Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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.

2
Hard (25%)
6
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
88% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEGUIRE, SEAN M 2 59.9% +29.4%
WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 1 84.9% +10.1%
D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1 68.0% +41.7%
KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S 1 60.0% +14.4%
STRAH, ELI D 1 50.9% +43.0%
LOEWE, ROBERT S 1 83.8% +3.8%
YANG, JAY LEE 1 73.9% +2.2%

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
18275595 AI BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 15d

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
17915749 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT MATERIAL AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT LOEWE, ROBERT S 9d 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

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
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
18275595 AI BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 15d
18035006 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME DEGUIRE, SEAN M 22d
18018005 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT DEGUIRE, SEAN M
18014750 ADHESIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND ADHESIVE FILM STRAH, ELI D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1786 3
2898 1
1723 1
1759 1
1782 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18275595 AI BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WILCZEWSKI, MARY A 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18035006 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Final Rejection 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 §102§112Other Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18023198 Al WIRING MATERIAL KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S 1759 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18018005 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 25, 2023
18014750 ADHESIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND ADHESIVE FILM STRAH, ELI D 1782 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2023
17915749 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT MATERIAL AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT LOEWE, ROBERT S 1766 §102§103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17799769 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT YANG, JAY LEE 1786 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2022

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