Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
THK Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 6 examiners across 5 art units, showing broad examiner distribution and a smaller amount of art-unit concentration.
PILKINGTON, JAMES is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The profile favors individualized examiner preparation, with a parallel portfolio review to identify consistent positions on mechanical components and system relationships across the art-unit assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
| STERLING, AMY JO | 1 | 76.7% | +10.5% |
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.6% | +41.0% |
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.2% | +19.4% |
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 1 | 71.4% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708670 | MONITORING SYSTEM THAT MONITORS MOTION GUIDING DEVICE | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 6d |
| 18855491 | MOUNTING HOLE CAP AND MOTION GUIDE APPARATUS | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| 18841555 | JIG FOR ASSISTING ATTACHMENT OF RAIL COVER | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | — |
| 18837390 | ACTUATOR AND MAGNETIC POLE POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718615 | FEED MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | COOK, KYLE A | 161d overdue |
| 18708670 | MONITORING SYSTEM THAT MONITORS MOTION GUIDING DEVICE | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 6d |
| 18881493 | MOTION GUIDE APPARATUS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 18855491 | MOUNTING HOLE CAP AND MOTION GUIDE APPARATUS | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| 18841555 | JIG FOR ASSISTING ATTACHMENT OF RAIL COVER | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | — |
| 18837390 | ACTUATOR AND MAGNETIC POLE POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 2 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881493 | MOTION GUIDE APPARATUS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18855491 | MOUNTING HOLE CAP AND MOTION GUIDE APPARATUS | STERLING, AMY JO | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18841555 | JIG FOR ASSISTING ATTACHMENT OF RAIL COVER | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18837390 | ACTUATOR AND MAGNETIC POLE POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18718615 | FEED MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 161d overdue | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18708670 | MONITORING SYSTEM THAT MONITORS MOTION GUIDING DEVICE | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTHK Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
James Pilkington has the most, with 1 of THK Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
