Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days
Socionext Inc. has 10 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 10 examiners across 9 art units, creating a broad prosecution workload with extensive examiner distribution and one art-unit overlap in the assignment structure.
KOLKIN, ADAM D. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries more than that listed matter, so docket control and response consistency become central operational concerns rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship.
The technology-area concentration supports a portfolio-level review of claim themes, prior-art positions, and amendment choices. At the same time, the spread across 9 art units means that arguments should be tested against each technical examination context before reuse.
Counsel can benefit from a matter matrix that records examiner, art unit, claim focus, and response status for every active record. That structure can identify recurring issues without obscuring the distinct prosecution posture of each application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 1 | 45.0% | +6.2% |
| STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 1 | 88.0% | +16.7% |
| GOODWIN, DAVID J | 1 | 67.2% | +16.7% |
| HOANG, HAN DINH | 1 | 75.8% | +19.0% |
| MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 1 | — | — |
| RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | 1 | 95.2% | +2.3% |
| WARREN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 87.7% | +5.0% |
| BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 1 | 61.0% | +28.7% |
| BEATTY, TY MITCHELL | 1 | 73.0% | +36.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825831 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 22d |
| 18668988 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18785950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GOODWIN, DAVID J | — |
| 18771325 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | HOANG, HAN DINH | — |
| 18606421 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | WARREN, MATTHEW E | — |
| 18526546 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | — |
| 18524843 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BEATTY, TY MITCHELL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825831 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 22d |
| 18785950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GOODWIN, DAVID J | — |
| 18771325 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | HOANG, HAN DINH | — |
| 18526546 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | — |
| 18524843 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BEATTY, TY MITCHELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2811 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18882246 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18825831 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2825 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18785950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GOODWIN, DAVID J | 2817 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18771325 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18671451 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT | MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18668988 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | 2812 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18606421 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | WARREN, MATTHEW E | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18526546 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 2811 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18524843 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BEATTY, TY MITCHELL | 2663 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSocionext Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Adam D. Kolkin has the most, with 1 of Socionext Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
