Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Riso Kagaku Corporation

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
3
Semiconductors
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA 1 69.6% +11.7%
RICHMOND, SCOTT A. 1 87.7% +6.0%
ISLAM, MUHAMMAD S 1 87.8% +9.2%
ZONG, HELEN 1 79.2% +8.2%
QIAO, HUIHONG 1 70.7% +23.2%
LEE, DORIS L 1 58.5% +8.7%
JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1 48.9% +32.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18640083 DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE ISLAM, MUHAMMAD S 2d overdue
18670157 TEXTILE PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEXTILE PRINTED MATERIAL RICHMOND, SCOTT A. 13d

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
18187105 AQUEOUS WHITE INKJET INK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM QIAO, HUIHONG 5d
18980152 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A TRANSFER MEDIUM, AND TRANSFER MEDIUM FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA 19d
18184115 INK SET JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 75d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2853 2
2846 1
2683 1
1763 1
1764 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18980152 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A TRANSFER MEDIUM, AND TRANSFER MEDIUM FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 13, 2024
18670157 TEXTILE PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEXTILE PRINTED MATERIAL RICHMOND, SCOTT A. 2853 §102 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 21, 2024
18640083 DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE ISLAM, MUHAMMAD S 2846 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18615746 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ZONG, HELEN 2683 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18187105 AQUEOUS WHITE INKJET INK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM QIAO, HUIHONG 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18187106 AQUEOUS INKJET INK FOR TEXTILE PRINTING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM LEE, DORIS L 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18184115 INK SET JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1766 §103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Mar 15, 2023

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