Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
RISO KAGAKU Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 5 examiners and 4 art units, indicating separate examiner assignments with some concentration at the art-unit level.
LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the 4 art units to organize technical issues, while treating each examiner interaction as matter-specific.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | 1 | 43.1% | +4.3% |
| GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 1 | 85.9% | +8.4% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.4% | +16.8% |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| ZONG, HELEN | 1 | 79.3% | +8.0% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 56.9% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953747 | SHEET FEEDING METHOD, SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, SHEET FEEDING PROGRAM, AND LEARNING MODEL | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080029 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT, AND APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | — |
| 18830045 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS DISPERSION, AQUEOUS DISPERSION, AND AQUEOUS INK | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830045 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS DISPERSION, AQUEOUS DISPERSION, AND AQUEOUS INK | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18480197 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 2 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19080029 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT, AND APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18953747 | SHEET FEEDING METHOD, SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, SHEET FEEDING PROGRAM, AND LEARNING MODEL | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18830045 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS DISPERSION, AQUEOUS DISPERSION, AND AQUEOUS INK | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 2853 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18615738 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18615746 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18480197 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRISO KAGAKU Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Johnna Ronee Loftis has the most, with 1 of RISO KAGAKU Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
