Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Daido Steel Co., Ltd.

11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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 (36%)
7
Medium (64%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (55%)
§102 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
1
Business / Other
9% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YANG, JIE 2 62.2% +19.4%
KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1 61.9% +27.2%
HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI 1
ROE, JESSEE RANDALL 1 76.3% +7.8%
STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN 1 0.0% +0.0%
RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI 1
GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK 1
OMORI, MARY I 1 50.8% +58.7%
O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1 65.6% +12.5%
HILL, STEPHANI A 1 29.5% +44.4%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18287521 STEEL MATERIAL FOR CARBONITRIDING AND CARBONITRIDED STEEL MATERIAL ROE, JESSEE RANDALL 26d
17774910 POWDER MATERIAL O'KEEFE, SEAN P 33d
18227321 Si ALLOY POWDER FOR NEGATIVE ELECTRODE RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI 34d
18370225 STEEL MATERIAL AND MOLD STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN 85d
18384185 Ni-BASED ALLOY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND Ni-BASED ALLOY MEMBER YANG, JIE
17689722 POWDER MATERIAL AND PRODUCING METHOD FOR THE SAME HILL, STEPHANI A

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18271017 WIRE ROD FOR FORMING MOLTEN METAL, AND WELDING PRODUCT OMORI, MARY I 36d overdue
17774910 POWDER MATERIAL O'KEEFE, SEAN P 33d
18937864 FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND STEEL SHEET KRUPICKA, ADAM C 84d
18431124 Fe-Co ALLOY FOR SOFT MAGNETIC MEMBER, AND SOFT MAGNETIC MEMBER USING SAME YANG, JIE
18384185 Ni-BASED ALLOY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND Ni-BASED ALLOY MEMBER YANG, JIE
17689722 POWDER MATERIAL AND PRODUCING METHOD FOR THE SAME HILL, STEPHANI A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1784 2
1734 2
1759 1
1733 1
1712 1
3761 1
1738 1
1735 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18937864 FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND STEEL SHEET KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18692711 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL POWDER FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERY HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2024
18431124 Fe-Co ALLOY FOR SOFT MAGNETIC MEMBER, AND SOFT MAGNETIC MEMBER USING SAME YANG, JIE 1734 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 02, 2024
18384185 Ni-BASED ALLOY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND Ni-BASED ALLOY MEMBER YANG, JIE 1734 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 26, 2023
18287521 STEEL MATERIAL FOR CARBONITRIDING AND CARBONITRIDED STEEL MATERIAL ROE, JESSEE RANDALL 1759 §103§112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 19, 2023
18370225 STEEL MATERIAL AND MOLD STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 85d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18227321 Si ALLOY POWDER FOR NEGATIVE ELECTRODE RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI 1712 §103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18218435 WELDING WIRE GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK 3761 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2023
18271017 WIRE ROD FOR FORMING MOLTEN METAL, AND WELDING PRODUCT OMORI, MARY I 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023
17774910 POWDER MATERIAL O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1738 §103§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending May 06, 2022
17689722 POWDER MATERIAL AND PRODUCING METHOD FOR THE SAME HILL, STEPHANI A 1735 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 08, 2022

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