Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Altera Corporation

23 pending office actions • 19 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
2
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

14
Hard (61%)
7
Medium (30%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (9%)
§103 only5 (22%)
§102 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (52%)
No statute on record2 (9%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
57% of docket
2
Communications
9% of docket
6
Semiconductors
26% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
1
Business / Other
4% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LE, PHAT NGOC 2 66.7% +0.0%
HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y 1 90.7% -16.3%
ABRAHAM, JOSE K 1 82.4% +34.8%
METZGER, MICHAEL J 1 90.3% +8.0%
LOUIE, HOWARD H 1 82.8% +60.1%
KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 1 87.4% +2.5%
SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 1 75.9% +21.8%
ROJAS, MIDYS 1 87.5% +8.0%
VO, ETHAN VIET 1 73.4% +32.4%
SPANN, COURTNEY P 1 79.8% +21.9%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18106244 TECHNIQUES FOR INFIELD TESTING OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC CIRCUITRY KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 27d

Hard Cases (14)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17125497 MOLDED FIBER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FOR PLUGGABLE OPTICAL MCP PETKOVSEK, DANIEL 127d overdue
17985869 COMPLEX NUMBER MATRIX MULTIPLICATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS SPANN, COURTNEY P 53d overdue
18058475 INTEGRITY-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTENT USING DIGITALLY SIGNED SECURE QUICK RESPONSE CODE VO, ETHAN VIET 50d overdue
17972965 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CLOSED LOOP DOPPLER TRACKING IN INTER-SATELLITE LINKS KELLER, MICHAEL A 49d overdue
17856768 PROGRAMMABLE ROUTING BRIDGE CHANG, DANIEL D 36d overdue
18129709 Pipelined Galois Counter Mode Hash Circuit LOUIE, HOWARD H 35d overdue
17709337 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM LOW OVERHEAD SPARSITY ACCELERATION LOGIC FOR MULTI-PRECISION DATAFLOW IN DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATORS LE, PHAT NGOC 32d overdue
17358923 FPGA Processing Block for Machine Learning or Digital Signal Processing Operations DUONG, HUY 23d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17985869 COMPLEX NUMBER MATRIX MULTIPLICATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS SPANN, COURTNEY P 53d overdue
18058475 INTEGRITY-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTENT USING DIGITALLY SIGNED SECURE QUICK RESPONSE CODE VO, ETHAN VIET 50d overdue
18129709 Pipelined Galois Counter Mode Hash Circuit LOUIE, HOWARD H 35d overdue
18157272 POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SIGNATURE VERIFICATION SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 6d
18300330 Integrated Circuit Device with Separate Die for Programmable Fabric and Programmable Fabric Support Circuitry ABRAHAM, JOSE K 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2182 3
2844 2
2632 1
3729 1
2494 1
2111 1
2445 1
2133 1
2431 1
2183 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18143034 PRECODING DURING LINK ESTABLISHMENT HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y 2632 §102§103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 03, 2023
18300330 Integrated Circuit Device with Separate Die for Programmable Fabric and Programmable Fabric Support Circuitry ABRAHAM, JOSE K 3729 §102§103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18194327 INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLOATING POINT MULTIPLICATION AND ADDITION AND CONVERSION EMPLOYING VARIABLE PRECISION METZGER, MICHAEL J Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2023
18129709 Pipelined Galois Counter Mode Hash Circuit LOUIE, HOWARD H 2494 §103§112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18106244 TECHNIQUES FOR INFIELD TESTING OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC CIRCUITRY KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 2111 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18157272 POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SIGNATURE VERIFICATION SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18071923 HOST MANAGED MEMORY SHARED BY MULTIPLE HOST SYSTEMS IN A HIGH AVAILABILITY SYSTEM ROJAS, MIDYS 2133 §102§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 30, 2022
18058475 INTEGRITY-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTENT USING DIGITALLY SIGNED SECURE QUICK RESPONSE CODE VO, ETHAN VIET 2431 §103§112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022
17985869 COMPLEX NUMBER MATRIX MULTIPLICATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS SPANN, COURTNEY P 2183 §101§103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2022
17979234 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF COMMON MODE REJECTION ON COHERENT OPTIC RECEIVERS LIU, LI 2634 §103§112 Final Rejection 55d Pending Nov 02, 2022
17972965 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CLOSED LOOP DOPPLER TRACKING IN INTER-SATELLITE LINKS KELLER, MICHAEL A 2446 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2022
17957210 Backside Metallization for FPGA Resources CRAWFORD, JASON 2844 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17957698 FIELD REPLACEABLE FAN ASSEMBLIES FOR PERIPHERAL PROCESSING UNITS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FENG, ZHENGFU J 2835 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 30, 2022
17889395 DEEP TRENCH CAPACITOR BRIDGE FOR MULTI-CHIP PACKAGE ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17856768 PROGRAMMABLE ROUTING BRIDGE CHANG, DANIEL D 2844 §102§103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2022
17711784 CLOCKING ARCHITECTURE FOR A MULTI-DIE PACKAGE ZAMAN, FAISAL M 2175 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Apr 01, 2022
17709337 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM LOW OVERHEAD SPARSITY ACCELERATION LOGIC FOR MULTI-PRECISION DATAFLOW IN DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATORS LE, PHAT NGOC 2182 §103§112 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2022
17682015 SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION RIGOL, YAIMA 2135 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 28, 2022
17581751 EMBEDDED MULTI-DIE INTERCONNECT BRIDGE WITH IMPROVED POWER DELIVERY LIN, JOHN 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17541247 SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RACE-CONDITION TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS 2151 §103DP Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2021
17485123 Systems and Methods for Sparsity Operations in a Specialized Processing Block LE, PHAT NGOC 2182 §103§112 Final Rejection 79d Pending Sep 24, 2021
17358923 FPGA Processing Block for Machine Learning or Digital Signal Processing Operations DUONG, HUY 2182 §103§112 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2021
17125497 MOLDED FIBER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FOR PLUGGABLE OPTICAL MCP PETKOVSEK, DANIEL 2874 §103§112 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2020

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