Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fujifilm Electronic Materials U S A Inc.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)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.

1
Hard (11%)
7
Medium (78%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only7 (78%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

9
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 2 71.5% +19.8%
CAI, WENWEN 1 59.9% +20.2%
BOYER, CHARLES I 1 70.8% +18.9%
MARKOFF, ALEXANDER 1 48.8% +32.1%
PAUL, SHREYA 1
LU, JIONG-PING 1 83.5% +7.8%
CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 1 34.9% +49.3%
MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 1 58.4% +16.8%

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
18141530 Polishing Compositions and Methods of Using Same LU, JIONG-PING 14d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18544841 CLEANING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF PAUL, SHREYA 50d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18127053 POLISHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 93d overdue
17699655 POLISHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 44d overdue
18419639 Surface Treatment Compositions and Methods MARKOFF, ALEXANDER 3d overdue
17498813 Dielectric Film-Forming Composition MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 3d overdue
18809561 DIELECTRIC FILM-FORMING COMPOSITION CAI, WENWEN 13d
17970667 POLISHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 30d
18616337 CLEANING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BOYER, CHARLES I 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1713 3
1761 2
1763 1
1711 1
1731 1
1767 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18809561 DIELECTRIC FILM-FORMING COMPOSITION CAI, WENWEN 1763 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 20, 2024
18616337 CLEANING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BOYER, CHARLES I 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18419639 Surface Treatment Compositions and Methods MARKOFF, ALEXANDER 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2024
18544841 CLEANING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF PAUL, SHREYA 1761 §101 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18141530 Polishing Compositions and Methods of Using Same LU, JIONG-PING 1713 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 01, 2023
18127053 POLISHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1713 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
17970667 POLISHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Oct 21, 2022
17699655 POLISHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2022
17498813 Dielectric Film-Forming Composition MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2021

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