Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg Co. Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§102 only1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SERGENT, RABON A 2 54.2% +24.7%
MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 1 81.0% +1.1%
LE, HOA T 1 72.6% +12.6%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18858406 ALUMINA-BASED THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE ROUNDED-DISC-SHAPED PARTICLES, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME, THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, LIQUID COMPOSITION, THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE THIN FILM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MEMBER MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 107d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17414225 POLYURETHANE UREA WATER DISPERSION, MATTE COATING MATERIAL, AND SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT SERGENT, RABON A 699d overdue
18834929 WATER REPELLENT CELLULOSE BEADS, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND COSMETIC LE, HOA T 55d
17054936 POLYURETHANE RESIN, PAINT, STRUCTURE, AND ARTICLE SERGENT, RABON A 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1765 2
1731 1
1788 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18858406 ALUMINA-BASED THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE ROUNDED-DISC-SHAPED PARTICLES, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME, THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, LIQUID COMPOSITION, THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE THIN FILM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MEMBER MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2024
18834929 WATER REPELLENT CELLULOSE BEADS, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND COSMETIC LE, HOA T 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jul 31, 2024
17414225 POLYURETHANE UREA WATER DISPERSION, MATTE COATING MATERIAL, AND SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §102 Non-Final OA 699d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2021
17054936 POLYURETHANE RESIN, PAINT, STRUCTURE, AND ARTICLE SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Nov 12, 2020

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