Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
22 pending office actions • 1 client • 21 examiners • 15 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days
K&L Gates LLP-Sony has 21 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The associated record lists 34332 career applications, an 84.49% resolved allowance rate, and 3.82 average office actions per allowance. The profile provides a client-linked workload together with broader prosecution context.
The historical measures do not predict the result of a particular Sony matter. They indicate that resolved applications have involved repeated examination interactions. Practitioners should evaluate semiconductor structures, circuit relationships, optical components, and claim terminology against the specific cited art and disclosure when selecting a response strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 4 (18%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 3 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (59%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2 | 54.4% | +38.2% |
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 80.8% | +18.2% |
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.6% |
| FIGUEROA-GIBSON, GLORYVID | 1 | 66.1% | +10.6% |
| BUI, NHI QUYNH | 1 | 72.5% | +10.0% |
| FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1 | 59.1% | +20.1% |
| HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 1 | 85.5% | +12.8% |
| LE, HOA T | 1 | 72.7% | +11.9% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| MONTALVO, EVA Y | 1 | 77.4% | +11.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112457 | MAGNETIC TAPE AND TAPE CARTRIDGE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681644 | PACKAGE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A PACKAGE MATERIAL | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 5d overdue |
| 18880679 | SENSING SYSTEM FOR GRIP CONTROL, GRIPPING APPARATUS, ROBOT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | BUI, NHI QUYNH | 7d |
| 18291442 | STEREOLITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | YE, XINWEN | 33d |
| 18996284 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FIGUEROA-GIBSON, GLORYVID | — |
| 18853231 | STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURE, AND HEAT INSULATING MATERIAL | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | — |
| 18847084 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBER, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING MEMBER, SHIELDING MATERIAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBING SHEET, SENSOR, DEVICE FOR RECEIVING AND/OR TRANSMITTING, AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING LIGHT AND/OR EMITTING LIGHT | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | — |
| 18842222 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURE | LE, HOA T | — |
| 18691594 | SURFACE-LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880679 | SENSING SYSTEM FOR GRIP CONTROL, GRIPPING APPARATUS, ROBOT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | BUI, NHI QUYNH | 7d |
| 19112457 | MAGNETIC TAPE AND TAPE CARTRIDGE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19104896 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND CARTRIDGE | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 18996284 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FIGUEROA-GIBSON, GLORYVID | — |
| 18853231 | STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURE, AND HEAT INSULATING MATERIAL | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | — |
| 18847084 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBER, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING MEMBER, SHIELDING MATERIAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBING SHEET, SENSOR, DEVICE FOR RECEIVING AND/OR TRANSMITTING, AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING LIGHT AND/OR EMITTING LIGHT | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | — |
| 18842222 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURE | LE, HOA T | — |
| 18816882 | REVERSIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND EXTERIOR MEMBER | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sony | 22 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 5 |
| 1788 | 2 |
| 3645 | 2 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2628 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112457 | MAGNETIC TAPE AND TAPE CARTRIDGE | Sony Group Corporation | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19104896 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND CARTRIDGE | Sony Group Corporation | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18996284 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Sony Group Corporation | FIGUEROA-GIBSON, GLORYVID | 2628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18880679 | SENSING SYSTEM FOR GRIP CONTROL, GRIPPING APPARATUS, ROBOT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | Sony Group Corporation | BUI, NHI QUYNH | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18853231 | STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURE, AND HEAT INSULATING MATERIAL | Sony Group Corporation | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1788 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18847084 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBER, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING MEMBER, SHIELDING MATERIAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBING SHEET, SENSOR, DEVICE FOR RECEIVING AND/OR TRANSMITTING, AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING LIGHT AND/OR EMITTING LIGHT | Sony Group Corporation | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18842222 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURE | Sony Group Corporation | LE, HOA T | 1788 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18816882 | REVERSIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND EXTERIOR MEMBER | Sony Corporation | HIGGINS, GERARD T | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 | |
| 18837690 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND PHOTODETECTOR | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | MONTALVO, EVA Y | 2818 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18712839 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS | Sony Group Corporation | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2882 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18691594 | SURFACE-LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18681644 | PACKAGE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A PACKAGE MATERIAL | Sony Group Corporation | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18293434 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18291442 | STEREOLITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | Sony Group Corporation | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18572658 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM | Sony Group Corporation | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18567612 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | 1737 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18558246 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER ELEMENT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SURFACE EMITTING LASER ELEMENT | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | ZHANG, YUANDA | 2828 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18556953 | LASER ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18279817 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | HAUT, EVAN HARRISON | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18279334 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SURFACE EMITTING LASER | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18275975 | VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 17800678 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT UNIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, SENSING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial84.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by K&L Gates Llp-Sony were allowed, across 34,332 applications in USPTO records.
3.82 office actions per allowed application on average.
22 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 21 examiners in 15 art units.
