Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
278 pending office actions • 36 clients • 262 examiners • 164 art units • 0 of 278 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
IPUSA, P.L.L.C focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and has 8,330 career applications recorded. Its resolved allowance rate is 89.33%, indicating that most resolved matters reached allowance.
The firm has 279 pending office actions, reflecting a large active examination workload. Allowed matters averaged 3.29 office actions, showing that allowance generally followed several responses. Practitioners evaluating the profile should account for the combination of substantial filing activity, a sizable pending docket, a favorable resolved outcome, and meaningful response effort per allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 61 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. 61 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 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 54 (19%) |
| §103 only | 101 (36%) |
| §102 only | 21 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (0%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 90 (32%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 3 | 77.0% | -3.9% |
| PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 2 | 15.4% | +35.8% |
| RASHID, ISHRAT | 2 | 60.1% | +16.4% |
| BOOHER, ADAM W | 2 | 75.5% | +9.1% |
| LIU, KENDRICK X | 2 | 78.1% | +15.4% |
| KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | 2 | 33.5% | +21.8% |
| VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 2 | 74.7% | +27.6% |
| WILSON, PAISLEY L | 2 | 59.2% | +34.6% |
| POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 2 | 76.5% | +32.2% |
| BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E | 2 | 52.5% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692055 | QUEUE CALCULATION SYSTEM, QUEUE CALCULATION APPARATUS, QUEUE CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ALLEN, NICHOLAS E | 111d overdue |
| 17756373 | INFERENCE DEVICE, INFERENCE METHOD AND INFERENCE PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING MANUFACTURING TIME-SERIES DATA USING A PLURALITY OF NETWORK SECTIONS | AGRAWAL, SHISHIR | 60d overdue |
| 18899565 | EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 49d overdue |
| 18835505 | TIME DISCOUNT RATE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, TIME DISCOUNT RATE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM | EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 45d overdue |
| 18716683 | PROPULSION APPARATUS | OLYNICK, DAVID | 43d overdue |
| 18828239 | SUPPORTING DEVICE, WORK MACHINE, AND PROGRAM | BEAN, JARED C | 28d overdue |
| 17907297 | SPECIFICATION DESCRIPTION PROGRAM AND SPECIFICATION DESCRIPTION METHOD | AQUINO, WYNUEL S | 19d overdue |
| 18683624 | PATCH AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 17d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985721 | EXCAVATOR AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR EXCAVATOR | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 17d overdue |
| 18933023 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE | BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E | 9d overdue |
| 18569744 | SYSTEM, SERVER, AND METHOD | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 8d |
| 18258958 | HEAT RAY SHIELDING RESIN SHEET MATERIAL | WILSON, PAISLEY L | 27d |
| 18509794 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ACTIVITY SENSOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 50d |
| 19147850 | EVACUATION PLAN CALCULATION APPARATUS, EVACUATION PLAN CALCULATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | — |
| 19230721 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | RASHID, ISHRAT | — |
| 19073557 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD | LIU, KENDRICK X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 6 |
| 2872 | 5 |
| 2853 | 5 |
| 3791 | 5 |
| 2857 | 5 |
| 3669 | 4 |
| 3763 | 4 |
| 3662 | 4 |
| 3666 | 4 |
| 2841 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19115110 | Untitled | Nitto Denko Corporation | CAMERON, ATTICUS A | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 19632902 | NON-CONDENSABLE GAS REINJECTION SYSTEM | Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2026 |
| 19459455 | DECORATIVE PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | TUMEBO, TSION M | 2875 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2026 |
| 19403594 | METHOD OF PRODUCING TRANSFORMED CELL OR PLANT BODY OF MAIZE, NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCT, AND METHOD OF INTRODUCING NUCLEIC ACID INTO CELL OR PLANT BODY OF MAIZE | Kaneka Corporation | STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2025 |
| 19360244 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 2161 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19166234 | CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR | Daikin Industries, Ltd. | BROCKMAN, ELDON T | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19272175 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | Tokyo Electron Limited | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19147850 | EVACUATION PLAN CALCULATION APPARATUS, EVACUATION PLAN CALCULATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | NTT, Inc. | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19263943 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2422 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19142390 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF OFFERING CONTRACT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | Daikin Industries, Ltd. | KIRK, BRYAN J | 3628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19235995 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19137817 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | NTT, Inc. | KORSAK, OLEG | 2492 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19230721 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | RASHID, ISHRAT | 2459 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19226623 | REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE | Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. | NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19133417 | INTERVIEW-RECORD-ENTERING SUPPORT APPARATUS, INTERVIEW-RECORD-ENTERING SUPPORT METHOD AND PROGRAM | NTT, Inc. | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 3681 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19217590 | DISPLAY DEVICE | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | CRAWLEY, KEITH L | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19205415 | CLEANING METHOD AND FILM-FORMING APPARATUS | Tokyo Electron Limited | MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19124032 | TRAVELING ROUTE GENERATION APPARATUS, TRAVELING ROUTE GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | NTT, Inc. | FEACHER, LORENA R | 3625 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19185914 | TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE, TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, AND TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE CALIBRATION METHOD | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | AZARI, SEPEHR | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19184288 | FILM FORMING METHOD AND FILM FORMING APPARATUS | Tokyo Electron Limited | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19122529 | BREAKER APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, INRUSH CURRENT SUPPRESSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | NTT, Inc. | BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19093922 | METHOD FOR OPERATING FILM FORMING DEVICE AND FILM FORMING DEVICE | Tokyo Electron Limited | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092283 | SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD | Preferred Networks, Inc. | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19115142 | ROBOT, LEARNING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Nitto Denko Corporation | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19089867 | SAFETY RULE GENERATION DEVICE, MOVING BODY, AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM, SAFETY RULE GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization Of Information And Systems | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19115120 | ROBOT, LEARNING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Nitto Denko Corporation | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 3658 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19086828 | DISPLAY DEVICE | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19078750 | INSPECTION METHOD, INSPECTION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | Tokyo Electron Limited | SANGHERA, JAS A | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19111535 | INFORMATION SEARCH DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Resonac Corporation | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 2154 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19111087 | INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED ABSORBENT ARTICLE | Daio Paper Corporation | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 3781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19077552 | MEMBRANE AND ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER | Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 | |
| 19073557 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD | Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. | LIU, KENDRICK X | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 | |
| 19109314 | SURGERY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SURGERY ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, AND SURGERY ASSISTANCE METHOD | Keio University | MATTSON, SEAN D | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19072336 | WORK MACHINE AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE | Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. | HAMID, AMMAR T | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19108934 | SURGERY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SURGERY ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, AND SURGERY ASSISTANCE METHOD | Keio University | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 2662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19065266 | FILM FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING CARBON FILM | Resonac Hard Disk Corporation | KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | 2896 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19062448 | CHARACTER STRING DIVIDING APPARATUS, VOCABULARY GROUP GENERATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062502 | IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19057231 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | UHLENHAKE, JASON S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19057081 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND CAMERA MODULE | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M | 2699 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19051640 | HEAT STORAGE DEVICE | Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19051578 | NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, DOCUMENT-DATA MERGING SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT-DATA MERGING METHOD | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 2681 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19046666 | ASSISTANCE DEVICE, WORK MACHINE, AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. | HOLWERDA, STEPHEN | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19042423 | LENS HOLDER DRIVING DEVICE | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | RHODES, JR, LEON W | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19039381 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTION SYSTEM, AND LIQUID EJECTION METHOD | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19039229 | ABSOLUTE ENCODER | Minebea Mitsumi Inc. | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19037917 | VIBRATION GENERATING DEVICE | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | DESAI, NAISHADH N | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19036703 | VEHICLE SPEAKER | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | TULOP, JIRAPON INTAVONG | 2693 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18997902 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | 1761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19033025 | MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTION DEVICE | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, TUNG X | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial89.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ipusa, P.L.L.C were allowed, across 8,330 applications in USPTO records.
3.29 office actions per allowed application on average.
278 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 36 clients, before 262 examiners in 164 art units.
