Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
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.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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
ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 2 42.9% +27.1%
CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1 62.2% -17.0%
PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 1 68.6% +21.9%
ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1
YOUNG, NATASHA E 1 83.0% +9.2%
ORTA, LAUREN GRACE 1 78.4% +26.0%
DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1 53.1% +45.0%
RIPA, BRYAN D 1 53.3% +37.1%
NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D 1 65.1% +28.1%

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
18034061 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT FACILITY YOUNG, NATASHA E 36d

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
17909988 METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING CORROSION FATIGUE OF BOILER EVAPORATION TUBE NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D 155d overdue
17928535 METHOD FOR PROVIDING CORROSION PROTECTION TO A PRESSURIZED WATER-STEAM SYSTEM DIAZ, MATTHEW R 51d overdue
17912910 STARTUP METHOD FOR ELECTROLYTIC SULFURIC ACID SOLUTION MANUFACTURING SYSTEM RIPA, BRYAN D 43d overdue
18689405 DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 28d overdue
17927734 REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE PROCESSING METHOD ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 25d overdue
18008955 PURE WATER PRODUCTION METHOD ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 22d
18006933 WAFER CLEANING WATER SUPPLY DEVICE ORTA, LAUREN GRACE 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1711 2
1773 2
1761 2
3753 1
1779 1
1774 1
1794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18851077 CLEANING METHOD FOR EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT FACILITY CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18689405 DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 3753 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18020686 PH/REDOX POTENTIAL-ADJUSTED WATER PRODUCTION APPARATUS ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18034061 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT FACILITY YOUNG, NATASHA E 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18006933 WAFER CLEANING WATER SUPPLY DEVICE ORTA, LAUREN GRACE 1711 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jan 26, 2023
18008955 PURE WATER PRODUCTION METHOD ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 07, 2022
17928535 METHOD FOR PROVIDING CORROSION PROTECTION TO A PRESSURIZED WATER-STEAM SYSTEM DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022
17927734 REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE PROCESSING METHOD ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 1773 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2022
17912910 STARTUP METHOD FOR ELECTROLYTIC SULFURIC ACID SOLUTION MANUFACTURING SYSTEM RIPA, BRYAN D 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2022
17909988 METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING CORROSION FATIGUE OF BOILER EVAPORATION TUBE NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D 1761 §103 Final Rejection 155d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2022

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