Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd.

64 pending office actions • 37 art units • 58 examiners • 0 of 64 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 121 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

64
Total Pending OAs
44
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 63 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

34
Overdue
2
Due this week
16
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 63 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (34)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (16)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (3)

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%)
59
Medium (92%)
2
Easy (3%)
3
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only51 (80%)
§102 only8 (12%)
§112 only2 (3%)
No statute on record3 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

43
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
4
Communications
6% of docket
14
Semiconductors
22% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

640 h
Manual time on pending OAs
128 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
224 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 2 32.0% +48.5%
SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 2 71.7% +8.7%
HIGGINS, GERARD T 2 62.8% +39.3%
SHAH, SAMIR 2 36.1% +34.4%
REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 2 45.8% +53.2%
ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 2 72.7% +2.9%
GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1 42.1% +39.0%
NGUYEN, HOANG V 1 90.9% +6.2%
MUSSER, BARBARA J 1 71.0% +27.3%
PYO, KEVIN K 1 87.1% +10.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18805740 OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE, MULTIFACED OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE AND OPTICAL ENCODER PYO, KEVIN K 44d overdue
18685973 FREQUENCY SELECTIVE REFLECTOR AND COMMUNICATION RELAY SYSTEM NGUYEN, HOANG V 23d overdue

Interview Candidates (11)

