Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 05, 2026

Showa Denko K.K.

12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
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 (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
12
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
17% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MALLOY, ANNA E 2 45.9% -4.3%
NEWTON, VALERIE N 1 84.0% +5.9%
TRAYWICK, ANDREW PRESTON 1 71.7% +27.2%
DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D 1 44.2% -13.6%
CHU, JOHN S Y 1 77.1% +5.4%
MA, JIAYUE 1
XU, JIANGTIAN 1 65.4% +34.3%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 41.5% +51.6%
CHUNG, ANDREW 1 54.8% +31.9%
BARTLETT, VICTORIA 1 50.8% +31.8%

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
18089620 ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, ROLL, CONNECTED STRUCTURE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CONNECTED STRUCTURE NEWTON, VALERIE N

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17795874 MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR COATING LIQUID AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THERMAL INSULATING MATERIAL XU, JIANGTIAN 223d overdue
17922867 PHOTOSENSITIVE FILM, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE TRAYWICK, ANDREW PRESTON 18d overdue
17768746 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE CHUNG, ANDREW 39d
17791534 RESIN COMPOSITION FOR MOLDING AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT APPARATUS BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB
17766011 RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE BARTLETT, VICTORIA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1737 4
1762 2
2897 1
1788 1
1634 1
2898 1
1744 1
1723 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18089620 ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, ROLL, CONNECTED STRUCTURE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CONNECTED STRUCTURE NEWTON, VALERIE N 2897 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2022
17922867 PHOTOSENSITIVE FILM, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE TRAYWICK, ANDREW PRESTON 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2022
17995408 TEMPORARY PROTECTION FILM FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ENCAPSULATION, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, LEAD FRAME WITH TEMPORARY PROTECTION FILM, TEMPORARILY PROTECTED ENCAPSULATION OBJECT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D 1788 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2022
17913016 PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WIRING BOARD CHU, JOHN S Y 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Sep 20, 2022
17904295 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MA, JIAYUE 1634 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2022
17795874 MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR COATING LIQUID AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THERMAL INSULATING MATERIAL XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 223d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2022
17791534 RESIN COMPOSITION FOR MOLDING AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT APPARATUS BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2022
17768746 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE CHUNG, ANDREW 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Apr 13, 2022
17767655 PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN FILM, RESIST PATTERN FORMING METHOD, AND WIRING PATTERN FORMING METHOD MALLOY, ANNA E 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17766011 RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE BARTLETT, VICTORIA 1744 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 01, 2022
17634927 PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN FILM, MULTILAYER PRINTED WIRING BOARD, SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR MULTILAYER PRINTED WIRING BOARD MALLOY, ANNA E 1737 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Feb 11, 2022
17631857 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1723 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2022

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