Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd.

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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%)
11
Medium (85%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (15%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (69%)
§102 only2 (15%)
No statute on record2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
31% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
7
Semiconductors
54% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 3 86.0% +20.5%
WHITTINGTON, KENNETH 1 70.9% -16.6%
CHAU, LINDA N 1 43.6% +16.0%
FERGUSON, DION 1 86.8% +8.2%
LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA 1 100.0% +0.0%
XIE, KWIN 1 63.9% +32.4%
TRA, ANH QUAN 1 72.7% +5.5%
MORALES, RICARDO D 1 81.4% +16.7%
SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S 1 77.6% +20.2%
NGUYEN, HA S 1 57.6% -21.9%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18497370 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COIL COMPONENT MORALES, RICARDO D 31d overdue
18611974 MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 30d overdue
18743981 LAMINATED CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CERAMIC CAPACITOR MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 1d overdue
18806106 MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND CIRCUIT BOARD FERGUSON, DION 8d
18617235 MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 8d
18679359 DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA 70d

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
18580398 DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE XIE, KWIN 98d overdue
18497370 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COIL COMPONENT MORALES, RICARDO D 31d overdue
18611974 MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 30d overdue
18028093 SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S 2d overdue
18743981 LAMINATED CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CERAMIC CAPACITOR MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 1d overdue
18617235 MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 8d
18945170 MAGNETIC BASE BODY CONTAINING METAL MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND COIL COMPONENT INCLUDING THE SAME CHAU, LINDA N 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2848 3
2847 2
3992 1
1785 1
2626 1
2843 1
1738 1
1723 1
1766 1
2831 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19174753 MULTI-LAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME WHITTINGTON, KENNETH 3992 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 09, 2025
18945170 MAGNETIC BASE BODY CONTAINING METAL MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND COIL COMPONENT INCLUDING THE SAME CHAU, LINDA N 1785 Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 12, 2024
18806106 MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND CIRCUIT BOARD FERGUSON, DION 2848 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 15, 2024
18743981 LAMINATED CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CERAMIC CAPACITOR MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18679359 DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA 2848 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending May 30, 2024
18617235 MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18611974 MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P 2848 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18580398 DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE XIE, KWIN 2626 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2024
18507700 ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE, FILTER, AND MULTIPLEXER TRA, ANH QUAN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18497370 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COIL COMPONENT MORALES, RICARDO D 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18028093 SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023
18185801 COIL COMPONENT NGUYEN, HA S 1766 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
17987216 PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM RESONATOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022

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