Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Law Office Of Katsuhiro Arai

9 pending office actions • 6 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
QI, HUA 1 55.4% +23.7%
WHITTINGTON, KENNETH 1 70.9% -16.6%
ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 1 33.3% +40.0%
YOUNG, WILLIAM D 1 53.9% +16.2%
QUINN, NATASHA DEPHENIA 1 93.3% +7.1%
HALL, DEVE V. 1 74.8% +16.7%
ZHANG, RUIYUN 1 70.2% +10.2%
NGUYEN, HA S 1 57.6% -21.9%
KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1 21.4% +36.4%

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
18549866 INK COMPOSITION FOR AQUEOUS INKJET TEXTILE PRINTING QUINN, NATASHA DEPHENIA 29d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17771427 METHOD FOR PRODUCING 2,2'-BIS(CARBOXYMETHOXY)-1,1'-BINAPHTHYL KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 34d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18846047 SYSTEM THAT ASSISTS IN REMEDYING SLEEP PROBLEM ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 146d overdue
18264883 WHITE INK COMPOSITION HALL, DEVE V. 2d overdue
18006864 PHOTOCURABLE INKJET PRINTING INK COMPOSITION ZHANG, RUIYUN 15d
18702728 CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION YOUNG, WILLIAM D 22d
17771427 METHOD FOR PRODUCING 2,2'-BIS(CARBOXYMETHOXY)-1,1'-BINAPHTHYL KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 34d
19243262 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF QUARTZ GLASS CRUCIBLE QI, HUA 76d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17141
39921
36821
17611
28531
17631
17821
17661
16921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19243262 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF QUARTZ GLASS CRUCIBLE Sumco Corporation QI, HUA 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Jun 19, 2025
19174753 MULTI-LAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. WHITTINGTON, KENNETH 3992 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 09, 2025
18846047 SYSTEM THAT ASSISTS IN REMEDYING SLEEP PROBLEM Children & Future Co., Ltd. ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 3682 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2024
18702728 CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION Sakata Inx Corporation YOUNG, WILLIAM D 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 18, 2024
18549866 INK COMPOSITION FOR AQUEOUS INKJET TEXTILE PRINTING Sakata Inx Corporation QUINN, NATASHA DEPHENIA 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18264883 WHITE INK COMPOSITION Sakata Inx Corporation HALL, DEVE V. 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2023
18006864 PHOTOCURABLE INKJET PRINTING INK COMPOSITION Sakata Inx Corporation ZHANG, RUIYUN 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 25, 2023
18006712 TWO-COMPONENT ADHESIVE Cemedine Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, HA S 1766 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jan 24, 2023
17771427 METHOD FOR PRODUCING 2,2'-BIS(CARBOXYMETHOXY)-1,1'-BINAPHTHYL Honshu Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1692 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 22, 2022

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