Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nakanishi Ip Associates, LLC

14 pending office actions • 13 clients • 14 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

1
Hard (7%)
13
Medium (93%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only10 (71%)
§102 only3 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
21% of docket
3
Information Tech
21% of docket
2
Communications
14% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
36% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DHILLON, PUNEET S 1 82.1% +19.0%
LE, THUYKHANH 1 78.1% +36.8%
SHENG, XIN 1 72.5% +17.2%
ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 1 80.5% +16.9%
KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 1 84.7% +10.7%
KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 1 66.7% +50.0%
MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 1 11.5% +60.0%
LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA 1
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1 56.8% +17.3%
SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 1 58.5% +14.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18612212 VIEWING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND VIEWING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT METHOD ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 10d overdue
18425179 HYDROGEN CHARGING DEVICE AND ROTATING BENDING FATIGUE TESTING MACHINE USING SAME KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 7d
18953495 INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD DHILLON, PUNEET S 76d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18371633 CORTICAL SPREADING DEPOLARIZATION SENSING METHOD, SENSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 91d overdue
18838039 Information processing apparatus, Information processing method, Program and Recording medium LE, THUYKHANH 10d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18371633 CORTICAL SPREADING DEPOLARIZATION SENSING METHOD, SENSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 91d overdue
18029707 BEAUTY DEVICE SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 73d overdue
18196314 Packing material-containing microcolumn KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 35d overdue
18838039 Information processing apparatus, Information processing method, Program and Recording medium LE, THUYKHANH 10d overdue
18612212 VIEWING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND VIEWING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT METHOD ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 10d overdue
18425179 HYDROGEN CHARGING DEVICE AND ROTATING BENDING FATIGUE TESTING MACHINE USING SAME KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 7d
18539412 CONTROL PROGRAM GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTROL PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 29d
18787988 NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUPERVISED DATA GENERATION PROGRAM, SUPERVISED DATA GENERATION METHOD, SUPERVISED DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, TRAINING APPARATUS, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF SUPERVISED DATA SHENG, XIN 34d

Client Portfolio (13 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37912
24881
26551
26191
21631
28551
21171
37291
17791
37941

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18953495 INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Micware Co., Ltd. DHILLON, PUNEET S 2488 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18838039 Information processing apparatus, Information processing method, Program and Recording medium Pioneer Corporation LE, THUYKHANH 2655 §101 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18787988 NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SUPERVISED DATA GENERATION PROGRAM, SUPERVISED DATA GENERATION METHOD, SUPERVISED DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, TRAINING APPARATUS, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF SUPERVISED DATA Noah Solution Inc. SHENG, XIN 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18612212 VIEWING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND VIEWING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT METHOD Id Holdings Corporation ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18425179 HYDROGEN CHARGING DEVICE AND ROTATING BENDING FATIGUE TESTING MACHINE USING SAME Fukuoka University KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18539412 CONTROL PROGRAM GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTROL PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Opton Co. Ltd. KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18371633 CORTICAL SPREADING DEPOLARIZATION SENSING METHOD, SENSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Ant5 Co., Ltd. MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18199166 EXPOSURE HEAD, CALIBRATION SYSTEM, AND DRAWING DEVICE Inspec Inc. LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA 3729 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 18, 2023
18196314 Packing material-containing microcolumn Ace Bioanalysis, Inc. KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 §102 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18029707 BEAUTY DEVICE BELEGA Co., Ltd. SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 3794 §102 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18191164 PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED BLOCK PREPARATION DEVICE Jokoh Co., Ltd. LE, AUSTIN Q 1796 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 28, 2023
18091096 CELL CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLS, CELL CULTURE APPARATUS, AND CELL CULTURE JIG Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 29, 2022
17922387 DRAWING METHOD, DRAWING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM Inspec Inc. THONG, YEONG JUEN 3761 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
17963719 HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION MEASURING SYSTEM, TRANSVAGINAL PROBE, ATTACHMENT, AND HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION MEASURING METHOD Cellspect Co., Ltd. NOVAK, ALYSSA PAIGE 3791 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2022

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