Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
59 pending office actions • 43 art units • 58 examiners • 0 of 59 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 152 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited is managing 58 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 41 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of semiconductor and optical technologies. The company deals with 57 distinct examiners, which means that almost every pending action is being handled by a different person.
Kareem Fuad Alhwamdeh is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 2 pending office actions. This extremely low concentration among 57 distinct examiners suggests that the company's prosecution experience is highly fragmented. Practitioners must navigate a wide variety of examiner perspectives across the 41 different art units involved. The high ratio of examiners to 58 pending actions indicates that there is very little opportunity to apply lessons learned from one examiner to other pending matters in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 + other | 2 (3%) |
| §103 only | 21 (36%) |
| §102 only | 4 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 28 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SASINOWSKI, ANDREW | 1 | 78.0% | +12.3% |
| O NEILL, PATRICK | 1 | 83.4% | +17.4% |
| WONG, TITUS | 1 | 77.5% | +19.6% |
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.2% | +11.0% |
| GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J | 1 | 62.5% | +37.8% |
| AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 1 | 84.3% | +14.7% |
| SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET | 1 | 83.8% | +3.4% |
| SANCHEZ, DIBSON J | 1 | 73.8% | +22.7% |
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18909879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE CODE RATES IN MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 5d overdue |
| 19232831 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE CLOCK DIVIDERS BY USING LOWER-FREQUENCY CLOCKS AND SLIPPING CYCLES | O NEILL, PATRICK | — |
| 19088361 | LOW COMPLEXITY AFFINE MERGE MODE FOR VERSATILE VIDEO CODING | BECK, LERON | — |
| 18933369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR) OPTIMIZATION USING BIAS CONTROL | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| 18909877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE CODE RATES ACROSS RESOURCE UNITS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18309308 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH DOUBLE-SIDED FANOUT CHIP PACKAGES | BELL, LAUREN R | 5d overdue |
| 18361497 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE GATES AND RELATED METHOD | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 5d |
| 17898201 | HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONS | VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY | 22d |
| 17876378 | CONVOLUTION HARDWARE ACCELERATOR | RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS | 61d |
| 18359669 | Area Efficient Fin-Based Laterally-Diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor | LOKE, STEVEN HO YIN | 68d |
| 19189597 | INTERCONNECT REPAIR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | WONG, TITUS | — |
| 19041734 | PACKET PROCESSING PIPELINE SHARING IN A NETWORK SWITCH | GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J | — |
| 19016774 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-STIFFNESS SUBSTRATE INTEGRATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19394483 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS FOR MODE HOP DETECTION IN HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING | SASINOWSKI, ANDREW | — |
| 19232831 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE CLOCK DIVIDERS BY USING LOWER-FREQUENCY CLOCKS AND SLIPPING CYCLES | O NEILL, PATRICK | — |
| 19189597 | INTERCONNECT REPAIR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | WONG, TITUS | — |
| 19088361 | LOW COMPLEXITY AFFINE MERGE MODE FOR VERSATILE VIDEO CODING | BECK, LERON | — |
| 19041734 | PACKET PROCESSING PIPELINE SHARING IN A NETWORK SWITCH | GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J | — |
| 19016774 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-STIFFNESS SUBSTRATE INTEGRATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | — |
| 18961859 | RAPID BURST MODE SERDES TUNING | SANCHEZ, DIBSON J | — |
| 18933369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR) OPTIMIZATION USING BIAS CONTROL | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2112 | 3 |
| 2817 | 3 |
| 2181 | 2 |
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2471 | 2 |
| 2800 | 2 |
| 2151 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19394483 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS FOR MODE HOP DETECTION IN HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING | SASINOWSKI, ANDREW | 2625 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19232831 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE CLOCK DIVIDERS BY USING LOWER-FREQUENCY CLOCKS AND SLIPPING CYCLES | O NEILL, PATRICK | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19189597 | INTERCONNECT REPAIR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | WONG, TITUS | 2181 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19088361 | LOW COMPLEXITY AFFINE MERGE MODE FOR VERSATILE VIDEO CODING | BECK, LERON | 2487 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19041734 | PACKET PROCESSING PIPELINE SHARING IN A NETWORK SWITCH | GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J | 2449 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19016774 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-STIFFNESS SUBSTRATE INTEGRATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18985174 | ADAPTIVE CASCODE GATE BIAS GENERATION CIRCUIT | SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET | 2836 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18961859 | RAPID BURST MODE SERDES TUNING | SANCHEZ, DIBSON J | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18933369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR) OPTIMIZATION USING BIAS CONTROL | ZAKARIA, AKM | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18933761 | MULTI-ACCESS-POINT COORDINATION FOR NULLING MUTUAL INTERFERENCE | BHATTI, HASHIM S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18934016 | Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Scanning for Wireless Devices | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 2477 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18931327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ACCESS POINT DISCOVERY WITH DYNAMIC DWELL TIME | PARK, JUNG H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18929968 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING PACKET DATA WITH VARIABLE METADATA SIZE | DONABED, NINOS | 2444 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18929178 | LATENCY REDUCTION THROUGH CONTROLLER TRANSMIT OPPORUNITY SHARING | WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18915195 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF FREQUENCY DOMAIN DUPLICATE MODE TRANSMISSION USING ORTHOGONAL CODES | ALSOMIRI, MAJDI A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18909877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE CODE RATES ACROSS RESOURCE UNITS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 2112 