Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Nakanishi Ip Associates, LLC

9 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=603 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

81.7%
Allowance Rate
n=603
+0.41σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=603
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=410
-0.66σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=410
786 days
Time to Allowance
n=410
+9.9pp
Interview Lift
n=603
15.9%
RCE Rate
n=603
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=603

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

58.1%
§101 Overcome
n=43
73.5%
§102 Overcome
n=185
69.8%
§103 Overcome
n=281
74.3%
§112 Overcome
n=218

Specialization & Scale

B01D, B25J, D05B
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=603
1
Practitioners
n=603
603.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=603

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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

4
Hard (44%)
5
Medium (56%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (11%)
§103 only5 (56%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
56% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 2 56.7% +17.6%
SHENG, XIN 1 72.7% +17.0%
WU, JAMES 1 70.6% +33.6%
SHAO, PHILLIP Y 1 75.1% +23.8%
UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1 58.9% +50.6%
LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA 1
HENKEL, DANIELLE B 1 56.4% +23.7%
TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN 1 39.2% +43.7%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18196314 Packing material-containing microcolumn KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 35d overdue
18392380 CELL CULTURE METHOD, CELL CULTURE KIT, AND CELL CULTURE SYSTEM UNDERDAHL, THANE E
18307968 CELL CULTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PROLIFERATIVE PROPERTY OF CELLS HENKEL, DANIELLE B
17916531 CONCRETE SURFACE PROCESSING METHOD AND LASER-PROCESSED CONCRETE SURFACE TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18196314 Packing material-containing microcolumn KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 35d overdue
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
18754974 STRUCTURE BLOCKING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES WU, JAMES
18620438 FILTER SHAO, PHILLIP Y
18392380 CELL CULTURE METHOD, CELL CULTURE KIT, AND CELL CULTURE SYSTEM UNDERDAHL, THANE E
18381285 FILTER ELEMENT AND STRAINER KURTZ, BENJAMIN M
18307968 CELL CULTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PROLIFERATIVE PROPERTY OF CELLS HENKEL, DANIELLE B
17916531 CONCRETE SURFACE PROCESSING METHOD AND LASER-PROCESSED CONCRETE SURFACE TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17792
26191
28411
17761
16991
37291
17991
37611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18754974 STRUCTURE BLOCKING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES Cognitive Research Labs, Inc. WU, JAMES 2841 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 26, 2024
18620438 FILTER Yamashin-Filter Corp. SHAO, PHILLIP Y 1776 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 28, 2024
18392380 CELL CULTURE METHOD, CELL CULTURE KIT, AND CELL CULTURE SYSTEM Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1699 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18381285 FILTER ELEMENT AND STRAINER Yamashin-Filter Corp. KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 18, 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 §103§112 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18307968 CELL CULTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PROLIFERATIVE PROPERTY OF CELLS Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. HENKEL, DANIELLE B 1799 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 27, 2023
17916531 CONCRETE SURFACE PROCESSING METHOD AND LASER-PROCESSED CONCRETE SURFACE Toyokoh Co.,Ltd. TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 30, 2022

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