Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pioneer Corporation

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

2
Hard (20%)
8
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (20%)
§103 only6 (60%)
§102 only2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
2
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PENG, HUAWEN A 1 82.3% +20.2%
LOUIE, WAE LENNY 1 84.8% +8.4%
PATEL, DIPEN M 1 20.5% +24.8%
LE, THUYKHANH 1 78.1% +36.8%
WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 1 21.4% +91.7%
THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 1 18.2% +50.0%
SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID 1 83.3% +16.8%
PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 1 18.6% +28.6%
PHUNG, LUAT 1 76.0% +12.4%
SHARMA, SHIVAM 1 41.5% +5.3%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18887737 SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM LOUIE, WAE LENNY 44d overdue
19176016 SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PENG, HUAWEN A 10d overdue
18689043 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID 14d

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18691736 AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 124d overdue
18841623 DEVICE METHOD AND PROGRAM ON A RECORDING MEDIUM THAT PROVIDE LOCATION BASED CONTENT BASED ON VEHICLE'S POSITION PATEL, DIPEN M 53d overdue
18261035 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 43d overdue
18838039 Information processing apparatus, Information processing method, Program and Recording medium LE, THUYKHANH 10d overdue
18689037 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18691736 AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 124d overdue
18841623 DEVICE METHOD AND PROGRAM ON A RECORDING MEDIUM THAT PROVIDE LOCATION BASED CONTENT BASED ON VEHICLE'S POSITION PATEL, DIPEN M 53d overdue
18261035 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 43d overdue
19176016 SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PENG, HUAWEN A 10d overdue
18838039 Information processing apparatus, Information processing method, Program and Recording medium LE, THUYKHANH 10d overdue
18689037 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 9d overdue
18689043 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID 14d
18038376 COMMUNICATION CONTROL TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM PHUNG, LUAT 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3665 2
2169 1
3661 1
3621 1
2655 1
3667 1
2645 1
3624 1
2468 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19176016 SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PENG, HUAWEN A 2169 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2025
18887737 SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM LOUIE, WAE LENNY 3661 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Sep 17, 2024
18841623 DEVICE METHOD AND PROGRAM ON A RECORDING MEDIUM THAT PROVIDE LOCATION BASED CONTENT BASED ON VEHICLE'S POSITION PATEL, DIPEN M 3621 §101 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2024
18838039 Information processing apparatus, Information processing method, Program and Recording medium LE, THUYKHANH 2655 §101 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18691736 AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18689037 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18689043 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 04, 2024
18261035 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18038376 COMMUNICATION CONTROL TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM PHUNG, LUAT 2468 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 23, 2023
18252114 INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE SHARMA, SHIVAM 3665 §103 Final Rejection 117d overdue Pending May 08, 2023

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