Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
93 pending office actions • 47 art units • 82 examiners • 0 of 93 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 266 patents granted in the last 365 days
ARM Limited has 93 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are assigned to 82 distinct examiners, which indicates a high ratio of examiners to cases. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution efforts are spread widely across many different individuals at the USPTO.
The portfolio is active in 47 distinct art units, showing a significant technical breadth within the Computing & Software field. HUISMAN, DAVID J is the busiest examiner, holding 3 busiest examiner pending actions. While DAVID J HUISMAN is the most active, his 3 busiest examiner pending actions represent only a small portion of the total 93 pending office actions.
For practitioners, managing 82 distinct examiners across 47 distinct art units requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency. The fact that most examiners are only handling one case for the company means that 93 pending office actions involve many unique perspectives. Strategy must balance the specific tendencies of DAVID J HUISMAN against the diverse requirements of the 47 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 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. 17 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 | 2 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 15 (16%) |
| §103 only | 38 (41%) |
| §102 only | 3 (3%) |
| §112 only | 3 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 32 (34%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUISMAN, DAVID J | 3 | 57.7% | +34.1% |
| BADER, ROBERT N. | 3 | 44.8% | +25.4% |
| METZGER, MICHAEL J | 2 | 90.7% | +7.5% |
| SNYDER, STEVEN G | 2 | 80.4% | -8.5% |
| CHEN, BIAO | 2 | 85.4% | +28.6% |
| WAI, ERIC CHARLES | 2 | 82.1% | +27.1% |
| ALLI, KASIM A | 2 | 65.8% | +36.4% |
| WAJE, CARLO C | 2 | 67.8% | +34.5% |
| BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 2 | 51.9% | +35.8% |
| BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | 1 | 81.4% | +19.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18483636 | INSTRUCTION DISPATCH | WAI, ERIC CHARLES | 19d |
| 18855967 | TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING DATA ELEMENTS STORED IN AN ARRAY STORAGE | METZGER, MICHAEL J | 71d |
| 19038352 | DATA PROCESSORS | METZGER, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18918872 | GRAPHICS PROCESSOR | CHEN, BIAO | — |
| 18918880 | GRAPHICS PROCESSOR | CHEN, BIAO | — |
| 18844296 | SUB-VECTOR-SUPPORTING INSTRUCTION FOR SCALABLE VECTOR INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE | SNYDER, STEVEN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611359 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS | BADER, ROBERT N. | 60d overdue |
| 18362405 | BROADCASTING MACHINE LEARNING DATA | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | 15d overdue |
| 17938583 | SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 5d |
| 18478345 | PARALLEL PROCESSING CONTROL | AMIN, MUSTAFA A | 12d |
| 18042272 | NETWORK SECURITY | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 15d |
| 18478666 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | BADER, ROBERT N. | 28d |
| 18161743 | SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR PROCESSING IMAGE SIGNAL VALUES | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | 34d |
| 19264602 | BLOCK MATCHING BETWEEN FIRST DATA AND SECOND DATA | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611359 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS | BADER, ROBERT N. | 60d overdue |
| 17938583 | SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 5d |
| 18483636 | INSTRUCTION DISPATCH | WAI, ERIC CHARLES | 19d |
| 18478666 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | BADER, ROBERT N. | 28d |
| 19264602 | BLOCK MATCHING BETWEEN FIRST DATA AND SECOND DATA | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | — |
| 18961938 | MULTI-TAKEN PREDICTION ENTRIES FOR PREDICTION RESUMPTION | HUISMAN, DAVID J | — |
| 18918872 | GRAPHICS PROCESSOR | CHEN, BIAO | — |
| 18918880 | GRAPHICS PROCESSOR | CHEN, BIAO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2183 | 9 |
| 2611 | 6 |
| 2176 | 3 |
| 2194 | 3 |
| 2196 | 3 |
| 2138 | 2 |
| 2439 | 2 |
| 2843 | 2 |
| 2825 | 2 |
| 2133 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264602 | BLOCK MATCHING BETWEEN FIRST DATA AND SECOND DATA | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | — | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19244187 | WRITE BURST GATHERING ACROSS MULTIPLE STREAMS | GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE | 2138 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19171945 | VIDEO PROCESSOR | SUN, MICHAEL | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19088105 | CIRCUITRY AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING PROCESSING EVENTS | JOHNSON, TERRELL S | 2176 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19074664 | CACHE MAINTENANCE REQUESTS | PATEL, NIMESH G | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19059688 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | YICK, JORDAN WAN | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19053672 | FETCH QUEUE POPULATION | VICARY, KEITH E | 2183 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19041411 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND CIRCUITRY | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19038352 | DATA PROCESSORS | METZGER, MICHAEL J | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19032890 | STORAGE META DATA INTERROGATION | DUDEK JR, EDWARD J | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19029441 | Graphics Processing | CHEN, YU | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18879618 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POINTER SECURITY | SCHMIDT, KARI L | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18985258 | Systems and Devices of a Pulse Generator | CHEN, SIBIN | 2896 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18985268 | Systems, Methods, and Devices of Droop Detector Circuitry | SHIN, JEFFREY M | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18982318 | POWER REGULATOR FOR DIGITAL CIRCUITRY | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18982190 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | RICKS, DONNA J | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18981407 | Delay Line Unit Circuits and Methods | POOS, JOHN W | 2843 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18971476 | MEMORY DEVICE FORWARDING | SNYDER, STEVEN G | 2184 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18963622 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE | GARCIA, PAULO ANDRES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18961938 | MULTI-TAKEN PREDICTION ENTRIES FOR PREDICTION RESUMPTION | HUISMAN, DAVID J | 2183 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18939932 | STORAGE CIRCUITRY FOR READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS | NGUYEN, KATHY KIEU NGOC | 2825 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18929351 | Systems, Methods, and Devices of Design-For-Test Circuitry | TANG, RONG | 2111 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18926235 | EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF A DROOP MITIGATION SCHEME | BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D | 2138 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925518 | METHOD OF MONITORING A CLOCK SIGNAL | REHMAN, MOHAMMED H | 2176 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925406 | DROOP PROTECTION METHOD AND CIRCUIT | KIM, JUNG H | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18918872 | GRAPHICS PROCESSOR | CHEN, BIAO | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18918880 | GRAPHICS PROCESSOR | CHEN, BIAO | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18855967 | TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING DATA ELEMENTS STORED IN AN ARRAY STORAGE | METZGER, MICHAEL J | 2183 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18850850 | NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING | NYE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHER | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18888415 | LOGIC RETENTION SUPPORT IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM | ZAMAN, FAISAL M | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18844296 | SUB-VECTOR-SUPPORTING INSTRUCTION FOR SCALABLE VECTOR INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE | SNYDER, STEVEN G | 2183 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18818328 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | SZE, BRIANA | 2614 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18806907 | CONTROL INFORMATION STORAGE | AYASH, MARWAN | 2133 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18783935 | RENDERED IMAGE DATA PROCESSING AND OPTICAL FLOW CALCULATION | SHENG, XIN | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18782668 | COMPUTATION ON A DATA STREAM | HUARACHA, WILLY W | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18729148 | DATA PROCESSING | LINDLOF, JOHN M | 2183 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18758216 | AVAILABILITY OF HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FOR PERFORMING ACCELERATOR OPERATIONS | ALCANTARA-RAMOS, EMILIO | 2183 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18755149 | CIRCUIT FOR MULTIPORT REGISTER FILE' | CHO, SUNG IL | 2825 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18673614 | TAG WAY-HALTING | PHAM, KAITLYN HUNG | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18706841 | DETERMINING WHETHER A GIVEN TASK IS ALLOCATED TO A GIVEN ONE OF A PLURALITY OF LOGICALLY HOMOGENEOUS PROCESSOR CORES | ABDULLAHI, SELMAN MOHAMED | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18649068 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | TRAN, JENNY NGAN | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18649080 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | ALATA, YASSIN | 2426 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18647164 | RESTRICTION OF BANDWIDTH UTILISATION | WAI, ERIC CHARLES | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18633324 | REDUCED PRECISION NEURAL FEDERATED LEARNING | GONZALES, VINCENT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18612428 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18611359 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS | BADER, ROBERT N. | 2611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18591931 | GRAPHICS TEXTURE PROCESSING | HAUK, EMILY ROSE | 2669 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18591919 | GRAPHICS TEXTURE PROCESSING | BADER, ROBERT N. | 2611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18592285 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND/OR PROCESSES FOR ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT IN CONTAINERIZED DEPLOYMENTS | WANG, JIN CHENG | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18589892 | SPECULATION THROTTLING | ALLI, KASIM A | 2183 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialARM Limited has 93 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 47 art units and 82 examiners.
David J Huisman has the most, with 3 of ARM Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.