Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sekonix Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is handled by 1 examiner in 1 art unit, creating a focused prosecution profile. With no distribution across additional examination channels in the available data, docket management can be organized around one file and one examiner’s treatment of the claims.
WHALEN, DANIEL B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. This assignment covers the full identified workload for the profile. Counsel should use the office action record and examiner-specific practice as the principal references for deciding whether to pursue amendment, argument, or a combination of both.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHALEN, DANIEL B | 1 | 80.3% | +15.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614456 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS | WHALEN, DANIEL B | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614456 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS | WHALEN, DANIEL B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614456 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS | WHALEN, DANIEL B | 2893 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSekonix Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Daniel B Whalen has the most, with 1 of Sekonix Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
