Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only3 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GEYER, SCOTT B 2 94.1% +4.4%
NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M 1 79.4% +19.9%
MARTIN, ANGELA J 1 67.4% -32.2%
RUTISER, CLAIRE A 1 42.1% +20.1%

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
18513535 CATHODE AND ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR GEYER, SCOTT B 9d
18400579 Electrolytic Capacitor GEYER, SCOTT B 20d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18277305 VALVE STRUCTURE, OPENING-SEALING MEMBER, POWER STORAGE DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M 121d overdue
17440432 SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE RUTISER, CLAIRE A 104d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2812 2
3753 1
1727 1
1751 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18400579 Electrolytic Capacitor GEYER, SCOTT B 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18513535 CATHODE AND ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR GEYER, SCOTT B 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 18, 2023
18277305 VALVE STRUCTURE, OPENING-SEALING MEMBER, POWER STORAGE DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M 3753 §102 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
17907964 SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE MARTIN, ANGELA J 1727 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2022
17440432 SOLID ELECTROLYTE, ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID ELECTROLYTE RUTISER, CLAIRE A 1751 §103 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Sep 17, 2021

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