Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sun Chemical Corporation

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)

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%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
88% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, TRACY 2 54.9% +28.0%
RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1 73.0% +29.6%
MARKOFF, ALEXANDER 1 48.8% +32.1%
MURATA, AUSTIN 1 60.3% +20.5%
FIDLER, SHELBY LEE 1 79.0% +14.7%
PALLAY, MICHAEL B 1 55.8% +34.8%
ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 1 45.1% +38.0%

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18816496 WATER-BASED PRIMERS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 149d overdue
17766693 UV INKJET COMPOSITIONS FIDLER, SHELBY LEE 66d overdue
18027813 A UV PRINTING PROCESS MURATA, AUSTIN 51d overdue
18077301 COLORED COSMETIC SOLID DISPERSIONS LIU, TRACY 43d overdue
18119957 TiO2-FREE PIGMENT LIU, TRACY 26d overdue
15746863 DISPERSANT EFFECTS ON ALUMINUM PIGMENTS ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 19d overdue
18727610 PROCESS FOR REMOVING UV CURABLE PRINTING INKS MARKOFF, ALEXANDER 18d overdue
17195819 PIGMENT COMPOSITION FOR SEED COATINGS PALLAY, MICHAEL B 15d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1712 2
1614 2
1711 1
2853 1
1617 1
1731 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18816496 WATER-BASED PRIMERS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Aug 27, 2024
18727610 PROCESS FOR REMOVING UV CURABLE PRINTING INKS MARKOFF, ALEXANDER 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18027813 A UV PRINTING PROCESS MURATA, AUSTIN 1712 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18119957 TiO2-FREE PIGMENT LIU, TRACY 1614 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2023
18077301 COLORED COSMETIC SOLID DISPERSIONS LIU, TRACY 1614 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17766693 UV INKJET COMPOSITIONS FIDLER, SHELBY LEE 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2022
17195819 PIGMENT COMPOSITION FOR SEED COATINGS PALLAY, MICHAEL B 1617 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2021
15746863 DISPERSANT EFFECTS ON ALUMINUM PIGMENTS ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2018

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