Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kureha Corporation

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
5
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
3
Due this month
3
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

1
Hard (10%)
6
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (30%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only1 (10%)
No statute on record3 (30%)

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
HIRT, ERIN E 2 39.2% +23.3%
SHUKLA, KRUPA 1 14.5% +22.6%
IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1 33.4% +25.1%
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1 53.3% +30.8%
MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 1
SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1 68.8% +28.3%
BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL 1
SASTRI, SATYA B 1 63.1% +29.3%
HUHN, RICHARD A 1 66.7% +5.6%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18260434 PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR OR METHOD FOR PROMOTING PLANT GROWTH HIRT, ERIN E 4d overdue
18859446 THERMALLY SHRINKABLE MULTILAYER FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME SHUKLA, KRUPA 3d 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
18566847 MONOFILAMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 43d overdue
18260434 PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR OR METHOD FOR PROMOTING PLANT GROWTH HIRT, ERIN E 4d overdue
18859446 THERMALLY SHRINKABLE MULTILAYER FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME SHUKLA, KRUPA 3d overdue
18566864 MONOFILAMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 8d
17597402 PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING PLANT GROWTH HIRT, ERIN E 22d
18546850 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AZOLE DERIVATIVE SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 34d
18254490 VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND ELECTRODE CONTAINING THESE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME SASTRI, SATYA B 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1789 2
1616 2
1787 1
1738 1
1629 1
1728 1
1762 1
1764 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18859446 THERMALLY SHRINKABLE MULTILAYER FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2024
18566864 MONOFILAMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1789 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18566847 MONOFILAMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18551332 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON QUANTUM DOTS MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 1738 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18546850 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AZOLE DERIVATIVE SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18546202 BINDER SOLUTION, SLURRY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, ELECTRODE, AND ALL-SOLID BATTERY BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL 1728 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18260434 PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR OR METHOD FOR PROMOTING PLANT GROWTH HIRT, ERIN E 1616 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023
18254490 VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND ELECTRODE CONTAINING THESE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME SASTRI, SATYA B 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending May 25, 2023
18042698 RESIN COMPOSITION, COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAME, ELECTRODE FOR STACKING, SEPARATOR FOR STACKING, AND NONAQUEOUS-ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND PRODUCTING METHOD THEREFOR HUHN, RICHARD A 1764 §102 Final Rejection 83d Pending Feb 23, 2023
17597402 PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING PLANT GROWTH HIRT, ERIN E 1616 Other Final Rejection 22d Pending Jan 05, 2022

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