Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha maintains a portfolio in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics with 13 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, which suggests a broad technical scope within the sector. The company interacts with 13 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending action is being reviewed by a unique official. This high number of examiners relative to the 13 pending actions indicates a lack of examiner overlap.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHAH, MANISH S, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the pending actions are distributed among many individuals, the workload is perfectly dispersed. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's specific tendencies will dominate the prosecution outcomes for the current 1 pending matter. The 7 distinct art units create a highly varied prosecution environment for the practitioner to navigate.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (54%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAH, MANISH S | 1 | 85.9% | +7.1% |
| IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | 1 | 50.9% | +51.5% |
| BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1 | 38.8% | +21.7% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 51.4% | +45.0% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.2% | +48.1% |
| FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1 | 51.9% | +16.5% |
| FRASER, STEWART A | 1 | 85.9% | +14.5% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.5% | +24.7% |
| STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1 | 85.7% | +33.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18993257 | INKJET INK, INK SET, INK MEDIUM SET, AND PRINTING MEDIUM | SHAH, MANISH S | — |
| 18435588 | Compound Having Unsaturated Double Bond, Composition Comprising The Compound, Polybenzoxazole, And Polybenzoxazole Film For Semiconductor Device | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519225 | COMBINED USE OF UBENIMEX AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 14d |
| 18711667 | IGNITION AGENT AND IGNITER INCLUDING THE SAME | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 33d |
| 18294340 | Polyimide Resin, Resin Composition Comprising Polyimide Resin and Cured Product Thereof | YOON, TAE H | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519225 | COMBINED USE OF UBENIMEX AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 14d |
| 18711667 | IGNITION AGENT AND IGNITER INCLUDING THE SAME | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 33d |
| 18845717 | PEST CONTROLLING AGENT | IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | — |
| 18845312 | AGROCHEMICAL EMULSIFIABLE COMPOSITION | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — |
| 18843615 | AGRICULTURE COMPOSITION | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18837663 | SAFETY VALVE FOR HIGH-PRESSURE TANK | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| 18727188 | WINDING FILTER | PEO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18435588 | Compound Having Unsaturated Double Bond, Composition Comprising The Compound, Polybenzoxazole, And Polybenzoxazole Film For Semiconductor Device | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18993257 | INKJET INK, INK SET, INK MEDIUM SET, AND PRINTING MEDIUM | SHAH, MANISH S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18845717 | PEST CONTROLLING AGENT | IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18845312 | AGROCHEMICAL EMULSIFIABLE COMPOSITION | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18843615 | AGRICULTURE COMPOSITION | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18837663 | SAFETY VALVE FOR HIGH-PRESSURE TANK | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18727188 | WINDING FILTER | PEO, JONATHAN M | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18711667 | IGNITION AGENT AND IGNITER INCLUDING THE SAME | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18435588 | Compound Having Unsaturated Double Bond, Composition Comprising The Compound, Polybenzoxazole, And Polybenzoxazole Film For Semiconductor Device | FRASER, STEWART A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18294340 | Polyimide Resin, Resin Composition Comprising Polyimide Resin and Cured Product Thereof | YOON, TAE H | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18519225 | COMBINED USE OF UBENIMEX AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18553835 | INKJET INK, INK SET, INK MEDIUM SET, AND PRINTING MEDIUM | SWEENEY, LAURA MARTIN | 2855 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18284102 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED OBJECT OBTAINED THEREFROM | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 3991 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 17758763 | INK, INKJET PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTING MEDIUM | LEE, DORIS L | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
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