Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
186 pending office actions • 63 art units • 124 examiners • 0 of 186 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 208 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shin Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
MALLOY, ANNA E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile is fully concentrated in a single examination setting, so prosecution decisions can be directed to the specific examiner and art unit record without needing a broader coordination framework.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 47 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 47 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 85 (46%) |
| §102 only | 14 (8%) |
| §112 only | 8 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 15 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 60 (32%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 9 | 55.5% | +34.1% |
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 7 | 79.4% | +16.1% |
| CHU, JOHN S Y | 7 | 76.8% | +5.4% |
| CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 5 | 72.0% | +20.4% |
| WALKE, AMANDA C | 5 | 88.5% | +8.6% |
| EOFF, ANCA | 4 | 80.1% | +10.8% |
| LEE, ALEXANDER N | 4 | 75.4% | +11.0% |
| MOORE, MARGARET G | 4 | 68.1% | +15.6% |
| MALLOY, ANNA E | 4 | 46.7% | -4.0% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 3 | 21.5% | +37.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18229863 | ONIUM SALT, CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED RESIST COMPOSITION, AND PATTERNING PROCESS | WALKE, AMANDA C | 5d |
| 18597253 | ONIUM SALT, CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED POSITIVE RESIST COMPOSITION, AND RESIST PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | EOFF, ANCA | — |
| 18440742 | Compound For Forming Metal-Containing Film, Composition For Forming Metal-Containing Film, And Patterning Process | EOFF, ANCA | — |
| 18383101 | AMINE COMPOUND, CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERNING PROCESS | WALKE, AMANDA C | — |
| 18380970 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | WALKE, AMANDA C | — |
| 18380454 | Positive Resist Material And Patterning Process | EOFF, ANCA | — |
| 18370555 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | WALKE, AMANDA C | — |
| 18367157 | ONIUM SALT TYPE MONOMER, POLYMER, CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED RESIST COMPOSITION, AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | WALKE, AMANDA C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554444 | POLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION, ADHESIVE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ADHESIVE | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 43d overdue |
| 18322126 | CARBON BLACK DISPERSION COMPOSITION FOR BATTERY, MIXTURE PASTE FOR POSITIVE ELECTRODE, POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY | SON, TAEYOUNG | 32d overdue |
| 18276477 | ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | 6d |
| 18272620 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KIM, JAY C | 14d |
| 17636471 | CURABLE FLUOROPOLYETHER ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL PARTS | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 16d |
| 18349633 | Resist Material And Patterning Process | MALLOY, ANNA E | 22d |
| 18576185 | PASTE-LIKE SILICONE COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND COSMETICS | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 26d |
| 18234049 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 28d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554444 | POLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION, ADHESIVE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ADHESIVE | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 43d overdue |
| 18309793 | Negative Photosensitive Resin Composition, Patterning Process, Interlayer Insulating Film, Surface Protection Film, And Electronic Component | LEE, ALEXANDER N | 42d overdue |
| 18205127 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 37d overdue |
| 18272440 | OIL-BLEEDING SILICONE RUBBER COMPOSITION | MOORE, MARGARET G | 30d overdue |
| 18013311 | TWO-COMPONENT TYPE ROOM TEMPERATURE FAST-CURING ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT THEREOF AND ARTICLE | MOORE, MARGARET G | 26d overdue |
| 18276477 | ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | 6d |
| 18115095 | CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERNING PROCESS | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 7d |
| 17603932 | Agglutinant for Pellicle, Pellicle, Exposure Original Plate with Pellicle, Method for Producing Semiconductor Device, Method for Producing Liquid Crystal Display Board, Method for Regenerating Exposure Original Plate, and Peeling Residue Reduction Method | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1737 | 35 |
| 1765 | 14 |
| 1722 | 8 |
| 1787 | 7 |
| 1762 | 7 |
| 1767 | 6 |
| 1766 | 5 |
| 3794 | 4 |
| 2817 | 4 |
| 1615 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19319333 | ORGANOSILOXANE COMPOUND AND SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT | SANDERSON, LEE E | 3991 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19133467 | CONTAINER FOR STORING ADDITION-CURING LIQUID SILICONE COMPOSITION | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19202120 | BIO-ELECTRODE COMPOSITION, BIO-ELECTRODE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BIO-ELECTRODE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19111702 | SILICONE PARTICLES FOR COSMETICS, AND COSMETICS | WAX, ROBERT A | 1615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19073423 | QUARTZ GLASS ROD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19103724 | COSMETIC PREPARATION CONTAINING CROSSLINKED ORGANIC SILICON RESIN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LI, WENHAN | 1614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19101829 | SOLAR CELL ELEMENT COATING COMPOSITION, AND SOLAR CELL MODULE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18879518 | TWO-COMPONENT TYPE ROOM TEMPERATURE RAPID-CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE | FEELY, MICHAEL J | 1766 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18879145 | DISPERSION AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 1615 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18979490 | Imprint Device and Imprint Method | KHARE, ATUL P | 1742 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18870573 | ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITION AND MEMBER HAVING SAME ON SURFACE | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1615 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18949532 | Patterning Process | CARTER, JONATHAN LANGDON | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18866369 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF PURIFIED AMINOSILANOL COMPOUND AND AMINOSILOXANE COMPOUND, AND COMPOSITION FOR ETCHING | DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18864177 | FLUOROPOLYETHER-BASED CURABLE COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT, AND ELECTRIC/ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18940918 | OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18932752 | HEAT-CURABLE MALEIMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18862010 | GLASS CLOTH TREATMENT LIQUID AND SURFACE TREATED GLASS CLOTH | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18929741 | INSULATING COATING MATERIAL FOR COATING ELECTRIC WIRE, INSULATED WIRE, COIL, AND ELECTRIC OR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18930238 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION COATED WITH SOLVENT-FREE COATING MATERIAL | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18925680 | YTTRIUM FLUORIDE SPRAYED COATING, SPRAY MATERIAL THEREFOR, AND CORROSION RESISTANT COATING INCLUDING SPRAYED COATING | AUER, LAURA A | 1783 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18911657 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING RARE EARTH SINTERED MAGNET | DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN | 1713 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18853795 | FILM FORMING METHOD, FILM FORMING APPARATUS, AND LAMINATE | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 2898 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18852338 | COSMETIC | MAEWALL, SNIGDHA | 1612 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18846320 | SURFACTANT AND COSMETIC | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18836152 | UNDERLYING SUBSTRATE, SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND LAMINATE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEM | SAMPLE, DAVID R | 1784 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18789287 | RESIN COMPOSITION | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18833659 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVE STACKED INSULATIVE SUBSTRATE | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18770842 | COMPOSITION FOR SOLID DISPERSION, SOLID DISPERSION, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SOLID DISPERSION | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18726584 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND NEGATIVE ELECTRODE | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18725253 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS AND FILM FORMING METHOD | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18724824 | HIGH-CHARACTERISTIC EPITAXIAL GROWTH SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | SAMPLE, DAVID R | 1784 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18724431 | COATING MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR, AND SECONDARY BATTERY | FRAZIER, KELVIN MITCHELL | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18719276 | FLUORINE-CONTAINING ACTIVE ENERGY RAY-CURABLE COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, AND ARTICLE | ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18676967 | HALOALKYL ALKOXYMETHYL ETHER COMPOUND, AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING 13,15-DIMETHYLHEPTACOSANE THEREFROM AND FOR PREPARING SYNTHETIC INTERMEDIATE THEREFOR | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1692 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18713771 | COMPOSITION CONTAINING ORGANOSILICON COMPOUND | BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18702880 | POLYORGANOSILOXANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18702994 | PAINT COMPOSITION, COATED ARTICLE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING CURED FILM | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18635945 | Resist Material, Resist Composition, And Patterning Process | CHU, JOHN S Y | 1737 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18701361 | SEED SUBSTRATE FOR EPITAXIAL GROWTH AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | 2899 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18634542 | SLURRY FOR SUSPENSION PLASMA SPRAYING, METHOD FOR FORMING RARE EARTH ACID FLUORIDE SPRAYED FILM, AND SPRAYING MEMBER | HUANG, CHENG YUAN | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18700011 | SILICONE-MODIFIED PULLULAN, A COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME, AND A COSMETIC | SHIAO, YIH-HORNG | 1691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18631187 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR ENCAPSULATION AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FANG, SHANE | 1766 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18626972 | ONIUM SALT, RESIST COMPOSITION, AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | FRASER, STEWART A | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18696729 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYCLIC SILAZANE COMPOUND | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18696980 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING A BONDED WAFER | MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18617769 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18575346 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVE SILICONE COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18694106 | HYDROXYALKYL GROUP-CONTAINING POLYSILOXANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | 1764 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18610591 | CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED NEGATIVE RESIST COMPOSITION AND RESIST PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 1737 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18611446 | Bio-Electrode Composition, Bio-Electrode, And Method For Manufacturing The Same | ZOTOV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVIC | 1765 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. has 186 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 63 art units and 124 examiners.
Martin J Angebranndt has the most, with 9 of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
