Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1,146 pending office actions • 242 art units • 860 examiners • 0 of 1,146 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2,516 patents granted in the last 365 days
International Business Machines Corporation has 1179 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio spans 872 distinct examiners and 246 distinct art units, creating extensive dispersion across both examination personnel and technical groups.
LI, LIANG Y is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. That assignment is a useful point for examiner-specific monitoring, but the overall profile requires systems that operate across hundreds of examiner and art-unit relationships.
The examiner count substantially exceeds the art-unit count, indicating that many technical groups involve multiple examiners. Counsel should distinguish art-unit trends from examiner practices when evaluating recurring eligibility, prior-art, written-description, or claim-scope issues.
At this volume, centralized controls for deadlines, disclosures, continuations, and related inventions are essential to consistent portfolio administration. Those controls should support, rather than replace, matter-level strategy because the same art unit may present different examination dynamics before different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 244 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. 244 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 | 83 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 349 (30%) |
| §103 only | 387 (34%) |
| §102 only | 49 (4%) |
| §112 only | 17 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (0%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (0%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 257 (22%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, LIANG Y | 6 | 62.0% | +68.3% |
| VAUGHN, RYAN C | 5 | 61.9% | +17.2% |
| WERNER, MARSHALL L | 5 | 65.8% | +41.3% |
| ONAT, UMUT | 4 | 79.7% | +28.7% |
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 4 | 80.8% | +18.2% |
| XIA, XUYANG | 4 | 72.7% | +52.4% |
| BOATMAN, CASEY PAUL | 4 | 84.5% | +9.7% |
| DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 4 | 66.7% | +51.9% |
| RIFKIN, BEN M | 4 | 44.2% | +17.1% |
| WENG, PEI YONG | 4 | 79.5% | +22.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17709628 | STACKED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS WITH REDUCED GATE-TO-DRAIN PARASITIC CAPACITANCE | BOATMAN, CASEY PAUL | 29d overdue |
| 18616915 | TAPE GUIDE ASSEMBLY | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 40d |
| 18616936 | TAPE PATH WITH MOVABLE TAPE SUPPORT | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 50d |
| 18758384 | LOW CROSSTALK PIGGY-BACK TAPE HEAD | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 84d |
| 18679159 | HYBRID HfO2-BASED FERROELECTRIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND METAL-FERROELECTRIC-SEMICONDUCTOR CAPACITOR FOR TRAINING AND/OR FINE-TUNING | BOATMAN, CASEY PAUL | — |
| 18664889 | ZERO TRACK SKIP WITH IN-LINE VIA TO METAL LINE CONNECTION | BOATMAN, CASEY PAUL | — |
| 17553967 | WAFER BONDING FOR STACKED TRANSISTORS | BOATMAN, CASEY PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17087568 | PROBABILISTIC NONLINEAR RELATIONSHIPS CROSS-MULTI TIME SERIES AND EXTERNAL FACTORS FOR IMPROVED MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES MODELING AND FORECASTING | HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON | 225d overdue |
| 18357227 | Sensitive Data Identification In Real-Time for Data Streaming | OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K | 219d overdue |
| 17115953 | UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION USING JOINT LOSS AND MODEL PARAMETER SEARCH | HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON | 209d overdue |
| 17555689 | IDENTIFYING ALTERNATIVE SET OF DIGITAL ID DOCUMENTS USED TO VERIFY USER MEETS ID REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ASSOCIATED ACTIVITY OR EVENT | WALSH, DANIEL I | 183d overdue |
| 15010439 | NUMERICAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS | NGUYEN, HENRY K | 157d overdue |
| 18188819 | RESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING | KARIMY, TIMOR | 150d overdue |
| 17808555 | SYSTEM LOG PATTERN ANALYSIS BY IMAGE SIMILARITY RECOGNITION | MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S | 147d overdue |
| 17888573 | SERIALIZED BROADCAST COMMAND MESSAGING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING (SMP) SYSTEM | YU, HENRY W | 146d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17210803 | DETECT FIELD INTERACTIONS BASED ON RANDOM TREE STUMPS | RIFKIN, BEN M | 46d overdue |
| 17477194 | MODEL UPDATE DETERMINATION | LI, LIANG Y | 4d overdue |
| 18311504 | TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ON PRIVATE DATA IN UNTRUSTED ENVIRONMENT USING ANONYMIZED DATA AND ENCRYPTED DATA | XIA, XUYANG | 16d |
| 18327156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MARKOV DECISION PROCESS SOLUTIONS | LI, LIANG Y | 29d |
| 18616915 | TAPE GUIDE ASSEMBLY | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 40d |
| 17452517 | ADAPTIVE DRIFT DFETECTION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR NON-STATIONARY DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS | VAUGHN, RYAN C | 47d |
| 18616936 | TAPE PATH WITH MOVABLE TAPE SUPPORT | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 50d |
| 18758384 | LOW CROSSTALK PIGGY-BACK TAPE HEAD | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 32 |
| 3624 | 22 |
| 2817 | 22 |
| 2898 | 22 |
| 2125 | 21 |
| 2812 | 20 |
| 2143 | 20 |
| 2897 | 18 |
| 2146 | 17 |
| 2197 | 17 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19345953 | DATASET PREPARATION | CAO, PHUONG THAO | 2164 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19330986 | STATISTICAL ACCESS PREDICTION WITH DATABASES | WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL | 2165 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19316673 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERYING A DATABASE BY INTEGRATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH DATA STREAMING | ASPINWALL, EVAN S | 2156 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19235124 | STRING COMPARISON DEVICE AND METHOD | AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19221052 | CUSTOMIZED PRICING LOGIC FOR TRANSACTIONS IN AN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM | FELTEN, DANIEL S | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19210296 | BRANCH PREDICTION USING SPECULATIVE INDEXING AND INTRALINE COUNT | VICARY, KEITH E | 2183 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19201124 | COGNITIVE DATA REPATRIATION AND DATA REMOVAL | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | 2433 | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19196558 | OBJECT STORAGE SERVICE IMPLEMENTING A DISTRIBUTED STREAMING PLATFORM | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 2163 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19188360 | ITERATIVE AUDIO AI VALIDATION AND ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM | AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | 2657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19095323 | PERPLEXITY-BASED PROMPT GENERATION FOR COMMUNICATION STYLES | WEAVER, ADAM MICHAEL | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19089150 | TEXT ATTRIBUTION VIA SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19082558 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROBUSTNESS TO UNSTRUCTURED PROMPTS | ORTIZ DITREN, BELIX M | 2164 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19069130 | DETERMINING IMPROVED PARAMETER VALUES FOR OPERATING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL USING MACHINE LEARNING | LEE, JANGWOEN | 2656 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19067122 | CONTEXTUALIZATION OF VERSION CONTROL REQUESTS UTILIZING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR AI BASED INFUSION | GANGER, LAUREN ZANNAH | 2156 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19066345 | GENERATIVE AI-BASED QUESTIONNAIRE AND TRANSCRIPT GENERATION FOR VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS | VU, KHOA | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19062569 | DETECTING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) DRIFT USING FOCUSED-LANGUAGE EXPANSION | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19061533 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN COMPETITION TO SELECT AN OPTIMAL RESPONSE TO A PROMPT | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19059254 | EXTENDED REALITY QUALITY CONTROL PLATFORM | THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19057428 | MEMORY-EFFICIENT DECODING WITH KV CACHE COMPRESSION FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19055075 | MANAGING META INFORMATION ON BINARY LEVEL | MAI, LAM T | 2845 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19051249 | DYNAMIC ACTIVATION OF SINGLETON SERVICE | WOO, ANDREW M | 2458 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19046843 | USING A VOLTAGE CONTROL LOOP TO MODIFY VOLTAGES IN A PROCESSING UNIT | CLEARY, THOMAS J | 2175 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19042142 | QUERY SEQUENCE OBFUSCATION USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATION OF DECOY TOPICS | HALE, BROOKS T | 2166 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19040291 | CRYOGENIC QUANTUM TUNNEL INTERCONNECTS AT A DISTANCE | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19037910 | NEGATIVE ATTENTION PATTERN NOTIFICATION | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19035112 | DETECT AND REUSE SCAN RESULTS TO OPTIMIZE SECURE SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN | LI, MENG | 2437 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19032053 | OCCUPATIONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT USING DIGITAL HUMANS AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19026957 | THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEM FOR LASER-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWDER FUSION MANUFACTURING | NELSON, JAMEL M | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026835 | ADAPTING PRESENTATION CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY IN RESPONSE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS AND PROGRESS OF THE PRESENTATION | TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY | 3626 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19020895 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED INTERACTION RISK ASSESSMENT | DINH, KHANH Q | 2458 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19020392 | DYNAMIC STRENGTHENING USING 3D PRINTING AND ROBOTIC SUPPORT | COLLINS, GARY | 2115 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19016228 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PROJECT RISK PREDICTION WITH CONFLICT HANDLING AND DECISION EXPLANATION | LEE, PO HAN | 3623 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19014897 | FEOL AND BEOL-AWARE MEMORY CELL BUILD | HUANG, MIN | 2827 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19011705 | ELECTRONICALLY PARSE COMPLICATED TABLE | KIM, JONATHAN C | 2655 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19011569 | PRE-PRUNING OF ROUTES FOR OPTIMAL LOGISTICS DISTRIBUTION | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 3664 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19010743 | ENSURING GENUINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN VIRTUAL REALITY EDUCATIONAL SESSION | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19010275 | REDUNDANT CONTROLLERS TO IMPROVE ROBUSTNESS IN VOLTAGE REGULATION MODULES | LEE, JYE-JUNE | 2838 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19009520 | HEARING AID COMBINED WITH AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES | LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 2694 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008873 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND VISUALIZATION OF ANALYSIS PATHS | JOSHI, SURAJ M | 2447 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008693 | CONTROLLING OPERATION OF AERIAL VEHICLES FOR ACOUSTIC EXTINGUISHING OF FIRE | MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | 3662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19009223 | HANDWRITING RECOGNITION USING EXTRACTED TRAJECTORY INFORMATION | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008667 | DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF ANOMALIES IN ASSESSMENT DATA | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008881 | FIVE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING WITH CNC INTEGRATION | NELSON, JAMEL M | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008708 | GENERATION OF CONTROL INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTROL OPERATION OF CONVEYOR | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19009249 | SCHEDULING EVENTS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT | NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | 2459 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19007682 | MANAGING AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION IN TEXTUAL DATA FROM USER INPUT | CHEN, SHIN HON | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19007851 | NOISE LEARNING OF MEASUREMENTS WITH KNOWN STATE INITIALIZATION | BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON | 2111 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19007645 | EFFICIENT TRANSFER OF AUGMETNED REALITY OBJECTS | YANG, ANDREW GUS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19003724 | RESILIENT DETERMINISTIC ENCRYPTION EXTENSION USING ASSOCIATED METADATA STRUCTURES | ZOUBAIR, NOURA | 2434 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18999753 | VEHICLE CLONING DETERMINATION USING GEO-LOCATION DISPARITY | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialInternational Business Machines Corporation has 1,146 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 242 art units and 860 examiners.
Liang Y Li has the most, with 6 of International Business Machines Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
