Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dow Toray Co. Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (90%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

10
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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZIMMER, MARC S 2 79.3% +15.9%
LIU, ZHEN 2 42.0% +45.8%
KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1 60.7% +28.8%
PEPITONE, MICHAEL F 1 74.3% +22.2%
NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1 56.3% +28.9%
BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1 53.3% +47.1%
VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1 53.2% +21.4%
LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 1 81.3% +22.2%

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
17911740 CEMENT COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 208d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17911740 CEMENT COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 208d overdue
17772866 WATER-SOLUBLE SILICONE ANTI-FOAMING AGENT COMPOSITION AND AQUEOUS COATING MATERIAL CONTAINING SAME LIU, ZHEN 49d overdue
18034002 CURABLE FLUOROSILICONE COMPOSITION NERANGIS, VICKEY M 16d overdue
17418369 CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION FOR TRANSFER MOLDING, CURED PRODUCT THEREOF, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF LIU, ZHEN 14d
18013880 CURABLE ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION AND USE THEREFOR ZIMMER, MARC S 16d
18268224 CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT OF SAME, AND LAMINATE PEPITONE, MICHAEL F 21d
18030264 CARBOXYLIC ACID CO-MODIFIED ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE AND USE THEREOF VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 28d
18290515 DISPLAY DEVICE (IN PARTICULAR, HAPTIC DISPLAY DEVICE) AND DESIGN METHOD FOR SAME KHATRI, PRASHANT J 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1765 3
1767 3
1783 1
1763 1
1612 1
1731 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18290515 DISPLAY DEVICE (IN PARTICULAR, HAPTIC DISPLAY DEVICE) AND DESIGN METHOD FOR SAME KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1783 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 14, 2023
18279057 CO-MODIFIED ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE AND CURABLE ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION INCLUDING SAME ZIMMER, MARC S 1765 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Aug 26, 2023
18013880 CURABLE ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION AND USE THEREFOR ZIMMER, MARC S 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18268224 CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT OF SAME, AND LAMINATE PEPITONE, MICHAEL F 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 17, 2023
18034002 CURABLE FLUOROSILICONE COMPOSITION NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1763 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18034005 CURABLE FLUOROSILICONE COMPOSITION BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1765 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18030264 CARBOXYLIC ACID CO-MODIFIED ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE AND USE THEREOF VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 04, 2023
17911740 CEMENT COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 208d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2022
17772866 WATER-SOLUBLE SILICONE ANTI-FOAMING AGENT COMPOSITION AND AQUEOUS COATING MATERIAL CONTAINING SAME LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2022
17418369 CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION FOR TRANSFER MOLDING, CURED PRODUCT THEREOF, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 28, 2021

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