Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
36 pending office actions • 23 art units • 35 examiners • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 148 patents granted in the last 365 days
Renesas Electronics Corporation has 37 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 36 examiners and 24 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with more repeated use of technical groups. The modest difference between pending matters and examiners suggests that most examiner assignments are isolated, while art-unit coordination remains important.
MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT is the busiest identified examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can review that repeated assignment for consistent examination themes, but the broader docket calls for centralized technical support and separate response strategies across the art units.
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.
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.
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 | 1 (3%) |
| §103 only | 17 (47%) |
| §102 only | 2 (6%) |
| §112 only | 4 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | 2 | — | — |
| HOUSTON, ADAM D | 1 | 89.0% | -1.7% |
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.5% | +21.6% |
| KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 1 | 79.5% | +24.1% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| GREGORY, BERNARR E | 1 | 90.5% | +6.7% |
| ROJAS, MIDYS | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| SREEVATSA, SREEYA | 1 | 85.9% | +4.4% |
| HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | 1 | 86.3% | -15.3% |
| AGARED, GABRIEL T | 1 | 83.3% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19069518 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 19037233 | RADAR SYSTEM AND METHOD IN RADAR RECEIVER | GREGORY, BERNARR E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921336 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND WRITING METHOD | ROJAS, MIDYS | 42d overdue |
| 18516760 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 55d |
| 19181866 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HOUSTON, ADAM D | — |
| 18918189 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SREEVATSA, SREEYA | — |
| 18910332 | PROBE TESTING APPARATUS, PROBE TESTING SYSTEM AND PROBE CARD | HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | — |
| 18903176 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SWITCHING METHOD AND PROGRAM | AGARED, GABRIEL T | — |
| 18768246 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | — |
| 18666131 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084031 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 19075919 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | — |
| 19069518 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18903176 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SWITCHING METHOD AND PROGRAM | AGARED, GABRIEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 4 |
| 2838 | 3 |
| 2898 | 3 |
| 2858 | 2 |
| 2811 | 2 |
| 2815 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2133 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19181866 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HOUSTON, ADAM D | 2836 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19084031 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19075919 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 2139 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19069518 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19037233 | RADAR SYSTEM AND METHOD IN RADAR RECEIVER | GREGORY, BERNARR E | 3648 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2025 |
| 18921336 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND WRITING METHOD | ROJAS, MIDYS | 2133 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18918189 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SREEVATSA, SREEYA | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18910332 | PROBE TESTING APPARATUS, PROBE TESTING SYSTEM AND PROBE CARD | HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18903176 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SWITCHING METHOD AND PROGRAM | AGARED, GABRIEL T | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18780767 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | VU, VU A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18775102 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FREAL, JOHN BRENDAN | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18771200 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR FORMED ON SOI SUBSTRATE | GARCES, NELSON Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18768246 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18769072 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | JONES, ERIC W | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18767265 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | TECHANE, MUNA A | 2827 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18763910 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | WALL, VINCENT | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18666131 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | 2897 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18664117 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NADAV, ORI | 2811 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18630051 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GEBREMARIAM, SAMUEL A | 2811 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18616917 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GALVAN, ANGELICA ROS ESTIGOY | 2815 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18613754 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | PETERSON, ERIK T | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18544167 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | DINH, PAUL | 2851 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18516760 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 2817 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18511535 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MIYOSHI, JESSE Y | 2898 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18511547 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | AHMAD, KHAJA | 2813 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18510633 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BRECHT, CHARLES MATTHEW | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18484982 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GRAHAM, KRETELIA | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18454433 | POWER CONVERTER CONTROLLER | TORRES-RIVERA, ALEX | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18365447 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18365455 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ONUTA, TIBERIU DAN | 2814 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18359068 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, BATTERY PACK, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND CONTROL PROGRAMS | INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | 2859 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18330648 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18299332 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18182780 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CONTACT STRUCTURES FORMED IN THREE DIFFERENT INSULATING FILMS WITH DIFFERENT DIELECTRIC CONSTANT OR DIFFERENT YOUNG'S MODULUS FROM ONE ANOTHER | MAI, ANH D | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
| 18051935 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BENITEZ ROSARIO, JOSHUA | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17369686 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA-PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIA | MAIDO, MAGGIE T | 2129 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jul 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialRenesas Electronics Corporation has 36 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 23 art units and 35 examiners.
William Robert Mann has the most, with 2 of Renesas Electronics Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
