Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co. Ltd.

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (5)

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 (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
§102 only1 (9%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1 34.7% +44.0%
MORILLO, JANELL COMBS 1 57.5% +25.9%
WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 1 85.0% +9.9%
SALAMON, PETER A 1 86.3% +5.6%
DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1 59.9% +29.9%
D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1 67.7% +41.5%
KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S 1 59.6% +14.9%
ARORA, AJAY 1 84.2% +5.6%
CHANDHOK, JENNA N 1 52.1% +30.0%
LOEWE, ROBERT S 1 83.8% +3.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18022978 Al WIRING MATERIAL FOR SEMICONDCUTOR DEVICE ARORA, AJAY 72d overdue
17915749 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT MATERIAL AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT LOEWE, ROBERT S 9d overdue
18265258 POLYHYDRIC HYDROXY RESIN, EPOXY RESIN, AND THEIR PRODUCTION METHODS, AND EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF SALAMON, PETER A 14d
18275595 AI BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 15d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17916305 MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT CHANDHOK, JENNA N 111d overdue
18715992 POLYIMIDE FOR SPACECRAFT, POLYIMIDE FILM FOR SPACECRAFT, AND SPACECRAFT MEMBER INCLUDING SAME JACKSON, MONIQUE R 17d overdue
18275599 AI WIRING MATERIAL MORILLO, JANELL COMBS 10d overdue
18032432 Carbon Material for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Catalyst Carriers, Catalyst Layer for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, and Fuel Cell D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 12d
18023198 Al WIRING MATERIAL KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S 14d
18035006 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME DEGUIRE, SEAN M 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1759 2
1786 2
1787 1
1733 1
2898 1
1723 1
2892 1
1789 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18715992 POLYIMIDE FOR SPACECRAFT, POLYIMIDE FILM FOR SPACECRAFT, AND SPACECRAFT MEMBER INCLUDING SAME JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18275599 AI WIRING MATERIAL MORILLO, JANELL COMBS 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023
18275595 AI BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 2898 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18265258 POLYHYDRIC HYDROXY RESIN, EPOXY RESIN, AND THEIR PRODUCTION METHODS, AND EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF SALAMON, PETER A 1759 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18035006 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 02, 2023
18032432 Carbon Material for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Catalyst Carriers, Catalyst Layer for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, and Fuel Cell D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1723 Other Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18023198 Al WIRING MATERIAL KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18022978 Al WIRING MATERIAL FOR SEMICONDCUTOR DEVICE ARORA, AJAY 2892 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2023
17916305 MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT CHANDHOK, JENNA N 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17915749 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT MATERIAL AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT LOEWE, ROBERT S 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17799769 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT YANG, JAY LEE 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2022

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