Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Changxin Memory Technologies Inc.

64 pending office actions • 20 art units • 51 examiners • 0 of 64 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 449 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

64
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
16
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 63 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

38
Overdue
0
Due this week
13
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
8
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. 63 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (38)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (8)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
52
Medium (81%)
8
Easy (12%)
4
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only40 (62%)
§102 only12 (19%)
§112 only8 (12%)
No statute on record4 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
2% of docket
3
Information Tech
5% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
59
Semiconductors
92% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
2% 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.

640 h
Manual time on pending OAs
128 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
224 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STARK, JARRETT J 4 70.3% +11.2%
ZHU, SHENG-BAI 3 62.4% +5.2%
PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR 2 83.3% +8.8%
KARIMY, TIMOR 2 82.0% +10.1%
GARCES, NELSON Y 2 80.2% +2.7%
AU, BAC H 2 81.0% +10.8%
BAUMAN, SCOTT E 2 46.9% +26.4%
LI, MEIYA 2 68.7% +25.4%
TANG, ALICE W 2 87.5% +33.3%
PARENDO, KEVIN A 2 71.9% +11.3%

Quick Wins (9)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18153013 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF TANG, ALICE W 267d overdue
17680377 STRUCTURE FOR ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT MARK AND METHOD FOR ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT AU, BAC H 98d overdue
18150775 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH GERMANIUM-SILICON/POLYSILICON HYBRID GATE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME GARCES, NELSON Y 88d overdue
18167138 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR 53d overdue
18451095 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE KARIMY, TIMOR 30d overdue
18450731 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME GARCES, NELSON Y 8d overdue
18451060 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE KARIMY, TIMOR 15d
18364487 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AU, BAC H 29d

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
18153013 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF TANG, ALICE W 267d overdue
18152158 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY STARK, JARRETT J 168d overdue
18151449 CONTACT STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME TANG, ALICE W 168d overdue
17680377 STRUCTURE FOR ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT MARK AND METHOD FOR ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT AU, BAC H 98d overdue
17849987 METHOD FOR FORMING A SEMI-BURIED BIT LINE STRUCTURE AND PERIPHERAL GATE SIMULTANEOUSLY BAUMAN, SCOTT E 85d overdue
18155061 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME LI, MEIYA 45d overdue
18451095 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE KARIMY, TIMOR 30d overdue
18448942 MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF STARK, JARRETT J 5d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2818 8
2898 8
2817 5
2814 5
2893 5
2812 4
2851 4
2815 4
2811 3
2899 3

