Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sumitomo Bakelite Co. Ltd.

14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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 (86%)
1
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (71%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% 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
FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 1 80.1% +21.7%
MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 1 64.1% +34.4%
LE, HOA T 1 72.6% +12.6%
PHAM, LEDA T 1 74.6% +11.2%
MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 1 46.7% +80.0%
CHA, CASEY GEORGE 1 0.0% +0.0%
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 1 63.2% +26.4%
CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY 1 31.4% +30.2%
HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 1 70.0% +14.1%
LISTVOYB, GREGORY 1 66.8% +29.6%

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
18837944 INTRAVASCULAR INDWELLING MEDICAL DEVICE FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 89d overdue

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
18691470 BRAIN WAVE DETECTION ELECTRODE, BRAIN WAVE MEASURING DEVICE, AND BRAIN WAVE MEASURING METHOD CHA, CASEY GEORGE 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18837944 INTRAVASCULAR INDWELLING MEDICAL DEVICE FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 89d overdue
18562859 BRAIN WAVE MEASURING DEVICE AND BRAIN WAVE MEASURING METHOD CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY 60d overdue
18691469 BRAIN WAVE DETECTION ELECTRODE, BRAIN WAVE MEASURING DEVICE, AND BRAIN WAVE MEASURING METHOD MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 49d overdue
18719439 FLAME-RETARDANT INSULATING SHEET AND ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC DEVICE LE, HOA T 42d overdue
18280772 CATHETER AND DELIVERY SYSTEM HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 8d overdue
18709226 THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION AND STATOR PHAM, LEDA T 7d
18681523 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 19d
18728100 FLEXIBLE SHEET ELECTRODE, WEARABLE BIOELECTRODE, AND BIOSENSOR MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3794 3
3771 2
1788 1
2834 1
1712 1
3791 1
1765 1
1761 1
3991 1
1767 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18837944 INTRAVASCULAR INDWELLING MEDICAL DEVICE FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18728100 FLEXIBLE SHEET ELECTRODE, WEARABLE BIOELECTRODE, AND BIOSENSOR MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 3794 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jul 11, 2024
18719439 FLAME-RETARDANT INSULATING SHEET AND ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC DEVICE LE, HOA T 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18709226 THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION AND STATOR PHAM, LEDA T 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 10, 2024
18691469 BRAIN WAVE DETECTION ELECTRODE, BRAIN WAVE MEASURING DEVICE, AND BRAIN WAVE MEASURING METHOD MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18691470 BRAIN WAVE DETECTION ELECTRODE, BRAIN WAVE MEASURING DEVICE, AND BRAIN WAVE MEASURING METHOD CHA, CASEY GEORGE 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18681523 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 1712 §112 Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 06, 2024
18562859 BRAIN WAVE MEASURING DEVICE AND BRAIN WAVE MEASURING METHOD CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18280772 CATHETER AND DELIVERY SYSTEM HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 3771 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18036021 PHENOLIC RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME LISTVOYB, GREGORY 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 09, 2023
18251624 THERMALLY-CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED ARTICLE WALKER, AJA ARYANNA 1761 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18024562 WATER SOLUBLE RESOL-TYPE PHENOL RESIN SANDERSON, LEE E 3991 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Mar 03, 2023
17801575 THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, RESIN SHEET, AND METAL BASE SUBSTRATE LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2022
17781734 THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, RESIN SHEET, AND METAL BASE SUBSTRATE MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE 1787 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 02, 2022

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