Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Corporation is active in the Communications technology area, with 1 pending office action currently on record. This single action represents the company's active prosecution workload. The matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical niche within the communications field.
The examination process involves 1 distinct examiner, THOMAS, MIA M. As the busiest examiner for the company, THOMAS, MIA M is managing 1 pending office action. This means that the company's current patent activity is concentrated under the review of this examiner, whose feedback will be critical to the 1 pending office action.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution landscape is very focused. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further defines the technical scope of the current interaction. THOMAS, MIA M's management of the 1 pending office action is the central element of the company's current patent office activity in the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, MIA M | 1 | 86.2% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762954 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM, SUBJECT SURFACE IMAGE COMPOSITION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUBJECT SURFACE IMAGE COMPOSITION PROGRAM | THOMAS, MIA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762954 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM, SUBJECT SURFACE IMAGE COMPOSITION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUBJECT SURFACE IMAGE COMPOSITION PROGRAM | THOMAS, MIA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18762954 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM, SUBJECT SURFACE IMAGE COMPOSITION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUBJECT SURFACE IMAGE COMPOSITION PROGRAM | THOMAS, MIA M | 2665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialToshiba Information Systems (Japan) Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mia M Thomas has the most, with 1 of Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
