Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd.

25 pending office actions • 19 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
4
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (4)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%)
24
Medium (96%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only23 (92%)
§102 only1 (4%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

23
Life Sciences
92% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
8% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TAYLOR, JORDAN W 2 67.1% +40.1%
PATEL, DEVANG R 1 65.1% +39.3%
SWANSON, ANDREW L 1 66.1% +11.2%
DINH, TUAN T 1 78.8% +22.9%
DANG, PHUC T 1 95.4% +1.3%
LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC 1 100.0% +0.0%
GOFF II, JOHN L 1 59.3% +30.7%
ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN 1 69.3% +16.1%
ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T 1 56.2% +24.8%
MARTIN, ANGELA J 1 67.4% -32.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18571831 CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD DANG, PHUC T 1d overdue
18284710 EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST COMPOSITION AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC 22d

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
17789818 NIOBIC ACID AQUEOUS SOLUTION TAYLOR, JORDAN W 23d overdue
18277307 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T 5d overdue
18269906 BETA ZEOLITE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME TAYLOR, JORDAN W 2d overdue
18277742 SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN 15d
18704680 DOUBLE-SIDED COPPER CLAD LAMINATE, CAPACITOR ELEMENT AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD WITH BUILT-IN CAPACITOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DOUBLE-SIDED COPPER CLAD LAMINATE DINH, TUAN T 19d
18836850 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED BODY AND METHOD FOR BONDING BODIES TO BE BONDED PATEL, DEVANG R 33d
18724400 SHEET FIXING DEVICE, SHEET PEELING DEVICE, AND SHEET PEELING METHOD SWANSON, ANDREW L 41d
18277669 METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED PLATE AND HEAT GENERATOR, AND DEFROSTER GOFF II, JOHN L 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1723 3
1735 2
1727 2
1738 2
1751 2
1745 1
2847 1
2897 1
1732 1
1746 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18836850 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED BODY AND METHOD FOR BONDING BODIES TO BE BONDED PATEL, DEVANG R 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 07, 2025
18724400 SHEET FIXING DEVICE, SHEET PEELING DEVICE, AND SHEET PEELING METHOD SWANSON, ANDREW L 1745 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18704680 DOUBLE-SIDED COPPER CLAD LAMINATE, CAPACITOR ELEMENT AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD WITH BUILT-IN CAPACITOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DOUBLE-SIDED COPPER CLAD LAMINATE DINH, TUAN T 2847 Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Apr 25, 2024
18571831 CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD DANG, PHUC T 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18284710 EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST COMPOSITION AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18277669 METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED PLATE AND HEAT GENERATOR, AND DEFROSTER GOFF II, JOHN L 1746 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18277742 SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18277307 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18274176 BATTERY MARTIN, ANGELA J 1727 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18269906 BETA ZEOLITE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18268992 COMPLEX OXIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2023
18024846 ACTIVE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND BATTERY KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 06, 2023
18017992 ACTIVE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, ELECTRODE MIXTURE AND BATTERY KERNS, KEVIN P 1735 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jan 25, 2023
18014922 SOLID ELECTROLYTE ASSEMBLY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT COMPRISING SAME WANG, EUGENIA 1759 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18008846 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM SULFIDE PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 07, 2022
18075690 Sulfide Solid Electrolyte CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG 1751 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
17801668 ZINC FOIL, BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL USING SAME, AND ZINC FOIL PRODUCTION METHOD ELLIOTT, QUINTIN DALE 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2022
17796945 ACTIVE MATERIAL, ELECTRODE MIXTURE CONTAINING SAID ACTIVE MATERIAL, AND BATTERY REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2022
17792839 SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE, AND ELECTRODE MIXTURE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER AND BATTERY USING SAME EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jul 14, 2022
17789818 NIOBIC ACID AQUEOUS SOLUTION TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022
17788562 SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17773717 RESIN COMPOSITION AND RESIN-ATTACHED COPPER FOIL ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN 1762 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending May 02, 2022
17764232 SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE, AND ELECTRODE MIXTURE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, AND SOLID BATTERY USING SAME KRONE, TAYLOR HARRISON 1725 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2022
17434190 SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2021
17426418 SULFIDE SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND SULFIDE-SOLID-STATE-ELECTROLYTE MANUFACTURING METHOD LUO, KAN 1751 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2021

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