Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

18 pending office actions • 11 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)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%)
15
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (83%)
No statute on record3 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
61% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
7
Semiconductors
39% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAVARIAS, ARNEL C 2 79.6% -0.7%
HORGER, KIM S. 1 70.4% +19.7%
YANG, ZHEREN J 1 57.4% +53.4%
THOMPSON, CAMIE S 1 73.3% +10.5%
GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA 1 40.3% +35.9%
KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1 60.7% +28.8%
TA, THO DAC 1 86.5% +15.1%
NELSON, MICHAEL B 1 21.4% +37.0%
PAN, JIA X 1 72.4% +36.9%
EWALD, MARIA VERONICA 1 58.6% +6.8%

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
18572222 VEHICULAR GLASS MODULE TA, THO DAC 22d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18569088 ANTIFOG-FILM-ATTACHED GLASS ARTICLE AND COATING LIQUID FOR FORMING ANTIFOG FILM NELSON, MICHAEL B 19d

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
18573707 WINDSHIELD KHATRI, PRASHANT J 49d overdue
18714986 GLASS FIBER STRAND HORGER, KIM S. 3d overdue
18575444 WINDSHIELD GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA 3d overdue
18715359 GLASS FIBER THOMPSON, CAMIE S 1d overdue
18561665 LIGHT ABSORBER, LIGHT-ABSORBER-ATTACHED ARTICLE, AND LIGHT-ABSORBING COMPOSITION PAN, JIA X 5d
18741484 GLASS UNIT YANG, ZHEREN J 15d
18569088 ANTIFOG-FILM-ATTACHED GLASS ARTICLE AND COATING LIQUID FOR FORMING ANTIFOG FILM NELSON, MICHAEL B 19d
18572222 VEHICULAR GLASS MODULE TA, THO DAC 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1783 4
2871 3
1781 2
2872 2
1784 1
1786 1
2834 1
1787 1
1731 1
1759 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18714986 GLASS FIBER STRAND HORGER, KIM S. 1784 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2024
18741484 GLASS UNIT YANG, ZHEREN J 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18715359 GLASS FIBER THOMPSON, CAMIE S 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18575444 WINDSHIELD GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18573707 WINDSHIELD KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18572222 VEHICULAR GLASS MODULE TA, THO DAC 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18569088 ANTIFOG-FILM-ATTACHED GLASS ARTICLE AND COATING LIQUID FOR FORMING ANTIFOG FILM NELSON, MICHAEL B 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18568507 ANTIFOG-FILM-ATTACHED TRANSPARENT ARTICLE FOR SECURITY CAMERAS AND SECURITY CAMERA LAVARIAS, ARNEL C 2872 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18568203 ANTIFOG-FILM-ATTACHED GLASS ARTICLE FOR SECURITY CAMERAS, SECURITY CAMERA, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANTIFOG-FILM-ATTACHED GLASS ARTICLE FOR SECURITY CAMERAS LAVARIAS, ARNEL C 2872 Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2023
18561665 LIGHT ABSORBER, LIGHT-ABSORBER-ATTACHED ARTICLE, AND LIGHT-ABSORBING COMPOSITION PAN, JIA X 2871 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18279127 DEPRESSURIZED MULTILAYERED GLASS PANEL EWALD, MARIA VERONICA 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 28, 2023
18264185 GLASS COMPOSITION, GLASS FILLER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 1731 Other Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18001447 GLASS COMPOSITION FOR CHEMICAL STRENGTHENING AND CHEMICALLY STRENGTHENED GLASS ARTICLE MAYES, MELVIN C 1759 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2022
17922155 DISPLAY DEVICE VU, PHU 2871 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17906245 ANTIGLARE FILM-ATTACHED TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE LAMB II, CHRISTOPHER A 2882 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Sep 13, 2022
17782262 AUTOMOBILE LAMINATED GLASS CROCKETT, RYAN M 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jun 03, 2022
17776694 GLASS BODY AUER, LAURA A 1783 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending May 13, 2022
17428724 GLASS UNIT UTT, ETHAN A 1783 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2021

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