Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ddp Specialty Electronic Materials US LLC

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 1 78.1% +26.2%
BREWSTER, HAYDEN R 1 61.9% +48.4%
KATCHEVES, BASIL S 1 72.3% +17.5%
MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 1 54.9% +47.9%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 42.5% +47.2%
GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T 1 53.0% +2.0%
WILLS, MONIQUE M 1 85.7% -31.4%
PENNY, TABATHA L 1 45.5% +22.9%

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
17594888 THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS WILLS, MONIQUE M 53d overdue

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
18033534 ONE-COMPONENT STRUCTURAL ADHESIVE MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 52d overdue
18552201 METHOD FOR TREATING FEED WATER USING A BIOSTRATUM AND FILTRATION MEDIA BREWSTER, HAYDEN R 36d overdue
17415356 METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AND QUANTIFYING BIOFILM ON SOLID SURFACES PENNY, TABATHA L 12d
18482064 System For Determining Construction Installation Accuracy SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 14d
18343044 REINFORCED INSULATED STRUCTURAL PANELS KATCHEVES, BASIL S 22d
18031454 ONE-COMPONENT POLYURETHANE ADHESIVE BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2667 1
1779 1
3633 1
1787 1
1762 1
1781 1
1723 1
1712 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18482064 System For Determining Construction Installation Accuracy SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 2667 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18552201 METHOD FOR TREATING FEED WATER USING A BIOSTRATUM AND FILTRATION MEDIA BREWSTER, HAYDEN R 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18343044 REINFORCED INSULATED STRUCTURAL PANELS KATCHEVES, BASIL S 3633 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18033534 ONE-COMPONENT STRUCTURAL ADHESIVE MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 1787 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18031454 ONE-COMPONENT POLYURETHANE ADHESIVE BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Apr 12, 2023
18164129 BUILDING BOARD WITH INTEGRAL VAPOR-PERMEABLE WATER-RESISTANT SHEET MEMBRANE GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T 1781 §112 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
17594888 THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS WILLS, MONIQUE M 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2021
17415356 METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AND QUANTIFYING BIOFILM ON SOLID SURFACES PENNY, TABATHA L 1712 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jun 17, 2021

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