Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
16 pending office actions • 14 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days
KEYENCE Corporation has 20 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 19 examiners and 17 art units, indicating broad distribution across examination personnel and technical groups.
TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The small concentration at that examiner means the docket requires broader coordination. Art-unit grouping can help identify technical patterns, while the nearly equivalent examiner footprint calls for individualized review of prosecution history, claim amendments, and response practice.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (19%) |
| §103 only | 6 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (19%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| RAMETTA, JULIA THERESE | 1 | — | — |
| WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 1 | 50.0% | +58.3% |
| CARTER, AARON W | 1 | 85.0% | +8.9% |
| ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 1 | 76.9% | +21.6% |
| VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | 1 | 76.4% | +16.2% |
| THOMPSON, LESLIE J. | 1 | 68.4% | +9.4% |
| BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.5% | +34.3% |
| TRAN, TAM T | 1 | 81.1% | +11.6% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.7% | +1.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887064 | INSPECTION SETTING DEVICE | TRAN, TAM T | — |
| 18785058 | LEVEL METER | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912643 | IMAGE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | 34d |
| 18986869 | COLONY COUNTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | CARTER, AARON W | — |
| 18785075 | LEVEL METER | HUANG, DAVID Z | — |
| 18222489 | REVERSE ENGINEERING SUPPORT APPARATUS | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | — |
| 18222490 | REVERSE ENGINEERING SUPPORT APPARATUS | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | — |
| 17688968 | ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ANALYSIS METHOD | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912643 | IMAGE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | 34d |
| 19032147 | CODE GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND CODE GENERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | — |
| 18985152 | CONTROLLER AND CODE READER SYSTEM | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | — |
| 18894046 | SCENARIO MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18887064 | INSPECTION SETTING DEVICE | TRAN, TAM T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 2 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 2174 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049064 | IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE | RAMETTA, JULIA THERESE | 2669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19032147 | CODE GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND CODE GENERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 18986869 | COLONY COUNTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | CARTER, AARON W | 2661 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18985152 | CONTROLLER AND CODE READER SYSTEM | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 2876 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18912643 | IMAGE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | 2481 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18911856 | INK JET PRINTER | THOMPSON, LESLIE J. | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18894046 | SCENARIO MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18887064 | INSPECTION SETTING DEVICE | TRAN, TAM T | 2174 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18785058 | LEVEL METER | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785075 | LEVEL METER | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18780568 | OPTICAL DISPLACEMENT METER | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18411085 | PROCESS QUANTITY MEASUREMENT DEVICE | YOON, ERIC | 2118 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18222489 | REVERSE ENGINEERING SUPPORT APPARATUS | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 2188 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18222490 | REVERSE ENGINEERING SUPPORT APPARATUS | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18221407 | COLONY COUNTING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1798 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 17688968 | ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ANALYSIS METHOD | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1684 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKEYENCE Corporation has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 14 art units and 15 examiners.
Abrham Alehegn Tamiru has the most, with 2 of KEYENCE Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
