Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.

14 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

3
Hard (21%)
11
Medium (79%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (57%)
§102 only3 (21%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
29% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
7
Business / Other
50% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS 2 78.1% +17.3%
COMBER, KEVIN J 1 82.6% +11.8%
NGUYEN, DANNY 1 90.2% +6.4%
TSO, STANLEY 1 75.9% +33.2%
CHEN, JACK S J 1 76.6% +5.2%
SABUR, ALIA 1 74.3% +6.5%
ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E 1 66.3% +18.1%
NGUYEN, KHIEM D 1 85.8% +12.5%
TRAN, BENJAMIN HOANG 1
HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 1 65.0% +46.7%

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
18943163 CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE COMBER, KEVIN J
18671520 WIRING BOARD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND WIRING BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD NGUYEN, KHIEM D

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18940314 ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE NGUYEN, DANNY
18822905 WIRING BOARD TSO, STANLEY
18321198 HEAT CONDUCTOR GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18629124 WIRING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WIRING SUBSTRATE BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS 35d overdue
18408935 MYOELECTRIC SENSOR HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 13d
18943163 CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE COMBER, KEVIN J
18822905 WIRING BOARD TSO, STANLEY
18819430 WIRING BOARD AND LAMINATED WIRING BOARD BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS
18782907 LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E
18671520 WIRING BOARD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND WIRING BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD NGUYEN, KHIEM D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2847 2
3763 1
3791 1
2818 1
2812 1
1781 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18943163 CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE COMBER, KEVIN J §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 11, 2024
18940314 ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE NGUYEN, DANNY §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18822905 WIRING BOARD TSO, STANLEY 2847 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 03, 2024
18819430 WIRING BOARD AND LAMINATED WIRING BOARD BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2024
18798016 WIRING BOARD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CHEN, JACK S J §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18793304 LEAD FRAME, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND LEAD FRAME MANUFACTURING METHOD SABUR, ALIA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 02, 2024
18782907 LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E 3763 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 24, 2024
18671520 WIRING BOARD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND WIRING BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD NGUYEN, KHIEM D §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18629124 WIRING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WIRING SUBSTRATE BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS 2847 §102 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18612186 LEAD FRAME AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TRAN, BENJAMIN HOANG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2024
18408935 MYOELECTRIC SENSOR HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jan 10, 2024
18489288 INTERCONNECT SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS TURNER, BRIAN 2818 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 18, 2023
18460959 HEAT SPREADER AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D 2812 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18321198 HEAT CONDUCTOR GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T 1781 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2023

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