Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 8 examiners across 7 art units, indicating separate examiner treatment with limited repetition in the technical examination groups.
ELLIS, SUEZU Y is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distributed record supports application-specific prosecution, supplemented by consistent treatment of related semiconductor, circuit, and optical concepts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 1 | 76.9% | +21.6% |
| TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 1 | 88.4% | +7.1% |
| MASUD, ROKIB | 1 | 68.9% | +0.3% |
| PHAN, THO GIA | 1 | 91.4% | +4.0% |
| NELSON, FREDA ANN | 1 | 42.8% | +7.7% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.1% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19101197 | RFID TUNNEL READER | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | — |
| 18838965 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER | PHAN, THO GIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010938 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 112d overdue |
| 18709774 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 49d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010938 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 112d overdue |
| 19109078 | RFID LABEL AND METHOD FOR USING RFID LABEL | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 51d overdue |
| 18691653 | LABEL ATTACHING APPARATUS, LABEL ATTACHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 2 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109078 | RFID LABEL AND METHOD FOR USING RFID LABEL | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19101197 | RFID TUNNEL READER | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 2876 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18881721 | ITEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ITEM MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ITEM DETECTION INSTRUMENT | MASUD, ROKIB | 3627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18838965 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER | PHAN, THO GIA | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18709774 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18691653 | LABEL ATTACHING APPARATUS, LABEL ATTACHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18010938 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Suezu Y Ellis has the most, with 1 of Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
