Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
AMD Design LLC is currently managing 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, indicating a decentralized examination process where no applications share the same reviewer. This distribution requires the applicant to manage 7 different prosecution conversations simultaneously.
The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, which is nearly equal to the number of pending office actions. This broad distribution across art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are technically diverse. With 6 distinct art units involved, the prosecution team must be prepared to address the specific standards and practices of multiple departments within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
DUONG, THO V is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned. Because every examiner, including the busiest, is only responsible for 1 action, the portfolio's success is not concentrated in a person's hands. The outcome of the 7 pending office actions will be determined by the individual decisions of the 7 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.6% | +38.8% |
| DUONG, THO V | 1 | 67.0% | +17.6% |
| AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 1 | 46.9% | +59.4% |
| CHIU, TAK LIANG | 1 | 45.5% | +24.6% |
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +13.6% |
| VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 1 | 69.9% | +13.8% |
| ULATOWSKI, EMMA ELIZABETH | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462052 | JIG FOR INSTALLATION OF GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT BASE BOARD | TRINH, MINH N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955292 | SERVER POWER SUPPLY UNIT EXHAUST DUCT | FENG, ZHENGFU J | — |
| 18937669 | TRAY SYSTEM FOR LIQUID COOLANT SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLIES | DUONG, THO V | — |
| 18758505 | INLINE LIQUID-DEGASSER WITH LOOPED FIBERS | CHIU, TAK LIANG | — |
| 18644354 | ROTATING COLD PLATE ASSEMBLY, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING COLD PLATE ASSEMBLY | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | — |
| 18415776 | BAKING SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING UNIT ASSEMBLY | ULATOWSKI, EMMA ELIZABETH | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777804 | SERVER CANISTER FOR LIQUID-COOLED SERVER RACKS | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 9d overdue |
| 18955292 | SERVER POWER SUPPLY UNIT EXHAUST DUCT | FENG, ZHENGFU J | — |
| 18937669 | TRAY SYSTEM FOR LIQUID COOLANT SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLIES | DUONG, THO V | — |
| 18758505 | INLINE LIQUID-DEGASSER WITH LOOPED FIBERS | CHIU, TAK LIANG | — |
| 18755070 | RATCHETING CAM-LATCH FOR SERVER | LUGO, CARLOS | — |
| 18644354 | ROTATING COLD PLATE ASSEMBLY, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING COLD PLATE ASSEMBLY | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 2 |
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18955292 | SERVER POWER SUPPLY UNIT EXHAUST DUCT | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18937669 | TRAY SYSTEM FOR LIQUID COOLANT SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLIES | DUONG, THO V | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18777804 | SERVER CANISTER FOR LIQUID-COOLED SERVER RACKS | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18758505 | INLINE LIQUID-DEGASSER WITH LOOPED FIBERS | CHIU, TAK LIANG | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18755070 | RATCHETING CAM-LATCH FOR SERVER | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18644354 | ROTATING COLD PLATE ASSEMBLY, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING COLD PLATE ASSEMBLY | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18415776 | BAKING SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING UNIT ASSEMBLY | ULATOWSKI, EMMA ELIZABETH | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18462052 | JIG FOR INSTALLATION OF GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT BASE BOARD | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAMD Design LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Zhengfu J Feng has the most, with 1 of AMD Design LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
