Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki

22 pending office actions • 15 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
11
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due later (2)

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%)
21
Medium (95%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only17 (77%)
§102 only4 (18%)
§112 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
5
Information Tech
23% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
14% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
59% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 2 81.4% +20.7%
KHAYER, SOHANA T 1 82.6% +20.7%
EMMETT, MADISON B 1 79.8% +11.0%
LE, TIEN MINH 1 68.2% +23.8%
KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 1 68.9% +17.1%
RAMIREZ, ELLIS B 1 80.8% +18.3%
AHMED, MASUD 1 82.4% +13.1%
LUO, DAVID S 1 90.4% +6.5%
COOK, CORTEZ M 1 84.3% +7.9%
JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM 1 87.5% +24.5%

Quick Wins (8)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18750728 ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 51d overdue
18604525 COMMUNICATION USING TIME DIVISION DUPLEX PATTERN JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM 9d overdue
17643724 CONTROL SYSTEM, MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 4d overdue
18985022 ROBOT CONTROL WITH LIMITATION OF CONTROL QUANTITY KHAYER, SOHANA T 7d
18824918 ROBOT, SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RAMIREZ, ELLIS B 14d
18733842 ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM LUO, DAVID S 14d
18810520 ROBOT SYSTEM, CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD AHMED, MASUD 15d
18672013 POWER CONVERSION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD COOK, CORTEZ M 29d

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
18750728 ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 51d overdue
18604525 COMMUNICATION USING TIME DIVISION DUPLEX PATTERN JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM 9d overdue
17643724 CONTROL SYSTEM, MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 4d overdue
18985022 ROBOT CONTROL WITH LIMITATION OF CONTROL QUANTITY KHAYER, SOHANA T 7d
18824918 ROBOT, SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RAMIREZ, ELLIS B 14d
18954615 DETERMINATION OF POSITIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORKPIECE AND ROBOT KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 15d
18810520 ROBOT SYSTEM, CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD AHMED, MASUD 15d
18954718 DETERMINATION OF HOLDING POSITION ON WORKPIECE LE, TIEN MINH 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3657 3
3658 3
3656 3
2846 2
2469 1
3619 1
3628 1
2116 1
3652 1
2835 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18985022 ROBOT CONTROL WITH LIMITATION OF CONTROL QUANTITY KHAYER, SOHANA T 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18959623 ROBOT CONTROL WITH ERROR REDUCTION EMMETT, MADISON B 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 26, 2024
18954718 DETERMINATION OF HOLDING POSITION ON WORKPIECE LE, TIEN MINH 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18954615 DETERMINATION OF POSITIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORKPIECE AND ROBOT KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18824918 ROBOT, SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RAMIREZ, ELLIS B 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 05, 2024
18810520 ROBOT SYSTEM, CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD AHMED, MASUD 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18750728 ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18733842 ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM LUO, DAVID S 2846 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18672013 POWER CONVERSION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD COOK, CORTEZ M 2846 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 23, 2024
18604525 COMMUNICATION USING TIME DIVISION DUPLEX PATTERN JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2024
18440146 ROBOT SYSTEM, CALIBRATION TOOL, AND CALIBRATION METHOD NGUYEN, ROBERT T 3619 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18403118 PRODUCTION SYSTEM, PROGRAM CREATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM CHEN, GEORGE YUNG CHIEH 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2024
18396700 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH ORDERED COMMAND DATA SETS CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW 2116 §112 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18510394 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TRANSFER METHOD MCCLAIN, GERALD 3652 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 15, 2023
18468377 SWITCHING MODULE, POWER CONVERSION DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR POWER CONVERSION DEVICE SMITH, COURTNEY L 2835 §102 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18334897 DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM SPRATT, BEAU D 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18112791 PAINTING SYSTEM AND PAINTING METHOD KURPLE, KARL 1717 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18068534 SIMULATED COLLABORATION OF MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS YOUNG, TIFFANY P 3665 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2022
18062019 DEVICE CONTROL BASED ON EXECUTION COMMAND AND UPDATED ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION YOON, ERIC 2118 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
18048656 ABNORMALITY ESTIMATION SYSTEM, ABNORMALITY ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 21, 2022
17670514 COATING CONTROL APPARATUS, COATING CONTROL SYSTEM, SETTING APPARATUS FOR COATING CONTROL APPARATUS, COATING CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW 3658 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2022
17643724 CONTROL SYSTEM, MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 3656 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2021

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