Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nippon Paper Industries Co. Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

7
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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DICUS, TAMRA 2 29.6% +21.4%
HIGGINS, GERARD T 1 62.8% +39.3%
FIORITO, JAMES A 1 70.8% +29.1%
KRYLOVA, IRINA 1 36.4% +47.9%
XU, JIANGTIAN 1 65.5% +33.9%
ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C 1 54.1% +61.5%

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
18284747 HARD COATING FILM DICUS, TAMRA 20d
18284713 HARD COAT FILM DICUS, TAMRA 22d

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
18573930 THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MATERIAL HIGGINS, GERARD T 74d overdue
18234466 FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER FIORITO, JAMES A 8d
17998872 DISPERSION COMPOSITION XU, JIANGTIAN 15d
18284747 HARD COATING FILM DICUS, TAMRA 20d
18284713 HARD COAT FILM DICUS, TAMRA 22d
17909117 MATERIAL OF PAPER CONTAINER FOR LIQUID, AND PAPER CONTAINER FOR LIQUID ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C 22d
18018688 MOLDING RESIN MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME KRYLOVA, IRINA 68d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1787 2
1785 1
1731 1
1764 1
1762 1
1782 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18573930 THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MATERIAL HIGGINS, GERARD T 1785 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18284747 HARD COATING FILM DICUS, TAMRA 1787 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18284713 HARD COAT FILM DICUS, TAMRA 1787 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18234466 FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER FIORITO, JAMES A 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 16, 2023
18018688 MOLDING RESIN MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME KRYLOVA, IRINA 1764 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Jan 30, 2023
17998872 DISPERSION COMPOSITION XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17909117 MATERIAL OF PAPER CONTAINER FOR LIQUID, AND PAPER CONTAINER FOR LIQUID ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C 1782 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 02, 2022

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