Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits Inc.

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
80% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, AMOL H 1 85.2% +9.4%
FREAL, JOHN BRENDAN 1 93.1% +8.8%
LEE, PETE T 1 75.0% +10.5%
GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T 1 53.0% +2.0%
TSO, STANLEY 1 76.5% +34.0%

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
18725177 PRINTED WIRING BOARD PATEL, AMOL H 7d
18720856 PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND COIL DEVICE FREAL, JOHN BRENDAN 15d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18712757 SUBSTRATE FOR PRINTED WIRING BOARD LEE, PETE T 37d overdue
18697470 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD TSO, STANLEY 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2847 3
2848 1
1781 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18725177 PRINTED WIRING BOARD PATEL, AMOL H 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18720856 PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND COIL DEVICE FREAL, JOHN BRENDAN 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 17, 2024
18712757 SUBSTRATE FOR PRINTED WIRING BOARD LEE, PETE T 2848 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18703347 DIELECTRIC SHEET, SUBSTRATE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PRINTED WIRING BOARD, AND HIGH FREQUENCY PRINTED WIRING BOARD GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 21, 2024
18697470 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD TSO, STANLEY 2847 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 31, 2024

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