Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
201 pending office actions • 104 art units • 161 examiners • 0 of 201 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 446 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ricoh Company, Ltd. has 196 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio spans 161 distinct examiners and 104 distinct art units, reflecting broad distribution across the examination system. Counsel should rely on centralized docket controls, consistent issue coding, and technical coordination without assuming uniform examiner treatment.
VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO is the busiest identified examiner, with 9 pending matters. That group provides a meaningful target for examiner research and coordinated response preparation. The portfolio’s broader structure still calls for matter-level review of claim scope, cited art, and applicable art-unit practice.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 36 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. 36 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 | 5 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 23 (11%) |
| §103 only | 76 (38%) |
| §102 only | 13 (6%) |
| §112 only | 5 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (0%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 73 (36%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 9 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| KUIPERS, JENNA ANN | 8 | 70.5% | -13.5% |
| ZHANG, FAN | 3 | 55.3% | +16.4% |
| SULLIVAN IV, CHARLES COLLINS | 3 | 69.3% | +12.0% |
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 2 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
| NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | 2 | 88.4% | +5.2% |
| GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 2 | 72.8% | +14.0% |
| SHENDEROV, ALEXANDER D | 2 | 90.3% | +6.2% |
| FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 2 | 79.1% | +14.3% |
| UHLENHAKE, JASON S | 2 | 87.4% | -2.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170233 | SHEET FOLDER, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | — |
| 19057231 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | UHLENHAKE, JASON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17847318 | SHOCK ABSORBER AND PACKAGING SYSTEM | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 348d overdue |
| 18176741 | BRAIN FUNCTION DETERMINATION APPARATUS, BRAIN FUNCTION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BAVA, JANKI MAHESH | 168d overdue |
| 19172667 | INPUT APPARATUS, INPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INPUT SYSTEM | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 52d overdue |
| 18186290 | IN VITRO GENETIC DISEASE MODEL CELL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 22d overdue |
| 18955969 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONVERSATION SYSTEM | LEE, JENNIFER V | 11d overdue |
| 18590021 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE MEDIUM | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 3d overdue |
| 18819133 | WIRELESS APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | FOLLANSBEE, JOHN A | 1d overdue |
| 19022197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | LEE, PO HAN | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314218 | RESIN PARTICLE AND TONER | SULLIVAN IV, CHARLES COLLINS | 46d |
| 19230508 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| 19222608 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| 19077865 | PRINT POSE ASSESSMENT MECHANISM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | — |
| 19077284 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | — |
| 19053927 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | — |
| 18940864 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE, LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS, LIQUID DISCHARGE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | ZHANG, FAN | — |
| 18823892 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 26 |
| 1734 | 10 |
| 2852 | 6 |
| 2683 | 6 |
| 1737 | 6 |
| 2682 | 5 |
| 3653 | 4 |
| 2681 | 4 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| 3688 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19360244 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 2161 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19342712 | SENSOR DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRESUMING METHOD | SITTA, GRANT | 2622 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19322704 | MOBILE DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME | WOO, ISAAC M | 2163 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19321326 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | DANG, HUNG Q | 2484 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19270662 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGE | SHIBRU, HELEN | 2484 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19263943 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2422 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19240178 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SERVICER DEVICE WHICH TRANSMIT NAME INFORMATION | DALENCOURT, YVES | 2457 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19235995 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19230508 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19222608 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3655 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19132888 | WEARABLE DEVICE AND AROUSAL STATE CONTROL SYSTEM | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | 3792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19128580 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGE METHOD | VO, ANH T N | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19203547 | CONNECTOR MODULE, WRITING UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | BEATTY, ROBERT B | 2852 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19126263 | AROUSAL STATE CONTROL SYSTEM, WEARABLE DEVICE, AND AROUSAL STATE CONTROL METHOD | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19191084 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19188012 | HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | THERRIEN, CARLA J | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19173819 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | FRANKLIN, RICHARD B | 2181 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19172667 | INPUT APPARATUS, INPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INPUT SYSTEM | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19172173 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM CODE FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | ROTH, LAURA K | 2852 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19170233 | SHEET FOLDER, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19090469 | INTERMEDIARY SERVER, SYSTEM, INTERMEDIATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | BAIRD, EDWARD J | 3692 | §101§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19083484 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS | SOLOMON, LISA | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19082171 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SYSTEM | LAZARO, DAVID R | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19077865 | PRINT POSE ASSESSMENT MECHANISM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 2682 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19077103 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS | SHENDEROV, ALEXANDER D | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19077284 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19074483 | SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19069580 | BELT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME | WONG, JOSEPH S | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19108174 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATOR AND HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATOR | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19066532 | MOVABLE DEVICE, IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, HEAD-UP DISPLAY, LASER HEADLAMP, OBJECT RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND EYE TRACKING APPARATUS | PIERCE-WALKER, CHAZERAE AYODELE | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19062502 | IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062448 | CHARACTER STRING DIVIDING APPARATUS, VOCABULARY GROUP GENERATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19061336 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19057231 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | UHLENHAKE, JASON S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19056795 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SCREEN GENERATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | FOSTER, THOMAS JOHN | 2616 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19056801 | MOVABLE DEVICE, IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS, HEAD-UP DISPLAY, LASER HEADLAMP, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND MOVING BODY | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19053927 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19051578 | NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, DOCUMENT-DATA MERGING SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT-DATA MERGING METHOD | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 2681 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19051198 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DETECTOR, BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19050201 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | AZAD, ABUL K | 2656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19039381 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTION SYSTEM, AND LIQUID EJECTION METHOD | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19039264 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19032083 | POINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, POINT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | WASAFF, JOHN S. | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2025 |
| 19026913 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19023289 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS | ZIMMERMANN, JOHN P | 2853 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19022321 | MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19021671 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19022197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | LEE, PO HAN | 3623 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19019591 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1759 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19015689 | RETINAL PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE | PICHLER, MARIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRicoh Company, Ltd. has 201 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 104 art units and 161 examiners.
Alejandro Valencia has the most, with 9 of Ricoh Company, Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
