultra-Wideband Low Latency Multicore to Multicore Free-Space Optical Communications Using Parabolic Mirrors | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17981776 | Cable Tie Handle | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPanduit Corp. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 12 examiners.
John A Blades has the most, with 1 of Panduit Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.