Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
169 pending office actions • 26 clients • 151 examiners • 101 art units • 0 of 169 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
HOLTZ, HOLTZ & VOLEK PC has 170 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Its record covers 16881 career applications, giving the current workload context within a large historical prosecution base.
The resolved allowance rate is 86.68%, and the average is 2.61 office actions per allowance. The combination shows a high reported rate of resolved applications reaching allowance, with fewer than three office actions on average for allowed matters. For patent practitioners, the profile suggests substantial operational scale and a prosecution process that often reaches allowance without an extended sequence of responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 37 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. 37 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 | 6 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 23 (14%) |
| §103 only | 57 (34%) |
| §102 only | 8 (5%) |
| §112 only | 6 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 62 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 4 | 55.6% | +16.7% |
| UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 4 | 61.9% | +10.0% |
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 3 | 80.8% | +18.2% |
| HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 3 | 84.8% | +6.7% |
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3 | 71.8% | +31.4% |
| STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2 | 88.2% | +9.0% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 2 | 73.8% | +24.6% |
| KIM, JAMES JAY | 2 | 70.4% | +27.7% |
| WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES | 2 | 89.7% | -4.4% |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 2 | 62.9% | +34.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693662 | CONNECTOR AND TIMEPIECE | WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES | 22d |
| 19349645 | FLEXURE FOR HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION AND HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19052692 | DEVICE CASE AND TIMEPIECE | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | — |
| 18829108 | WATCH | WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES | — |
| 18810534 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16618355 | SLEEP DETERMINING DEVICE, SLEEP DETERMINING METHOD, AND SLEEP DETERMINING PROGRAM | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 45d overdue |
| 17620278 | STATE OUTPUT SYSTEM | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 32d overdue |
| 18613668 | MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | 30d overdue |
| 17967032 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE APPARATUS, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PHRASE DETERMINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 30d overdue |
| 18668142 | CONNECTOR AND TEST FIXTURE | MONSUR, NASIMA | 29d overdue |
| 18494235 | COIL SPRING AND SUSPENSION FOR VEHICLE | IRVIN, THOMAS W | 10d overdue |
| 18115021 | OCULAR TUBE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 10d overdue |
| 18430759 | INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 5d 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17981295 | AUTOMATIC MUSIC PLAYING CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF PLAYING AUTOMATIC MUSIC PLAYING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 31d overdue |
| 17967032 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE APPARATUS, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PHRASE DETERMINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 30d overdue |
| 18044922 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 12d |
| 19041663 | LOAD DEVICE ASSEMBLY, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE ASSEMBLY, AND VEHICLE | KIM, JAMES JAY | 23d |
| 19349645 | FLEXURE FOR HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION AND HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19276396 | HEAD DRIVING DEVICE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19049752 | COILING MACHINE AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR COIL SPRINGS | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| 19049337 | COILING MACHINE AND COIL SPRING MANUFACTURING METHOD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 9 |
| 3791 | 5 |
| 3619 | 5 |
| 2857 | 5 |
| 2837 | 5 |
| 3715 | 4 |
| 2688 | 3 |
| 3798 | 3 |
| 2877 | 3 |
| 2872 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19534286 | SEXUAL STIMULATION DEVICE | Hytto Pte. Ltd. | COX, THADDEUS B | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2026 |
| 19351098 | POINT CLOUD DECODING DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Kddi Corporation | SIANGCHIN, KEVIN | 2486 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19349645 | FLEXURE FOR HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION AND HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION | Nhk Spring Co., Ltd. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19285378 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19278425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION ACROSS BROADCAST PLATFORMS | Hytto Pte. Ltd. | TELAN, MICHAEL R | 2426 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19276396 | HEAD DRIVING DEVICE | Nhk Spring Co., Ltd. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19259045 | CLASSIFICATION ASSISTING DEVICE, CLASSIFICATION ASSISTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 2618 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19255694 | MEMORY DEVICE | Kioxia Corporation | DUDEK JR, EDWARD J | 2139 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19247954 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION DEVICE, ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS | Konica Minolta, Inc. | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19245875 | ROBOT, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | TRAN, DALENA | 3657 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19212305 | SHEET CONVEYING MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Konica Minolta, Inc. | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19200380 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19197791 | LEARNING SUPPORT SYSTEM, LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | GARLAND, JASON LEE | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19196180 | RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING METHOD | Konica Minolta, Inc. | ARYAL, AAYUSH | 2435 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19173240 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM | Kioxia Corporation | ZAMAN, FAISAL M | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 | |
