Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tianma Japan, Ltd.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, SUN U 1 78.5% +11.1%
SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON 1 35.3% +38.1%
TRAN, DZUNG 1 83.2% +5.2%
SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 1 69.0% +10.4%
HUANG, MICKEY NMN 1 61.5% +50.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18322293 IMAGE SENSOR TRAN, DZUNG 50d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17503648 MICRODEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MICRODEVICE, AND IMMUNOASSAY METHOD HUANG, MICKEY NMN 12d
18336557 SUBSTANCE SEPARATING DEVICE, ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND ANALYSIS METHOD KIM, SUN U 15d
18327118 CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION KIT AND CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION METHOD SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON 27d
18312132 LIGHT BEAM DIRECTION CONTROL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT BEAM DIRECTION CONTROL ELEMENT SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1777 1
1678 1
2893 1
2872 1
1758 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18336557 SUBSTANCE SEPARATING DEVICE, ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND ANALYSIS METHOD KIM, SUN U 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18327118 CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION KIT AND CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION METHOD SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18322293 IMAGE SENSOR TRAN, DZUNG 2893 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending May 23, 2023
18312132 LIGHT BEAM DIRECTION CONTROL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT BEAM DIRECTION CONTROL ELEMENT SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 04, 2023
17503648 MICRODEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MICRODEVICE, AND IMMUNOASSAY METHOD HUANG, MICKEY NMN 1758 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Oct 18, 2021

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