Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tosoh Corporation

14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
3
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.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 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%)
11
Medium (79%)
2
Easy (14%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (64%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only2 (14%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

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
MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 2 63.0% +24.5%
MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 2 81.0% +1.1%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.8% +11.5%
BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1 59.2% +32.0%
BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 73.5% +39.9%
DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1 65.9% +35.2%
TATESURE, VINCENT 1 45.0% +31.2%
ABBAS, SYED JARAR 1
TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 1 34.8% +49.0%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 42.5% +47.2%

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
18202393 COLORED SINTERED BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 15d
18272756 POWDER COMPOSITION MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 22d

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
18871809 GALLIUM NITRIDE SINTERED BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 67d overdue
18866558 METALLIC SPUTTERING TARGET, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND METALLIC MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 28d overdue
17773705 RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 16d overdue
18027785 TRIAZINE COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE, ELECTRON TRANSPORT MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE, AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 10d overdue
17778122 MEASUREMENT METHOD USING ANTI-IMMUNOCOMPLEX ANTIBODY TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 7d
18019969 CHA-TYPE ZEOLITE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME DAVIS, SHENG HAN 8d
18835842 MATERIAL FOR METAL PATTERNING, HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND, THIN FILM FOR METAL PATTERNING, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING METAL PATTERN PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 14d
18284133 TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE POLYMER SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1794 2
1731 2
1692 1
1799 1
1625 1
1732 1
1786 1
1674 1
1677 1
1762 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18871809 GALLIUM NITRIDE SINTERED BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2024
18866558 METALLIC SPUTTERING TARGET, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND METALLIC MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2024
18835842 MATERIAL FOR METAL PATTERNING, HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND, THIN FILM FOR METAL PATTERNING, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING METAL PATTERN PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18284133 TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE POLYMER SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18272756 POWDER COMPOSITION MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18202393 COLORED SINTERED BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 26, 2023
18027785 TRIAZINE COMPOUND, MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE, ELECTRON TRANSPORT MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE, AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1625 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18019969 CHA-TYPE ZEOLITE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18008106 HEAT-SEALING POLYETHYLENE LAMINATE TATESURE, VINCENT 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 02, 2022
17778593 METHOD FOR DETECTING CANCER BONE METASTASIS AND DETECTION REAGENT ABBAS, SYED JARAR 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 56d Pending May 20, 2022
17778122 MEASUREMENT METHOD USING ANTI-IMMUNOCOMPLEX ANTIBODY TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 1677 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending May 19, 2022
17773705 RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending May 02, 2022
17773347 ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION WEINER, LAURA S 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
16971431 FC-BINDING PROTEIN HAVING IMPROVED ACID STABILITY, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID PROTEIN, AND ANTIBODY-ADSORBING AGENT USING SAID PROTEIN NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 Other Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Aug 20, 2020

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