Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tokuyama Corporation

21 pending office actions • 14 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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%)
20
Medium (95%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only18 (86%)
§102 only2 (10%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

20
Life Sciences
95% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TAYLOR, JORDAN W 3 67.1% +40.1%
AHMED, SHAMIM 2 78.5% +22.0%
LI, JUN 1 54.2% +57.2%
PERRIN, JOSEPH L 1 77.3% +22.2%
ALANKO, ANITA KAREN 1 69.6% -17.7%
AHVAZI, BIJAN 1 63.5% +46.7%
SHAH, SAMIR 1 36.1% +34.4%
NGUYEN, CAM N 1 84.8% +12.1%
HARTMANN, GARY S 1 72.5% +18.9%
BOYLE, KARA BRADY 1 61.5% -10.0%

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
18278667 Hexagonal Boron Nitride Aggregated Particles, Hexagonal Boron Nitride Powder, Resin Composition, and Resin Sheet NGUYEN, CAM N 12d

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18023028 CRUSHED POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON LUMPS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME TAYLOR, JORDAN W 222d overdue
17765021 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON, AND POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON TAYLOR, JORDAN W 127d overdue
17774400 TRICHLOROSILANE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND PIPES TAYLOR, JORDAN W 117d overdue
18580012 CLEANING BASKET PERRIN, JOSEPH L 84d overdue
18235120 ETCHING SOLUTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SILICON DEVICE AND METHOD OF TREATING SUBSTRATE USING THE ETCHING SOLUTION AHMED, SHAMIM 42d overdue
19102333 ALUMINUM NITRIDE POWDER AND RESIN COMPOSITION LI, JUN 28d overdue
18394206 SILICON ETCHING SOLUTION, METHOD OF TREATING SILICON SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AHMED, SHAMIM 22d overdue
18278667 Hexagonal Boron Nitride Aggregated Particles, Hexagonal Boron Nitride Powder, Resin Composition, and Resin Sheet NGUYEN, CAM N 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1713 3
1731 3
1738 3
1787 2
1732 1
1711 1
1763 1
1736 1
3671 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19102333 ALUMINUM NITRIDE POWDER AND RESIN COMPOSITION LI, JUN 1732 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2025
18580012 CLEANING BASKET PERRIN, JOSEPH L 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18394206 SILICON ETCHING SOLUTION, METHOD OF TREATING SILICON SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AHMED, SHAMIM 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18515415 Silicon Etching Solution, Method for Treating Substrate, and Method for Manufacturing Silicon Device ALANKO, ANITA KAREN 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18286646 OPTICAL ARTICLE, SPECTACLE LENS AND SPECTACLES AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18279710 PHOTOCHROMIC CURABLE COMPOSITION SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 31, 2023
18278667 Hexagonal Boron Nitride Aggregated Particles, Hexagonal Boron Nitride Powder, Resin Composition, and Resin Sheet NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18235958 GROUND STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF HARTMANN, GARY S 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18235120 ETCHING SOLUTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SILICON DEVICE AND METHOD OF TREATING SUBSTRATE USING THE ETCHING SOLUTION AHMED, SHAMIM 1713 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18274185 CURABLE COMPOSITION CONTAINING CYCLIC MULTIFUNCTIONAL MONOMER BOYLE, KARA BRADY 1766 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18274188 HOLLOW MICROBALLOON RIOJA, MELISSA A 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18272242 Hexagonal Boron Nitride Powder KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18271925 RESIN COMPOSITION, OPTICAL LAMINATE, OPTICAL ARTICLE, LENS AND EYEGLASSES RICE, STEVEN 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18037966 POLYCRYSTAL SILICON ROD, POLYCRYSTAL SILICON ROD PRODUCTION METHOD, AND POLYCRYSTAL SILICON THERMAL PROCESSING METHOD SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending May 19, 2023
18247834 Method of Manufacturing Green Sheet WIESE, NOAH S 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2023
18023028 CRUSHED POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON LUMPS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1738 §103 Final Rejection 222d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
17920921 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HALOGEN OXOACID AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS THEREFOR BAHTA, MEDHANIT W 1692 Other Final Rejection 6d Pending Oct 24, 2022
17912426 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-TREATED SILICA POWDER, RESIN COMPOSITION, AND SLURRY CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 16, 2022
17801884 ELECTROLYSIS ELEMENT FOR ALKALINE WATER ELECTROLYSIS, AND ALKALINE WATER ELECTROLYSIS VESSEL CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2022
17774400 TRICHLOROSILANE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND PIPES TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending May 04, 2022
17765021 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON, AND POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2022

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