Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ibiden Co. Ltd.

15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 11 of 15 (73%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
11
Medium (73%)
1
Easy (7%)
3
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (53%)
§102 only3 (20%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record3 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
27% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
10
Semiconductors
67% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VARGHESE, ROSHN K 2 66.9% +20.5%
RASSOULI, LILI 2
LEE, PETE T 1 75.0% +10.5%
MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F 1 85.7% +6.2%
GUGGER, SEAN A 1 64.5% +22.9%
ANDREWS, MICHAEL 1 64.0% +24.7%
MAIGA, SIDI MOHAMED 1 72.2% +16.7%
PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA 1 53.9% +28.2%
AVERICK, LAWRENCE 1 75.8% +23.9%
PATEL, PARESH H 1 79.4% -1.3%

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
18640293 WIRING SUBSTRATE MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F 9d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18324278 WIRING SUBSTRATE VARGHESE, ROSHN K 85d overdue
18431255 COIL SUBSTRATE, MOTOR COIL SUBSTRATE, AND MOTOR ANDREWS, MICHAEL 19d overdue
18396709 MAT MATERIAL, EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MAT MATERIAL PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA 16d overdue
18470570 GLASS FIBER REINFORCED SUBSTRATE DRILL AND METHOD OF FORMING THROUGH HOLES IN GLASS FIBER REINFORCED SUBSTRATE AVERICK, LAWRENCE 10d overdue
18605882 COIL SUBSTRATE, MOTOR COIL SUBSTRATE, AND MOTOR GUGGER, SEAN A 9d
18670300 PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD LEE, PETE T 15d
18661198 PRINTED WIRING BOARD VARGHESE, ROSHN K 22d
18426547 PRINTED WIRING BOARD MAIGA, SIDI MOHAMED 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2847 4
2896 3
2834 2
1728 2
1783 1
3799 1
2858 1
1726 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18670300 PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD LEE, PETE T 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 15d AI Ready May 21, 2024
18661198 PRINTED WIRING BOARD VARGHESE, ROSHN K 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 22d AI Ready May 10, 2024
18640293 WIRING SUBSTRATE MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 9d AI Ready Apr 19, 2024
18605882 COIL SUBSTRATE, MOTOR COIL SUBSTRATE, AND MOTOR GUGGER, SEAN A 2834 §103 Final Rejection 9d AI Ready Mar 15, 2024
18431255 COIL SUBSTRATE, MOTOR COIL SUBSTRATE, AND MOTOR ANDREWS, MICHAEL 2834 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue AI Ready Feb 02, 2024
18426547 PRINTED WIRING BOARD MAIGA, SIDI MOHAMED 2847 §103 Final Rejection 41d AI Ready Jan 30, 2024
18396709 MAT MATERIAL, EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MAT MATERIAL PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA 1783 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18470570 GLASS FIBER REINFORCED SUBSTRATE DRILL AND METHOD OF FORMING THROUGH HOLES IN GLASS FIBER REINFORCED SUBSTRATE AVERICK, LAWRENCE 3799 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue AI Ready Sep 20, 2023
18453354 CONDUCTION INSPECTION JIG AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD PATEL, PARESH H 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 19d AI Ready Aug 22, 2023
18275101 ASSEMBLED BATTERY AND BATTERY PACK RASSOULI, LILI 1728 Other Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18275098 ASSEMBLED BATTERY AND BATTERY PACK RASSOULI, LILI 1728 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18272300 HEAT TRANSFER SUPPRESSION SHEET FOR BATTERY PACK, AND BATTERY PACK PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 Other Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18324278 WIRING SUBSTRATE VARGHESE, ROSHN K 2896 §102 Non-Final OA 85d overdue AI Ready May 26, 2023
18307055 WIRING SUBSTRATE WILLIS, TREMESHA S 2847 §103 Final Rejection 63d AI Ready Apr 26, 2023
17822265 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING SUBSTRATE TUGBANG, ANTHONY D 2896 §112 Non-Final OA 13d AI Ready Aug 25, 2022

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