Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

ARM Limited

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications

100 pending office actions • 49 art units • 86 examiners • 0 of 100 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 270 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

ARM Limited maintains 100 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 50 distinct art units, showing a broad presence in various software and hardware divisions. The portfolio involves 85 distinct examiners, which requires managing a high volume of unique examiner interactions.

Ricks, Donna J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 3 pending office actions. Although there are 100 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread so that the 85 distinct examiners mostly handle individual cases. This wide distribution across 50 distinct art units suggests that ARM Limited faces a diverse set of examination challenges across its computing and software applications.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

100
Total Pending OAs
58
Non-Final OAs
34
Final Rejections
8
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.

7
Overdue
2
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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 (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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.

56
Hard (56%)
42
Medium (42%)
2
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (2%)
§101 + other15 (15%)
§103 only38 (38%)
§102 only4 (4%)
§112 only2 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)39 (39%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
49
Information Tech
49% of docket
19
Communications
19% of docket
14
Semiconductors
14% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
18
Business / Other
18% 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.

1,000 h
Manual time on pending OAs
200 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
350 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
8.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RICKS, DONNA J 3 76.7% +10.3%
HUISMAN, DAVID J 3 57.8% +34.0%
ALLI, KASIM A 3 65.8% +36.4%
BADER, ROBERT N. 3 44.6% +26.0%
METZGER, MICHAEL J 2 90.7% +7.6%
SNYDER, STEVEN G 2 80.4% -8.5%
KIM, JUNG H 2 88.6% +6.3%
KING, DANIEL JOHN 2 98.5% +2.1%
WAI, ERIC CHARLES 2 82.1% +27.3%
WAJE, CARLO C 2 68.3% +33.4%

Quick Wins (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18240875 Multi-Transistor Bitcell Structure KING, DANIEL JOHN 12d
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 —
18844296 SUB-VECTOR-SUPPORTING INSTRUCTION FOR SCALABLE VECTOR INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE SNYDER, STEVEN G —
18791057 CLOCKING SCHEME FOR MULTI-PORT REGISTER FILE KING, DANIEL JOHN —

Hard Cases (56)

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
18611359 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS BADER, ROBERT N. 60d overdue
18509448 GRAPHICS PROCESSORS NGUYEN, PHONG X 50d overdue
18927890 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS ALLI, KASIM A 46d overdue
18495834 Dual Wordline Applications in Memory STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 15d overdue
18362405 BROADCASTING MACHINE LEARNING DATA BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN 15d overdue
18478345 PARALLEL PROCESSING CONTROL AMIN, MUSTAFA A 12d
18042272 NETWORK SECURITY WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 15d
18478666 GRAPHICS PROCESSING BADER, ROBERT N. 28d

