Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
163 pending office actions • 74 art units • 138 examiners • 0 of 163 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 187 patents granted in the last 365 days
Konica Minolta Inc. has 163 pending office actions in Communications. The profile identifies 138 distinct examiners and 74 distinct art units, demonstrating extensive distribution across examination personnel and organizational units. This structure suggests that prosecution management requires more than monitoring a small group of recurring examiners.
HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J is the busiest identified examiner, with 4 pending matters. The limited concentration at that examiner, viewed against the wider assignment pattern, supports a portfolio process built around centralized status control and repeatable technical review. Counsel may also use art-unit and examiner histories to tailor responses, while preserving a coherent position on claim scope across the communications portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 41 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 41 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 3 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 29 (18%) |
| §103 only | 62 (38%) |
| §102 only | 15 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 49 (30%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 4 | 72.8% | +14.0% |
| HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 3 | 75.3% | +2.8% |
| CATO, MIYA J | 3 | 76.8% | +12.5% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 3 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
| SABAH, HARIS | 3 | 77.2% | +15.4% |
| SEILER, GRANT STEVEN | 3 | 54.1% | +6.9% |
| AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2 | 80.1% | +4.6% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2 | 83.9% | +7.3% |
| MALEVIC, DJURA | 2 | 78.1% | +10.1% |
| LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 2 | 84.2% | +3.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216901 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678435 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DATA ESTIMATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 149d overdue |
| 19021726 | IMAGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 56d overdue |
| 18776420 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS | LI, JOHN DENNY | 45d overdue |
| 18613668 | MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | 30d overdue |
| 18671271 | CAPABILITY DETERMINATION METHOD, CAPABILITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS, CAPABILITY DETERMINATION PROGRAM, AND PHANTOM | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | 4d overdue |
| 18762092 | MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGING CONTROL APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 6d |
| 18202746 | CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | PADOT, TIMOTHY | 13d |
| 18922843 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | DINH, KHANH Q | 14d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509391 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 8d overdue |
| 18762173 | PHOTOMETRIC APPARATUS, CALIBRATION SYSTEM, CALIBRATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | MALEVIC, DJURA | 16d |
| 19171495 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS | MALEVIC, DJURA | — |
| 19021956 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, PRINTING SUPPORT APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTING SUPPORT METHOD | CATO, MIYA J | — |
| 19012123 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
| 18975368 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | — |
| 18971485 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTER, COLORIMETER, COLOR MATERIAL STABILIZATION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SABAH, HARIS | — |
| 18952083 | IMAGE INSPECTION SYSTEM, INSPECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SABAH, HARIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2682 | 14 |
| 2852 | 9 |
| 2884 | 9 |
| 3798 | 8 |
| 2853 | 8 |
| 3797 | 7 |
| 2683 | 6 |
| 2681 | 5 |
| 1737 | 5 |
| 2671 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19403815 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2025 |
| 19394047 | CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19384273 | STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | VILLALUNA, ERIKA J | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19247954 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION DEVICE, ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19236305 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19225464 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | THERRIEN, CARLA J | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19223713 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND TERMINAL DEVICE | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19219130 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM, AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19216901 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19216937 | CALIBRATION DEVICE | HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19214816 | ULTRASONIC IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ULTRASONIC IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM, ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD | FRITH, SEAN A | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19212305 | SHEET CONVEYING MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19206907 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM EJECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 2852 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19203750 | RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING METHOD | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19127262 | SPECTROSCOPIC DEVICE AND WAVELENGTH CORRECTION METHOD | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19196180 | RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING METHOD | ARYAL, AAYUSH | 2435 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19184357 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS OF MOBILE TYPE, PROGRAM, AND MOVING IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19181675 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 3657 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19179186 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM | ANSARI, AZAM A | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19171495 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18848923 | PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19088941 | MEDICAL TESTING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL TESTING METHOD | WEBB, JESSICA MARIE | 3683 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19082778 | CUSHIONING MATERIAL | RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, MARCOS JAVIER | 3735 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19080377 | DYNAMIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS, DYNAMIC ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19080149 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, CLAIRE X | 1774 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19078672 | MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19069424 | RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE, RADIATION DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM, AND MOBILE RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM | THOMAS, COURTNEY D | 2884 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19065108 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | WEI, XIAOMING | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19063567 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | ELEY, JESSICA L | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19055664 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS | UHLENHAKE, JASON S | 2853 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19043781 | IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 2677 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19044147 | FOOD INSPECTION APPARATUS | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19041419 | LAMINATING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19028025 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS PROGRAM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 2665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025009 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 2669 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19021726 | IMAGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19021956 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, PRINTING SUPPORT APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTING SUPPORT METHOD | CATO, MIYA J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19020310 | IMAGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 2661 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19019026 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM | YUN, JURIE | 2884 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18993678 | RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | HSU, JONI | 2611 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19014858 | OPERATION INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND OPERATION INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD | YIP, KENT | 2681 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19012123 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 2682 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18879510 | PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 2671 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18982217 | IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INSPECTION PROGRAM | HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI | 2672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18982227 | IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INSPECTION PROGRAM | DUONG, JOHNNYKHOI BAO | 2667 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18976556 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18977410 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BAKER, CHARLOTTE M | 2664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18873398 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, AND IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 2674 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18975368 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18974988 | LIQUID FEEDING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR LIQUID FEEDING APPARATUS | LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 2853 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKonica Minolta Inc. has 163 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 74 art units and 138 examiners.
Juan M Guillermety has the most, with 4 of Konica Minolta Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
