Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Everspin Technologies Inc.

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due later (1)

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%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
75% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 1 77.1% -1.4%
KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C 1 81.3% +17.1%
BRADFORD, PETER 1 80.1% +4.2%
SCHOENHOLTZ, JOSEPH 1 91.2% -4.9%
CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N 1 78.4% +0.3%
MENZ, DOUGLAS M 1 88.3% +4.6%
TRAN, TRANG Q 1 80.9% +7.0%
NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 1 45.3% +13.0%

Quick Wins (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18968200 MEMORY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION AND METHODS THEREOF KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C 44d overdue
18674289 MAGNETORESISTIVE STACK/STRUCTURE AND METHODS THEREFOR BRADFORD, PETER 26d overdue
17670049 MAGNETORESISTIVE DEVICES AND METHODS THEREFOR MENZ, DOUGLAS M 14d
17533395 MAGNETORESISTIVE DEVICES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SUCH DEVICES TRAN, TRANG Q 14d
18479226 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH OXIDATION TIME TO SUPPRESS BIT ERROR RATE SCHOENHOLTZ, JOSEPH 79d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18968200 MEMORY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION AND METHODS THEREOF KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C 44d overdue
16175205 ANGLED SURFACE REMOVAL PROCESS AND STRUCTURE RELATING THERETO NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2897 2
2893 2
3991 1
2138 1
2813 1
2811 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19039506 MAGNETORESISTIVE STACK AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 3991 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2025
18968200 MEMORY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION AND METHODS THEREOF KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C 2138 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2024
18674289 MAGNETORESISTIVE STACK/STRUCTURE AND METHODS THEREFOR BRADFORD, PETER 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18479226 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH OXIDATION TIME TO SUPPRESS BIT ERROR RATE SCHOENHOLTZ, JOSEPH 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Oct 02, 2023
17659234 METHODS OF MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICES CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N 2813 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 14, 2022
17670049 MAGNETORESISTIVE DEVICES AND METHODS THEREFOR MENZ, DOUGLAS M 2897 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 11, 2022
17533395 MAGNETORESISTIVE DEVICES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SUCH DEVICES TRAN, TRANG Q 2811 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 23, 2021
16175205 ANGLED SURFACE REMOVAL PROCESS AND STRUCTURE RELATING THERETO NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 30, 2018

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