Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
16 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Renishaw PLC has 15 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio spans 12 examiners and 8 art units, creating repeated examiner and art-unit assignments within a multi-group technical docket.
WILLIAMS, DON J is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration provides a useful point for comparing claim strategies and recurring objections, while the remaining actions require coordination across other examiners. The eight art units also support structured tracking of classification-specific treatment for semiconductor, circuit, and optics inventions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (6%) |
| §103 only | 2 (12%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| §112 only | 3 (19%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, DON J | 3 | 84.0% | +5.1% |
| GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 2 | 82.3% | +14.9% |
| KO, TONY | 1 | 87.8% | +2.8% |
| CAMERON, ATTICUS A | 1 | 78.4% | +10.9% |
| HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 1 | 85.5% | +11.9% |
| CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 1 | 60.0% | +38.9% |
| HINZE, LEO T | 1 | 52.9% | +10.2% |
| BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 1 | 73.6% | +18.2% |
| BENNETT, GEORGE B | 1 | 79.6% | +10.8% |
| HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 1 | 65.3% | +11.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19139718 | ENCODER APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, DON J | — |
| 19139764 | ENCODER APPARATUS | KO, TONY | — |
| 19139464 | ENCODER APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, DON J | — |
| 18848166 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A ROTARY SCALE MEMBER | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
| 18690648 | MEASUREMENT STRUT | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18016726 | MEASUREMENT METHOD | COURSON, TANIA C | 104d overdue |
| 18039864 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTANCE METROLOGY | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 6d |
| 18779672 | POSITION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 20d |
| 19139745 | ENCODER APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, DON J | — |
| 18996128 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | CAMERON, ATTICUS A | — |
| 18844554 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | — |
| 18835098 | AN ULTRASOUND INSPECTION PROBE FOR A MACHINE TOOL | HINZE, LEO T | — |
| 17431406 | ULTRASOUND METHOD AND APPARATUS | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039864 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTANCE METROLOGY | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 6d |
| 18838759 | OPTICAL APPARATUS | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 9d |
| 18779672 | POSITION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 20d |
| 18996128 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | CAMERON, ATTICUS A | — |
| 18848166 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A ROTARY SCALE MEMBER | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
| 18844554 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | — |
| 18835098 | AN ULTRASOUND INSPECTION PROBE FOR A MACHINE TOOL | HINZE, LEO T | — |
| 18778558 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | BENNETT, GEORGE B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2878 | 5 |
| 2855 | 5 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19139718 | ENCODER APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, DON J | 2878 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19139764 | ENCODER APPARATUS | KO, TONY | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19139745 | ENCODER APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, DON J | 2878 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19139464 | ENCODER APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, DON J | 2878 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 18996128 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | CAMERON, ATTICUS A | 3658 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18848166 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A ROTARY SCALE MEMBER | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18844554 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18838759 | OPTICAL APPARATUS | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18835098 | AN ULTRASOUND INSPECTION PROBE FOR A MACHINE TOOL | HINZE, LEO T | 2853 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18779672 | POSITION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 2878 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18778558 | COORDINATE POSITIONING MACHINE | BENNETT, GEORGE B | 2855 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18690648 | MEASUREMENT STRUT | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18039864 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTANCE METROLOGY | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 3647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18016726 | MEASUREMENT METHOD | COURSON, TANIA C | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 104d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 17431406 | ULTRASOUND METHOD AND APPARATUS | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2021 |
| 16327077 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS | LIANG, LEONARD S | 2857 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialRenishaw PLC has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 13 examiners.
Don J Williams has the most, with 3 of Renishaw PLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
