Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§102 only2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 1 81.3% +22.2%
HINES, LATOSHA D 1 50.7% +22.6%
SONG, MATTHEW J 1 60.4% +14.0%
NGUYEN, CAM N 1 84.8% +12.1%
BRANCH, CATHERINE S 1 85.4% +3.5%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.8% +11.5%
BONAPARTE, AMY C 1 79.8% +23.1%
KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1 21.4% +36.4%
BUTTNER, DAVID J 1 63.9% +4.1%
LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 1 65.1% +31.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18268519 PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TUNGSTEN OXIDE COMPOSITION NGUYEN, CAM N 71d overdue
18248831 STORAGE METHOD AND USAGE METHOD FOR POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID-BASED POLYMER SOLUTION BRANCH, CATHERINE S 13d
19350671 ALUMINOSILICATE-CONTAINING COMPOSITION LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 26d

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
17928506 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EASILY POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 70d overdue

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
18268519 PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TUNGSTEN OXIDE COMPOSITION NGUYEN, CAM N 71d overdue
17928506 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EASILY POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 70d overdue
18682340 POLYALKYLENE-OXIDE-CONTAINING COMPOUND HINES, LATOSHA D 51d overdue
18024818 METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGENATED POLYSILANE COMPOUND PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 37d overdue
17281462 ORGANIC ELECTRIC FIELD LIGHT-EMITTING SHEET FOR USE IN LIGHT COSMETOLOGY OR LIGHT THERAPY LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 4d overdue
19350671 ALUMINOSILICATE-CONTAINING COMPOSITION LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 26d
17928754 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EASILY POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND BONAPARTE, AMY C 33d
18566207 PURIFICATION APPARATUS SONG, MATTHEW J 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1692 3
1731 1
1771 1
1714 1
1736 1
1763 1
1765 1
3796 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19350671 ALUMINOSILICATE-CONTAINING COMPOSITION LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 06, 2025
18682340 POLYALKYLENE-OXIDE-CONTAINING COMPOUND HINES, LATOSHA D 1771 §102 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2024
18566207 PURIFICATION APPARATUS SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18268519 PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TUNGSTEN OXIDE COMPOSITION NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18248831 STORAGE METHOD AND USAGE METHOD FOR POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID-BASED POLYMER SOLUTION BRANCH, CATHERINE S 1763 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 12, 2023
18024818 METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGENATED POLYSILANE COMPOUND PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
17928754 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EASILY POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND BONAPARTE, AMY C 1692 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Nov 30, 2022
17928506 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EASILY POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022
17924188 POLYESTERS PREPARED FROM 1,1-DIESTER-1-ALKENES CONTAINING A STRONG ACID AND STABILIZER BUTTNER, DAVID J 1765 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Nov 09, 2022
17281462 ORGANIC ELECTRIC FIELD LIGHT-EMITTING SHEET FOR USE IN LIGHT COSMETOLOGY OR LIGHT THERAPY LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 3796 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2021

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