Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
778 pending office actions • 86 clients • 603 examiners • 267 art units • 0 of 778 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Venable LLP reports 781 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and 60413 career applications. The pending docket and application volume both indicate a large reported prosecution operation in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 90.28%, and the average is 3.15 office actions per allowance. The rate provides an outcome measure across resolved applications, while the action average indicates that allowance generally follows more than one examination event.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 176 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. 176 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 | 24 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 86 (11%) |
| §103 only | 261 (34%) |
| §102 only | 49 (6%) |
| §112 only | 18 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 19 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 16 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 301 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 15 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| BEATTY, ROBERT B | 11 | 92.6% | +3.1% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 8 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
| HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 7 | 75.3% | +2.8% |
| ROTH, LAURA K | 6 | 82.7% | +1.6% |
| SEILER, GRANT STEVEN | 6 | 54.1% | +6.9% |
| THERRIEN, CARLA J | 5 | 87.0% | +4.5% |
| GRAINGER, QUANA M | 5 | 88.9% | -3.7% |
| UHLENHAKE, JASON S | 5 | 87.4% | -2.4% |
| NGO, HOANG X | 4 | 93.7% | +6.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19053091 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | THERRIEN, CARLA J | 16d |
| 19311090 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | BEATTY, ROBERT B | — |
| 19310487 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | GRAINGER, QUANA M | — |
| 19289360 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | BEATTY, ROBERT B | — |
| 19280569 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT BONDS PLURALITY OF SHEETS TOGETHER, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM | NGO, HOANG X | — |
| 19264900 | DEVICE ATTACHABLE TO AND DETACHABLE FROM IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMANUFACTURING THE DEVICE | NGO, HOANG X | — |
| 19265704 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | GRAINGER, QUANA M | — |
| 19259848 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | BEATTY, ROBERT B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18380724 | DEVICE FOR REMOVING DEBRIS FROM A SUBJECT | PATEL, NIKETA I | 168d overdue |
| 18889730 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND MOVING BODY | TARKO, ASMAMAW G | 163d overdue |
| 18650611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUMULATIVE SERIES EVENT PREDICTION | FEACHER, LORENA R | 154d overdue |
| 18999620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D SURFACE MODEL FITTING VIA ROBOT ARM CONTROLLED LASER GRID AND CAMERA | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 113d overdue |
| 18284753 | METHOD FOR FORECASTING THE CURRENT WEAR STATE OF AN IDENTFIED TIRE INSTALLED ON AN IDENTIFIED AEROPLANE | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 98d overdue |
| 17587841 | MANAGING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN STATEFUL PROCESSES | VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL | 92d overdue |
| 18122348 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 44d overdue |
| 18329664 | RECORDING APPARATUS | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 63 |
| 2852 | 51 |
| 2683 | 19 |
| 2682 | 19 |
| 2681 | 18 |
| 1749 | 17 |
| 3663 | 14 |
| 3664 | 12 |
| 3747 | 11 |
| 3665 | 10 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183247 | Untitled | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | THERRIEN, CARLA J | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 19446264 | BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING | Omnibuds Ltd. | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2026 |
| 19438748 | A HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD | Volvo Construction Equipment AB | TEKA, ABIY | 3745 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2026 |
| 19438921 | GEARBOX ASSEMBLY WITH LUBRICANT EXTRACTION VOLUME RATIO | GE Avio S.r.l. | LISOWSKI, JACEK | 3741 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2026 |
| 19426846 | A SHAFT ASSEMBLY FOR A GEARBOX OF A VEHICLE | Volvo Truck Corporation | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19417894 | MULTIPLE PROVIDER SEARCH RESPONSE VERIFICATION AND INTEGRATION | Yext, Inc. | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 3688 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19418486 | COUNTERFEIT DETECTION AND PROVENANCE WITH GRATING INTERFEROMETRY, BLOCKCHAIN, AND SMART CONTRACTS | Louisiana Tech Research Corporation | LABAZE, EDWYN | 2876 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19398710 | HANDLING A VEHICLE COMPRISING REDUNDANT COMPONENTS | Volvo Truck Corporation | MILLER, LEAH NICOLE | 3663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2025 |
| 19397143 | HUB ASSEMBLY HAVING A PTICH LOCK SYSTEM | GE Avio S.r.l. | FISHER, WESLEY LE | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19393368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL | Innovasoft Tech Holdings Ltd. | CHEUNG, HUBERT G | 2161 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19392731 | SECONDARY BRAKE SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY | Volvo Truck Corporation | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19392846 | FAN ASSEMBLY FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE | General Electric Company | KIM, SANG K | 3745 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19389620 | A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM | Volvo Truck Corporation | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19384303 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19382812 | STOP SYSTEM FOR A HIGH POWER SYSTEM | Volvo Penta Corporation | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19481799 | Method and System for Estimating Ultrasound Probe Pose in Laparoscopic Ultrasound Procedures | Edda Technology, Inc. | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19480704 | PACKAGING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR FEEDING A PACKAGING BAG TO A CONVEYING DEVICE OF A PACKAGING MACHINE | Hdg-Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19376137 | A COMPUTER SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A FUEL CELL SYSTEM | Volvo Truck Corporation | NING, PETER Y | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19366566 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVIE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | DANG, HUNG Q | 2484 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19363021 | A CONTROL UNIT AND A METHOD FOR MANAGING IDLE TIME IN A BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM | Volvo Penta Corporation | ORTIZ, ELIM | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
