Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd.

77 pending office actions • 26 art units • 47 examiners • 0 of 77 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 98 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

77
Total Pending OAs
50
Non-Final OAs
24
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 76 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

38
Overdue
2
Due this week
22
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
7
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. 76 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (38)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (22)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (7)

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%)
69
Medium (90%)
4
Easy (5%)
4
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only62 (81%)
§102 only6 (8%)
§112 only4 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
No statute on record4 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

74
Life Sciences
96% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
3% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
1% 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.

770 h
Manual time on pending OAs
154 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
270 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GARRETT, DAWN L 5 72.4% +10.1%
OLADAPO, TAIWO 4 53.0% +11.3%
GOLOBOY, JAMES C 4 63.5% +8.8%
VASISTH, VISHAL V 4 72.3% +33.3%
DEGUIRE, SEAN M 4 59.9% +29.9%
DAHLBURG, ELIZABETH M 4 49.2% +48.3%
TOOMER, CEPHIA D 3 74.1% +2.4%
BOHATY, ANDREW K 3 65.3% +23.1%
YANG, JAY LEE 3 73.7% +2.4%
WATSON, BRAELYN 3 41.8% +38.1%

Interview Candidates (27)

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
17612293 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, COMPOUND, AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE WATSON, BRAELYN 114d overdue
18849216 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION OLADAPO, TAIWO 91d overdue
17767779 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENTS, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARRETT, DAWN L 78d overdue
18708253 REFRIGERATOR OIL COMPOSITION AND MIXED COMPOSITION FOR REFRIGERATOR VASISTH, VISHAL V 71d overdue
17299937 NOVEL COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE USING THE SAME DAHLBURG, ELIZABETH M 56d overdue
19105869 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION OLADAPO, TAIWO 36d overdue
18081365 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS GARRETT, DAWN L 31d overdue
17759887 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DEGUIRE, SEAN M 28d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1786 23
1771 17
1759 3
1767 3
1766 3
1737 3
1726 2
1789 2
1762 2
1655 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19297775 COMPOUND, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT MATERIAL, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE KERSHNER, DYLAN CLAY 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2025
19105869 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2025
18878172 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR USING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1771 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18869464 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1771 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Nov 26, 2024
18851952 GREASE COMPOSITION GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18851172 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1771 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18851105 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1771 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18849737 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2024
18849216 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18841473 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1771 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2024
18839464 WATER-SOLUBLE LUBRICANT VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2024
18836902 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION MCAVOY, ELLEN M 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18709880 REFRIGERATOR OIL COMPOSITION AND MIXED COMPOSITION FOR REFRIGERATORS VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending May 14, 2024
18708253 REFRIGERATOR OIL COMPOSITION AND MIXED COMPOSITION FOR REFRIGERATOR VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18705510 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE, PADDLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18690793 LUBRICANT BASE OIL VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18683388 EQUIPMENT FOR MANUFACTURING BIOMASS SOLID FUEL HINES, LATOSHA D 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18573541 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18519392 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18551635 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM HYDROXIDE MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18548365 LUBRICANT COMPOSITION OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18262289 STYRENE-BASED RESIN COMPOSITION DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18272843 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE COHEN, STEFANIE J 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18271515 MODIFIED SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18215853 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18268561 ELECTRODE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOLAR CELL MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18335447 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 2893 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18202747 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending May 26, 2023
18039188 COMPOUND, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 26, 2023
18252445 LIGNIN COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF SALAMON, PETER A 1759 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 10, 2023
18035131 SOLID ELECTROLYTE PRODUCTION METHOD JONES, OLIVIA ANN 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18251338 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM HYDROXIDE BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1736 §112 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
18250406 PEPTIDE TAG AND TAGGED PROTEIN CONTAINING SAME NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 25, 2023
18030286 SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE GLASS CERAMIC AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SAME STANLEY, JANE L 1767 Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18123384 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ATOMIZATION SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ATOMIZATION SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ELECTRODE MIXTURE AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY LI, AIQUN 1766 §102 Final Rejection 71d Pending Mar 20, 2023
18022964 THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Feb 23, 2023
18041231 PROPYLENE RESIN COMPOSITION DU, SURBHI M 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 187d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18012896 RESIN COMPOSITION, MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD OF IMPROVING PROPERTY OF RESIN COMPOSITION ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 23, 2022
18081334 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18081365 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS GARRETT, DAWN L 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18001661 HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND AND AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE COMPRISING THE HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND BOHATY, ANDREW K §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18009315 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE VISCONTI, GERALDINA 1737 DPOther Non-Final OA 77d Pending Dec 08, 2022
18076201 COMPOSITION, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE VISCONTI, GERALDINA 1737 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 06, 2022
17924156 SOLID ELECTROLYTE PRODUCING METHOD HA, STEVEN S 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17922694 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS BOHATY, ANDREW K 1759 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Nov 01, 2022
18049714 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENTS, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SIMBANA, RACHEL A 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17918728 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHANDHOK, JENNA N 1789 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 13, 2022
17764905 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE YANG, JAY LEE 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Oct 07, 2022
17915584 RESIN, RESIN PRECURSOR COMPOSITION, COATING COMPOSITION, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, MOLDED ARTICLE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR PRODUCTION METHOD KAHN, RACHEL 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17951913 MODIFIED LIGNIN, MODIFIED POLYPHENOL MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND MODIFIED LIGNIN-INCLUDING RESIN COMPOSITION MATERIAL HEINCER, LIAM J 1767 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17909701 COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE DOLLINGER, MICHAEL M 1766 §102 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2022
17801120 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Aug 19, 2022
17886342 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE BOHATY, ANDREW K 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 11, 2022
17760215 SILANE-CONTAINING COMPOUND AND MODIFIED HYDROGENATED PETROLEUM RESIN DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 1763 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2022
17760154 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE AND AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE COMPRISING THE COMPOUND DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Aug 04, 2022
17759947 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SIMBANA, RACHEL A 1786 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 02, 2022
17759887 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2022
17865693 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE YOON, TAE H 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
17849574 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE YANG, JAY LEE 1786 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2022
17787964 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 §112 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2022
17843290 COMPOUND, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WATSON, BRAELYN 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2022
17786789 POLYCYCLIC COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE AND AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE COMPRISING THE POLYCYCLIC COMPOUND WATSON, BRAELYN 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Jun 17, 2022
17781767 ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENT FOR INTESTINAL CELL CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2022
17779911 COMPOUND, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE YANG, JAY LEE 1786 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending May 25, 2022
17774074 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DAHLBURG, ELIZABETH M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 03, 2022
17772002 INSULIN RESISTANCE INHIBITOR FOR RUMINANT ANIMALS CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN 1655 Other Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2022
17767779 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENTS, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARRETT, DAWN L 1786 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17642661 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CLARK, GREGORY D 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 11, 2022
17642652 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARRETT, DAWN L 1786 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2022
17642222 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARRETT, DAWN L 1786 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2022
17640979 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENTS, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2022
17634844 COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENTS, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DAHLBURG, ELIZABETH M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Feb 11, 2022
17634119 COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE GARRETT, DAWN L 1786 §112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 09, 2022
17592173 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS DAHLBURG, ELIZABETH M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Feb 03, 2022
17631927 ELECTRODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME DAULTON, CHRISTINA RENEE 1729 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2022
17612293 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, COMPOUND, AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE WATSON, BRAELYN 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2021
17299937 NOVEL COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE USING THE SAME DAHLBURG, ELIZABETH M 1786 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2021

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