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18909879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE CODE RATES IN MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 2112 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18890133 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INRUSH CURRENT CONTROL IN VOLTAGE REGULATORS | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18819832 | WIRELESS HIGH SPEED IN-BAND COMMUNICATIONS | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18790434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDED LONG RANGE COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLANS) | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 2112 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790808 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN A PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 2685 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18668866 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK RECEIVER | TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18652150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOWNLINK CHANNEL-SOUNDING WITH MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS | LO, DIANE LEE | 2466 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18651285 | TRACKING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT BY COMBINING COMPONENTS OF A GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM SIGNAL | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18649291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC) ENCODING AND RATE MATCHING | KAVLESKI, RYAN C | 2412 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18648836 | STRUCTURES AND METHODS TO PROVIDE CONNECTIONS ACROSS CHANNELS | YI, CHANGHYUN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18631617 | ALIGNMENT STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR COPACKAGED OPTICAL CONNECTOR | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18605058 | VERTICAL CIRCUIT DIE WITH LATERAL SIDE METAL | LEE, KYOUNG | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18601721 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIDEBAND SPECTRUM ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT | FAYED, RASHA K | 2413 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18438223 | Host-Initiated Read Ahead on Logical Devices | KWONG, EDMUND H | 2137 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18428871 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANGE EXTENSION IN WIRELESS DEVICES | LIU, SIMING | 2411 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18427073 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF POWER ADAPTIVE MULTILINK OPERATION | GIDADO, RASHEED | 2464 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18507670 | ACTIVE SCANS WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSIONS | MIAN, OMER S | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18498601 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS FOR OUT-OF-BAND FILTERS | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 2849 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18497463 | RECONFIGURABLE POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 2843 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18489110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCALABLE RELIABLE CONNECTION TRANSPORT FOR RDMA | UNELUS, ERNEST | 2181 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18476868 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH DIE-TO-DIE INTERFACES | TUTTLE, ETHAN ALEXANDER | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18475566 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER DELIVERY FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | GARCES, NELSON Y | 2814 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18239311 | WORKLOAD AWARENESS FOR CONTROLLERS | CHEN, ZHI | 2196 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18361977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING CHANNEL CONNECTIVITY IN WIRELESS LAN | HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN | 2469 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18361834 | Laterally-Diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Devices with Reduced Gate Charge and Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown | MEHTA, RATISHA | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Jul 29, 2023 |
| 18361497 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE GATES AND RELATED METHOD | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 2813 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18361610 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF REASSOCIATION IN A NETWORK | ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | 2431 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18360522 | STIFFENER MEMBER WITH ONE OR MORE VIAS | LEE, PETE T | 2642 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18359669 | Area Efficient Fin-Based Laterally-Diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor | LOKE, STEVEN HO YIN | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18314248 | CORELESS SUBSTRATES AND MANUFACUTRING METHODS THEREOF | BENITEZ ROSARIO, JOSHUA | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18309308 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH DOUBLE-SIDED FANOUT CHIP PACKAGES | BELL, LAUREN R | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18307391 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF NON-PRIMARY CHANNEL UTILIZATION IN A NETWORK | CHANG, YU-WEN | 2400 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18307419 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF MULTI AP NETWORKS | HUANG, WEIBIN | 2471 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18122636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY MODIFYING SWITCHING-MODE POWER SUPPLY EFFICIENCY | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2800 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17985003 | LINK SELECTION FOR NON-SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMIT RECEIVE (NSTR) | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 2471 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17946955 | SILICON PHOTONIC MULTIPLEXER AND DE-MULTIPLEXER | LE, UYEN CHAU N | 2800 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17898201 | HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONS | VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY | 2151 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17895680 | ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR | CHU, CHRIS H | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
| 17875647 | SMALLER MODULE BY STACKING | RONO, VINCENT KIPKEMOI | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17876378 | CONVOLUTION HARDWARE ACCELERATOR | RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS | 2151 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17873521 | Semiconductor Package Interconnection Structure | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 2817 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
| 17741621 | 3D Packaging Heterogeneous Area Array Interconnections | BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 2898 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
| 17726286 | INTEGRATED INTERPOSER FOR RF APPLICATION | STARK, JARRETT J | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 21, 2022 |
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