Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Otsuka Chemical Co. Ltd.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only4 (80%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JACOB, AJITH 1 79.0% +4.2%
FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1 44.4% +2.3%
HANSEN, JARED A 1 54.4% +44.4%
NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1 56.3% +28.9%
GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1 35.6% +46.3%

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
19098406 CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM JACOB, AJITH 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18019391 FRICTION ADJUSTING MATERIAL, FRICTION MATERIAL COMPOSITION, FRICTION MATERIAL, AND FRICTION MEMBER NERANGIS, VICKEY M 28d overdue
17924232 MODELED OBJECT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 26d overdue
18039854 TITANIC ACID-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL HANSEN, JARED A 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2161 1
1749 1
1723 1
1763 1
1754 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19098406 CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM JACOB, AJITH 2161 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2025
18574520 RUBBER COMPOSITION AND TIRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18039854 TITANIC ACID-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL HANSEN, JARED A 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18019391 FRICTION ADJUSTING MATERIAL, FRICTION MATERIAL COMPOSITION, FRICTION MATERIAL, AND FRICTION MEMBER NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023
17924232 MODELED OBJECT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022

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