Interview Candidates (16)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18611359 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS BADER, ROBERT N. 60d overdue
18927890 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS ALLI, KASIM A 46d overdue
18483636 INSTRUCTION DISPATCH WAI, ERIC CHARLES 19d
18478666 GRAPHICS PROCESSING BADER, ROBERT N. 28d
18982190 GRAPHICS PROCESSING RICKS, DONNA J —
18961938 MULTI-TAKEN PREDICTION ENTRIES FOR PREDICTION RESUMPTION HUISMAN, DAVID J —
18647164 RESTRICTION OF BANDWIDTH UTILISATION WAI, ERIC CHARLES —
18642353 GRAPHICS PROCESSING RICKS, DONNA J —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2183 10
2825 4
2611 4
2618 3
2196 3
2138 2
2176 2
2836 2
2439 2
2614 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
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
18988004 PERFORMANCE QUERIES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING TRUONG, KARL DUC 2614 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 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
18927890 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS ALLI, KASIM A 2183 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Oct 26, 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
18926235 EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF A DROOP MITIGATION SCHEME BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D 2138 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 24, 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
18905956 Level-Shifting Circuitry Devices and Methods KIM, JUNG H 2836 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 03, 2024
18902600 SELECTIVE MASKING IN OPTICAL FLOW BLOCK MATCHING RHIM, WOO CHUL 2676 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 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
18791057 CLOCKING SCHEME FOR MULTI-PORT REGISTER FILE KING, DANIEL JOHN 2827 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 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
18642353 GRAPHICS PROCESSING RICKS, DONNA J 2618 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18640206 DYNAMIC SELECTION OF POWER ROUTES IN CIRCUITS JAGER, RYAN C — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 19, 2024
18637568 GRAPHICS PROCESSING RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS 2613 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 17, 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
18609713 GRAPHICS PROCESSING RICKS, DONNA J 2618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2024
18692395 MEMORY ACCESS ANALYSIS YOHA, CONNIE C 2825 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 15, 2024
18591919 GRAPHICS TEXTURE PROCESSING BADER, ROBERT N. 2611 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 29, 2024
18591931 GRAPHICS TEXTURE PROCESSING HAUK, EMILY ROSE 2669 §102§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
18442220 ADDRESS TRANSLATION YEW, CHIE W 2139 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18430547 Latch with Separate Storage and Drive Path Circuitry and Methods NGUYEN, LONG T 2842 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 01, 2024
18417451 SHARED RESOURCE ACCESS CONTROL WILCOX, JAMES J 2439 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2024
18577970 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POINTER AUTHENTICATION KENNEDY, LESA M 2458 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18525413 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING NGUYEN, CHAU T — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18525274 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING ALLI, KASIM A — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18523411 ACTIVITY PLANNER RUTTEN, JAMES D — §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 29, 2023
18521286 RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING WITH HISTORY CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU 2144 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 28, 2023
18509448 GRAPHICS PROCESSORS NGUYEN, PHONG X 2617 §102§103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18509277 GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS JOSEPH, DENNIS P 2621 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 14, 2023
18499014 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS KIM, DONG U 2197 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18495834 Dual Wordline Applications in Memory STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 2825 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18483636 INSTRUCTION DISPATCH WAI, ERIC CHARLES 2195 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Oct 10, 2023
18554773 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DEBUG INFORMATION LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 10, 2023
18478345 PARALLEL PROCESSING CONTROL AMIN, MUSTAFA A 2194 §101 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478666 GRAPHICS PROCESSING BADER, ROBERT N. 2611 §102§103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18367902 Power-Gate Structure ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N 2824 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18240875 Multi-Transistor Bitcell Structure KING, DANIEL JOHN 2827 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 31, 2023
18456621 MEM-COPY INSTRUCTION QUASHING SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Aug 28, 2023
18455053 SUPPRESSION OF LOOKUP OF SECOND PREDICTOR MULLINAX, CLINT LEE 2123 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 24, 2023
18229006 Power Clamp Circuitry LAM, TUAN THIEU 2843 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 01, 2023
18362405 BROADCASTING MACHINE LEARNING DATA BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN 2196 §103§112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18358995 EFFICIENT TASK ALLOCATION MILLS, PAUL V 2196 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 26, 2023
18316125 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA PATEL, HIREN P 2196 §103§112Other Final Rejection 72d Pending May 11, 2023
18312868 METHOD AND PROCESSING UNIT FOR GENERATING AN OUTPUT FEATURE MAP CHOI, DAVID E 2148 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 05, 2023
18301921 NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE STARKS, WILBERT L 2122 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 17, 2023
18185918 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSORS TRAN, TAN H 2141 §102 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18042272 NETWORK SECURITY WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 §102§103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Feb 20, 2023
18167537 METHOD AND PROCESSING UNIT FOR GENERATING AN OUPUT FEATURE MAP DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2023
18167196 PROCESSING UNIT FOR PERFORMING MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE OPERATIONS VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2023
18106274 1-HOT PATH SIGNATURE ACCELERATOR CALDWELL, ANDREW T — §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 06, 2023
18161743 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR PROCESSING IMAGE SIGNAL VALUES MOTSINGER, SEAN T 2673 §102§103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 30, 2023
18145757 FLOATING POINT FUSED MULTIPLY ACCUMULATE WAJE, CARLO C — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 22, 2022
18080531 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR RUNTIME LINKING OF SOFTWARE COMPONENT FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS ONAT, UMUT 2194 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2022
17998221 MASKING ROW OR COLUMN POSITIONS FOR MATRIX PROCESSING SANDIFER, MATTHEW D 2151 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2022
17900975 WRITE-BACK RESCHEDULING HUISMAN, DAVID J 2183 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 01, 2022
17817142 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR DEFINING A SEARCH SPACE FOR NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING DEVICE ARCHITECTURES BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 03, 2022
17813396 NEURAL NETWORK MEMORY CONFIGURATION DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 19, 2022
17751089 Automated Selection of Neural Architecture Using a Smoothed Super-Net RAMESH, TIRUMALE K 2121 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending May 23, 2022
17708474 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING BAKER, EZRA JAMES 2126 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 30, 2022
17698166 MULTIPLE MULTIPLICATION ARRAYS WAJE, CARLO C 2151 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 18, 2022
17481871 SYSTEM, CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND/OR PROCESSES FOR ADJUSTING PARAMETERS OF A NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON ERROR SIGNALS BREEN, JAKE TIMOTHY 2143 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2021
17465569 TRAINING A SENSING SYSTEM TO DETECT REAL-WORLD ENTITIES USING DIGITALLY STORED ENTITIES ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED 2148 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 02, 2021
17067852 APPARATUS WITH REDUCED HARDWARE REGISTER SET USING REGISTER-EMULATING MEMORY LOCATION TO EMULATE ARCHITECTURAL REGISTER HUISMAN, DAVID J 2183 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 12, 2020
16392366 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING KWON, JUN 2127 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 23, 2019

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