Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
20 pending office actions • 15 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha has 20 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio spans 20 examiners and 15 art units, indicating that each pending matter has a distinct examiner while several matters are grouped within the same art units. This combination favors matter-specific response management with art-unit-level tracking for recurring technical or prior-art issues.
SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger assignment, so prosecution is distributed rather than concentrated. Counsel should focus on maintaining consistent technical positions across the portfolio without assuming that one examiner’s treatment will govern other matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1 | 28.6% | +51.3% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 47.6% | +55.6% |
| LUCK, SEAN M | 1 | 62.7% | +27.5% |
| GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | 1 | 84.0% | +13.6% |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PERSAUD, DEORAM | 1 | 77.1% | +11.7% |
| RUMP, RICHARD M | 1 | 74.4% | +20.3% |
| CARTER, MICHAEL W | 1 | 74.3% | +15.4% |
| FORDE, DELMA ROSA | 1 | 76.7% | +14.8% |
| BURRUS, KYLE PRESTON | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802789 | INFRARED LED ELEMENT | GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18724299 | FLUID TREATMENT DEVICE | WANG, JING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101078 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 121d overdue |
| 18257562 | ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT USING ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY APPARATUS | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 34d |
| 18996224 | ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT-RADIATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT-RADIATING DEVICE | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | — |
| 18635204 | METHOD OF PRODUCING TIN-BASED PEROVSKITE LAYER | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
| 18613932 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE | CARTER, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18416618 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | — |
| 18396916 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE | DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | — |
| 18479302 | OPTICAL HEATING APPARATUS | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675653 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, IRRADIATION METHOD, AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURING METHOD | PERSAUD, DEORAM | 36d overdue |
| 18996224 | ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT-RADIATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT-RADIATING DEVICE | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | — |
| 18857758 | BACTERIA OR VIRUSES INACTIVATION DEVICE, TREATMENT DEVICE, DISCHARGE LAMP | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
| 18802955 | LIGHT TREATMENT DEVICE | LUCK, SEAN M | — |
| 18802789 | INFRARED LED ELEMENT | GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | — |
| 18635204 | METHOD OF PRODUCING TIN-BASED PEROVSKITE LAYER | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
| 18613932 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE | CARTER, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18416618 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 3 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| 2881 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996224 | ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT-RADIATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT-RADIATING DEVICE | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18857758 | BACTERIA OR VIRUSES INACTIVATION DEVICE, TREATMENT DEVICE, DISCHARGE LAMP | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18802955 | LIGHT TREATMENT DEVICE | LUCK, SEAN M | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18802789 | INFRARED LED ELEMENT | GHYKA, ALEXANDER G | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18724299 | FLUID TREATMENT DEVICE | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18675653 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, IRRADIATION METHOD, AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURING METHOD | PERSAUD, DEORAM | 2882 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18635204 | METHOD OF PRODUCING TIN-BASED PEROVSKITE LAYER | RUMP, RICHARD M | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18613932 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE | CARTER, MICHAEL W | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18416618 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18413014 | INFRARED LED ELEMENT | BURRUS, KYLE PRESTON | 2891 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18577616 | ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY APPARATUS AND LIGHT SOURCE | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18396916 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE | DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18479302 | OPTICAL HEATING APPARATUS | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18272035 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT, APPARATUS OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT AND OPTICAL COMPONENT | HON, SOW FUN | 1782 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18271038 | PHOTO TREATMENT DEVICE | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18257562 | ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT USING ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY APPARATUS | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18043591 | PULSE SPECTROSCOPY DEVICE | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18101078 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 17859894 | STORAGE AND DRAINAGE MECHANISM, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE AND DRAINAGE METHOD | KIM, ROBERT H | 2800 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17578973 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD, TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL HEATING DEVICE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUshio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 20 examiners.
Nebyate Samuel Seged has the most, with 1 of Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