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
17914009 DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE SHAH, SAMIR 67d overdue
18805740 OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE, MULTIFACED OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE AND OPTICAL ENCODER PYO, KEVIN K 44d overdue
19203760 INFRARED-LIGHT-TRANSMITTING INK OF DARK COLOR, AND INFRARED-LIGHT-REFLECTING SHEET OBTAINED USING SAME GOLDEN, ANDREW J 15d overdue
17997380 HEAT TRANSFER SHEET AND COMBINATION OF HEAT TRANSFER SHEET AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 9d overdue
18576780 THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET HIGGINS, GERARD T 4d overdue
18714266 DECORATIVE SHEET OBTAINED USING BIOMASS-DERIVED POLYETHYLENE, AND DECORATIVE PLATE GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 3d overdue
18285097 TRANSFER FILM, HARD COAT FILM, HARD-COATED FORMED ARTICLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HARD-COATED FORMED ARTICLE SHAH, SAMIR 13d
17753827 COMBINATION OF THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED MATERIAL, AND PRINTED MATERIAL REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1785 8
1787 4
1781 4
1725 4
2872 3
1726 2
2845 2
2878 2
3763 2
1722 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19203760 INFRARED-LIGHT-TRANSMITTING INK OF DARK COLOR, AND INFRARED-LIGHT-REFLECTING SHEET OBTAINED USING SAME GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1726 Other Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 09, 2025
18685973 FREQUENCY SELECTIVE REFLECTOR AND COMMUNICATION RELAY SYSTEM NGUYEN, HOANG V 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2024
18832218 FOAMING ADHESIVE SHEET AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD MUSSER, BARBARA J 1746 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2024
18805740 OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE, MULTIFACED OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE AND OPTICAL ENCODER PYO, KEVIN K 2878 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2024
18795338 REFLECTION-TYPE OPTICAL ENCODER SCALE AND REFLECTION-TYPE OPTICAL ENCODER BENNETT, JENNIFER D 2878 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Aug 06, 2024
18761931 POLYIMIDE FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYIMIDE FILM, AND POLYIMIDE PRECURSOR RESIN COMPOSITION KAHN, RACHEL 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 02, 2024
18714266 DECORATIVE SHEET OBTAINED USING BIOMASS-DERIVED POLYETHYLENE, AND DECORATIVE PLATE GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18672682 LAMINATED GLASS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR LAMINATED GLASS LIU, SHAN 2871 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18574190 DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHOD LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 2668 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 21, 2024
18681358 BARRIER LAMINATE, LID MATERIAL, AND PACKAGING CONTAINER GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO 3735 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending May 06, 2024
18702205 ANTI-GLARE FILM, AND POLARIZING PLATE, SURFACE PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY PANEL, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE THAT USE SAME LEI, JIE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18695460 VAPOR CHAMBER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VAPOR CHAMBER ARANT, HARRY E 3763 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18606521 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18552797 STACKED BODY FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE DUNNING, RYAN S 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18263923 ANTENNA AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS DUONG, DIEU HIEN 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18578399 DECORATIVE FILM, DECORATIVE MOLDED ARTICLE, DECORATIVE DISPLAY COMPONENT, DECORATIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DECORATIVE DISPLAY COMPONENT SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1785 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18578062 THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET, METHOD FOR PRODUCING IMAGE-PRINTED MATERIAL, AND IMAGE-PRINTED MATERIAL HIGGINS, GERARD T 1785 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 10, 2024
18576780 THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET HIGGINS, GERARD T 1785 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18402805 ORNAMENTAL SHEET, ORNAMENTAL MATERIAL, AND RESIN COMPOSITION LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT 1787 Other Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2024
18568049 RESIN FILM FOR CURRENT COLLECTOR SHEET, CURRENT COLLECTOR SHEET, SOLAR CELL ELEMENT WITH CURRENT COLLECTOR SHEET, AND SOLAR CELL TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 1722 §103 Final Rejection 82d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18284342 DECORATIVE SHEET, AND DECORATIVE MEMBER IN WHICH SAME IS USED ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E 1787 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18285902 MULTILAYER BODY FOR IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE GHYKA, ALEXANDER G 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18285097 TRANSFER FILM, HARD COAT FILM, HARD-COATED FORMED ARTICLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HARD-COATED FORMED ARTICLE SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18283017 DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE PANEL SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18247375 SENSOR, GOODS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SENSOR, AND CONDUCTOR BALAOING, ARIEL A 2624 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18278016 DECORATIVE MATERIAL SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1785 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18276907 THROUGH VIA SUBSTRATE ARORA, AJAY 2892 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18264281 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, AND INTERPOSER GROUP FERNANDES, ERROL V 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18275632 BODY SHEET FOR VAPOR CHAMBER, VAPOR CHAMBER, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS ATTEY, JOEL M 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18039617 PROCESS FILM FOR USE IN MANUFACTURE OF ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY GODO, OLATUNJI A 1752 §102 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18269187 HEAT SEALING FILM, VALVE DEVICE WITH HEAT SEALING FILM, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE, VALVE STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VALVE STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE CANTELMO, GREGG 1725 §102 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18030822 HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY BODDIE, WILLIAM 2625 §103 Final Rejection 161d overdue Pending May 12, 2023
18031261 SURFACE-EMITTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, SEALING MEMBER SHEET FOR SURFACE-EMITTING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-EMITTING DEVICE LIU, MIKKA H 2817 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
18028870 DECORATIVE SHEET, DECORATIVE MATERIAL, PLATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DECORATIVE SHEET GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1785 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 28, 2023
18187159 METAL MASK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING METAL MASK WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 1712 §102 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18026994 EXTERIOR MATERIAL FOR POWER STORAGE DEVICES, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18245833 OPTICAL PLASTIC FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE THAT USE SAME, AND METHOD FOR SELECTING OPTICAL PLASTIC FILM BOOHER, ADAM W 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18026224 ANTIVIRAL ARTICLE AND ANTIVIRAL RESIN COMPOSITION ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1616 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18115486 LIGHT MODULATING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD LEONG, NATHAN T 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18013506 COIL, POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM TAN, RICHARD 2849 §112 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18163901 DEPOSITION MASK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEPOSITION MASK MOORE, KARLA A 1716 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Feb 03, 2023
17910273 OUTER PACKAGE MATERIAL FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERIES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME AND ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY TAKEUCHI, YOSHITOSHI 1723 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18159310 METHOD FOR INSPECTING MASK, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MASK, APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING MASK, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND MASK CHEN, KEATH T 1716 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2023
18015637 ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINAL OF ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY, METAL TERMINAL WITH ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINAL ATTACHED THERETO, ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY COMPRISING ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY DOUYETTE, KENNETH J 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
17905975 OPTICAL LAMINATE, POLARIZING PLATE USING SAME, SURFACE PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1781 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 14, 2022
17914009 DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022
17997380 HEAT TRANSFER SHEET AND COMBINATION OF HEAT TRANSFER SHEET AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17917666 TRANSPARENT RESIN FILM, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TRANSPARENT RESIN FILM, DECORATIVE PANEL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DECORATIVE PANEL FIGG, LAURA B 1781 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 07, 2022
17915604 DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17911384 ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE STACK, AND MOBILE BODY LIN, GIGI LEE 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2022
17909615 ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINALS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINALS, METAL TERMINAL WITH ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINAL, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE USING SAID ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINALS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL 1724 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2022
17798722 EXTERIOR MATERIAL FOR ELECTRICAL STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAID EXTERIOR MATERIAL, AND ELECTRICAL STORAGE DEVICE CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 10, 2022
17794762 DECORATIVE SHEET, DECORATIVE PANEL, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR DECORATIVE SHEET WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 1783 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jul 22, 2022
17788678 ALUMINUM ALLOY FOIL ZHENG, LOIS L 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 23, 2022
17781695 BARRIER PAPER, CONTAINER AND LID MEMBER CONTAINING SAID BARRIER PAPER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BARRIER PAPER ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2022
17625071 ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINALS, METAL TERMINAL WITH ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINALS, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE USING SAID ADHESIVE FILM FOR METAL TERMINALS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRICTY STORAGE DEVICE ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1725 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Mar 16, 2022
17753827 COMBINATION OF THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED MATERIAL, AND PRINTED MATERIAL REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 16, 2022
17438847 SHEATHING MATERIAL FOR ALL SOLID STATE BATTERY, ALL SOLID STATE BATTERY, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2021
17426566 CELL CULTURE SUBSTRATE LEVIN, JOEL D 1633 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jul 28, 2021
17423020 ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE, ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLE, AND MEHTOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE HANSEN, JARED A 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2021
17281816 ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICES, OUTER PACKAGE MEMBERS FOR ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICES, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE AGGREGATES, ELECTRIC VEHICLES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICES ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1725 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2021
17041982 LAMINATE, AND PACKAGING MATERIAL, PACKAGING BAG AND STAND-UP POUCH EACH COMPRISING SAID LAMINATE, AND MULTI-LAYER SUBSTRATE KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2020
16976328 FUNCTIONAL FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE HEINCER, LIAM J 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Aug 27, 2020
16967565 ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DESIGN METHOD OF ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND DESIGN DEVICE OF ILLUMINATION DEVICE SONG, ZHENG B 2875 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2020

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