| 18848923 | PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19087111 | ACTIVITY SUPPORT METHOD, ACTIVITY SUPPORT DEVICE, AND ACTIVITY SUPPORT SYSTEM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 3625 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19085247 | REINFORCING STEEL PLATE AND EARTH REMOVAL METHOD | Oriental Shiraishi Corporation | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18695078 | RAZOR | Kai R&D Center Co., Ltd. | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19079486 | POSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | BALI, VIKKRAM | 2663 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19074324 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | Kioxia Corporation | COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2025 | |
| 19074253 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | Kioxia Corporation | WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 2825 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19071925 | SYSTEM AND PROCESSING DEVICE | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | MULL, FRED H | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19062046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA | 2409 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19063044 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | Kioxia Corporation | TANG, ANTHONY THINH | 2827 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19061161 | MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Kddi Corporation | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 2488 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19061585 | OPTICAL INSPECTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL INSPECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OPTICAL INSPECTION PROGRAM | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19061642 | OPTICAL APPARATUS, OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM, OBJECT IMAGING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OBJECT IMAGING PROGRAM | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19058156 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | BENGZON, GREG C | 2444 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19052692 | DEVICE CASE AND TIMEPIECE | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 | |
| 19049752 | COILING MACHINE AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR COIL SPRINGS | Nhk Spring Co., Ltd. | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19049337 | COILING MACHINE AND COIL SPRING MANUFACTURING METHOD | Nhk Spring Co., Ltd. | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 | |
| 19041360 | COUPLING STRUCTURE AND VEHICLE | Isuzu Motors Limited | ROBINSON, KRYSTAL | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 | |
| 19041663 | LOAD DEVICE ASSEMBLY, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE ASSEMBLY, AND VEHICLE | Isuzu Motors Limited | KIM, JAMES JAY | 3747 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19041430 | AIR COMPRESSOR, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE ASSEMBLY, AND VEHICLE | Isuzu Motors Limited | KIM, JAMES JAY | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19022921 | LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE LAMP | Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. | PHAM, THAI N | 2844 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19019026 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | YUN, JURIE | 2884 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19016210 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS, OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS | Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19013383 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 3648 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19013830 | APPARATUS, APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | RAHMAN, FAHMIDA | 2175 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19013382 | MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Kddi Corporation | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19013282 | MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Kddi Corporation | HAQUE, MD NAZMUL | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18880762 | MIRROR DRIVE DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND CORRECTION METHOD | Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18880821 | CONDUCTIVE PASTE, ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, FLEXIBLE ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | Namics Corporation | NORRIS, JEREMY C | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18879510 | PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 2671 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19003871 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18877845 | LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT, LIGHTING APPARATUS, VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM | Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. | JOSEPH, DENNIS P | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18985392 | TERMINAL CONNECTION PORTION FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Nhk Spring Co., Ltd. | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 2847 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18875543 | LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT, PRODUCTION METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT | Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. | SHEN, YUZHEN | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18981451 | SOLAR PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TIMEPIECE | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 2831 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial86.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Holtz, Holtz & Volek Pc were allowed, across 16,881 applications in USPTO records.
2.61 office actions per allowed application on average.
169 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 26 clients, before 151 examiners in 101 art units.