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18777276 Memory Integrated Circuit with Local Amplifier Module and Local Read-Write Conversion Module to Improve Operation Speed and Reduce Number of Data Lines ROSWELL, MICHAEL 3992 Other Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18395683 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Dec 25, 2023
18541118 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME KIM, TONG-HO 2811 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18527739 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, METHOD OF FORMING SAME, AND MEMORY MAZUMDER, DIDARUL A 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18547767 METHOD OF FABRICATION FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 2817 §112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18547497 Semiconductor Structures and Methods of Forming Them LU, JIONG-PING 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 22, 2023
18547073 Semiconductor Structure And Method For Fabricating The Same TURNER, BRIAN 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18451095 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE KARIMY, TIMOR 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18450731 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME GARCES, NELSON Y 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18451011 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME PHAM, HOAI V 2892 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18451060 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE KARIMY, TIMOR 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 16, 2023
18449771 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME STARK, JARRETT J 2898 §102 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18449394 SEMICONDUCTOR STACK STRUCTURE WELLINGTON, ANDREA L 2800 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18448942 MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF STARK, JARRETT J 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2023
18446507 METHOD FOR FORMING CAPACITOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PHAM, THANHHA S 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2023
18364487 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AU, BAC H 2898 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 03, 2023
17420124 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHOD MAKING THE SAME STARK, JARRETT J 2898 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18170522 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE BODNAR, JOHN A 2893 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18169826 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WAFER BONDING ALIGNMENT WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 2893 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18167138 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR 2812 §102 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18166025 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE ARDEO, EMILIO 2899 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Feb 08, 2023
18166473 PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGE STRUCTURE HANUMASAGAR, SHAMITA S 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2023
18164158 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF RAHMAN, MOIN M 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18162657 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING DATA PROCESSING CIRCUIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TAT, BINH C 2851 §102 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18157079 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE SIPLING, KENNETH MARK 2818 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18156459 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH VERTICAL TRANSISTOR AND FORMING METHOD THEREFOR OH, JIYOUNG 2818 §112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
18156457 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH A CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME, AND MEMORY PURVIS, SUE A 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
18155768 DUMMY METAL FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM SOUNDRANAYAGAM, RAYAPPU NMN 2851 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2023
18155107 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE BAUMAN, SCOTT E 2815 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jan 17, 2023
18098042 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MEMORY JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
18155061 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME LI, MEIYA 2811 §102 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2023
18154756 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE ANDERSON, WILLIAM H 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
18153013 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF TANG, ALICE W 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 267d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
18152158 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY STARK, JARRETT J 2898 Non-Final OA 168d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
18152191 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN 2899 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 10, 2023
18152193 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME PARENDO, KEVIN A 2896 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 10, 2023
18151449 CONTACT STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME TANG, ALICE W 2814 Non-Final OA 168d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2023
18150199 ELECTROSTATIC PROTECTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING ELECTROSTATIC PROTECTION STRUCTURE LEE, WOO KYUNG 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150775 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH GERMANIUM-SILICON/POLYSILICON HYBRID GATE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME GARCES, NELSON Y 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18149210 PATTERNING METHOD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE PARENDO, KEVIN A 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 03, 2023
17955681 PACKAGE STRUCTURE, PACKAGING METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE GOODWIN, DAVID J 2817 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17955622 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH ACTIVE REGION PATTERN WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17936848 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME ZHU, SHENG-BAI 2897 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17953335 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH A PIT AT BOTTOM OF A BITLINE CONTACT GROOVE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF ZHU, SHENG-BAI 2897 §103 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17952264 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, STORAGE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2022
17933940 SEMICONDJUCTOR STRUCTURE WITHBITLINEPOSITIONEDABOVE TRANSISTOR ANT) FORMING METHOD THEREOF ZHU, SHENG-BAI 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 21, 2022
17947630 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH ACTIVE PILLARS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF NGUYEN, DUY T V 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 145d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2022
17947774 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD RAMOS-DIAZ, FERNANDO JOSE 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 141d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2022
17945233 LAYOUT AND WIRING METHOD, COMPARISON METHOD, FABRICATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM KIK, PHALLAKA 2851 §102 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
17892152 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE NETTLES, CORALIE ANN 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 204d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022
17891618 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME XU, ZHIJUN 2818 §103 Final Rejection 65d Pending Aug 19, 2022
17891113 METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURE THEREOF CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A 2815 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17796724 An Apparatus and Method of Generating Chip Select Signals NGUYEN, VIET Q 2827 §112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 01, 2022
17812743 METHOD OF CIRCUIT SIMULATION, TEST APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 2186 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Jul 15, 2022
17810034 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AHMED, MEHEK 2817 Non-Final OA 279d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2022
17849987 METHOD FOR FORMING A SEMI-BURIED BIT LINE STRUCTURE AND PERIPHERAL GATE SIMULTANEOUSLY BAUMAN, SCOTT E 2815 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2022
17846147 WORD LINE STRUCTURE ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M 2893 §103 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2022
17804690 SIGNAL DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS LUU, CUONG V 2189 §112 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 31, 2022
17825235 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE SIMULATION DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 26, 2022
17662641 NON CONDUCTIVE FILM, METHOD FOR FORMING NON CONDUCTIVE FILM, CHIP PACKAGE STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING CHIP ISAAC, STANETTA D 2898 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 09, 2022
17655612 SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM LIN, ARIC 2851 §103 Final Rejection 78d Pending Mar 21, 2022
17680377 STRUCTURE FOR ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT MARK AND METHOD FOR ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT AU, BAC H 2898 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Feb 25, 2022
17575815 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE LUKE, DANIEL M 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2022
17386443 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME LI, MEIYA 2811 §112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 27, 2021

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