Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

SMC Corporation

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

1
Hard (14%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARK, HYUN D 1 41.1% +23.0%
RUBY, TRAVIS C 1 53.1% +28.3%
SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM 1 62.2% +37.2%
GANNON, LEVI 1 82.6% +6.8%
SHAIKH, MERAJ A 1 57.6% +22.9%
SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
CHIN, PAUL T 1 71.6% +15.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18049062 FULCRUM OPENING/CLOSING TYPE AIR CHUCK SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 26d overdue
18174780 SAFETY MODULE AND MODULE COUPLING BODY GANNON, LEVI 14d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18502141 POSITION CALCULATION DEVICE PARK, HYUN D 19d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18342317 TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM 81d overdue
18555298 TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE RUBY, TRAVIS C 26d overdue
18502141 POSITION CALCULATION DEVICE PARK, HYUN D 19d
17930763 LIFT DEVICE CHIN, PAUL T 29d
18006045 CHILLER SHAIKH, MERAJ A 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3763 2
3654 2
2857 1
2116 1
2849 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18502141 POSITION CALCULATION DEVICE PARK, HYUN D 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 06, 2023
18555298 TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE RUBY, TRAVIS C 3763 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18342317 TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18174780 SAFETY MODULE AND MODULE COUPLING BODY GANNON, LEVI 2849 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18006045 CHILLER SHAIKH, MERAJ A 3763 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 19, 2023
18049062 FULCRUM OPENING/CLOSING TYPE AIR CHUCK SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17930763 LIFT DEVICE CHIN, PAUL T 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 09, 2022

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