| 19360097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWER USAGE OF A TRACTION ELECTRIC MACHINE | Volvo Truck Corporation | GOODBODY, JOAN T | 3664 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19360633 | DIFFUSER WITH PASSLETS | General Electric Company | KANG, EDWIN G | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19472279 | VESSEL MOTION CONTROL BASED ON PROPELLER SLIP | Volvo Penta Corporation | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19347194 | METHODS FOR TREATING ALZHEIMER DISEASE AND FOR REDUCING AMYLOID BETA FORMATION | SK Chemicals Co., Ltd. | GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO | 1624 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19345801 | MANAGING PASSENGER TRANSPORT BETWEEN MARINE VESSELS | Cpac Systems AB | KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | 3666 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19341516 | A POWERTRAIN SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | Volvo Truck Corporation | KIRBY, BRIAN R | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19469801 | MOTION CONTROL OF A VEHICLE BASED ON ARTIFICIAL FLOW GUIDANCE | Volvo Truck Corporation | KRAFT, LOGAN M | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19339855 | A CONTROL UNIT AND A METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER SOURCES AND ENERGY STORAGE IN A HYBRID POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | Volvo Penta Corporation | YESHAW, ESAYAS G | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19338167 | CONTAINER | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | BEATTY, ROBERT B | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19167105 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE FUEL CELL SYSTEM | Volvo Truck Corporation | PHAM, CLINT V | 3663 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19331592 | STEERING CONTROL FOR TRAILING UNITS OF VEHICLE COMBINATIONS | Volvo Truck Corporation | SOOFI, YAZAN A | 3668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19331299 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAILER CONNECTION TYPE | Volvo Truck Corporation | AMICK, JACOB M | 3747 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19331568 | ESTIMATING LATERAL SLIP LOSSES IN A VEHICLE COMBINATION | Volvo Truck Corporation | SOOFI, YAZAN A | 3668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19324336 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND STORAGE CASSETTE | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19163582 | TIRE TREAD FOR A HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE COMPRISING STONE-EXPELLING AND NOISE-PREVENTING PROJECTIONS | COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE DES ÉTABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN | MAKI, STEVEN D | 1749 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19318625 | A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWERTRAIN OF A VEHICLE | Volvo Truck Corporation | HOLMAN, JOHN D | 3667 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19316141 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | Canon Medical Systems Corporation | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19316679 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | BEATTY, ROBERT B | 2852 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19314603 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT DETERMINES COLOR MISREGISTRATION AMOUNT | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | CHEN, SOPHIA S | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19311090 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | BEATTY, ROBERT B | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19311022 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREIN FOR STEERING CONTROL STABILIZATION OF A MARINE VESSEL | Cpac Systems AB | INGRAM, THOMAS P | 3668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19310487 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | GRAINGER, QUANA M | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19303585 | SOLID FORMS OF 2-(3,5-DICHLORO-4-((5-ISOPROPYL-6-OXO-1,6-DIHYDROPYRIDAZIN-3-YL)OXY)PHENYL)-3,5-DIOXO-2,3,4,5-TETRAHYDRO-1,2,4-TRIAZINE-6-CARBONITRILE | Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | MOU, LIYUAN | 1628 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19303906 | MAPPING SURROUNDINGS OF A MARINE VESSEL | Cpac Systems AB | TISSOT, ADAM D | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19301328 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND PHOTODETECTION SYSTEM | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | AGGARWAL, YOGESH K | 2637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301188 | ISSUING TRANSMISSION SHIFT PREPARATION INFORMATION | Volvo Truck Corporation | LEWIS, TISHA D | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19299590 | REGENERATION DEVICE FOR CLEANING BLADE, REGENERATION METHOD FOR CLEANING BLADE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR REGENERATED CLEANING BLADE | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | BEATTY, ROBERT B | 2852 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19299525 | CARTRIDGE | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | BEATTY, ROBERT B | 2852 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19298490 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IMPROVING DISPLAY OPERABILITY | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | WILSON, DOUGLAS M | 2622 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19298716 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC ROLLER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | CHEN, SOPHIA S | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
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