Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.

14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (93%)
§102 only1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
14
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAGAN, SEAN P 2 38.7% +31.0%
HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 1 81.3% +6.0%
PERENY, TYLER J 1 95.2% +5.6%
RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 1 93.6% +8.1%
BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE 1 98.2% +2.9%
STARK, JARRETT J 1 70.3% +11.2%
NGUYEN, HIEU P 1 92.0% +5.2%
NGUYEN, KHIEM D 1 85.7% +12.5%
IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 1 90.5% +7.1%
GARCES, NELSON Y 1 80.2% +2.7%

Quick Wins (8)

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
18230767 OFFSET CALIBRATION FOR SIGNAL RMS MEASUREMENT NGUYEN, HIEU P 60d overdue
18358394 BIASING CIRCUIT FOR RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER NGUYEN, KHIEM D 36d overdue
18213682 Group III Nitride Doherty Amplifier Using Different Epitaxial Structures IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 13d
18170773 MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS INCLUDING GALLIUM-NITRIDE DEVICES ON SILICON GARCES, NELSON Y 14d
18799565 SINGLE-ENDED INPUT BIAS ADAPTATION RECEIVER HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 19d
18502334 STACKED RF CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY USING TRANSISTOR DIE WITH THROUGH SILICON CARBIDE VIAS ON GATE AND/OR DRAIN RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 28d
18538580 BROADBAND ABSORPTIVE TERMINATION IN DIODE SWITCHES PERENY, TYLER J 33d
18466300 PACKAGED FLIP CHIP INTEGRATED PASSIVE DEVICES BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE 50d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17204550 SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS HAGAN, SEAN P 45d overdue
18449310 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND FABRICATION USING SUBLIMATION STARK, JARRETT J 42d overdue
18358394 BIASING CIRCUIT FOR RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER NGUYEN, KHIEM D 36d overdue
17176968 HIGH KAPPA SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS HAGAN, SEAN P 5d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2843 4
2812 2
2828 2
2849 1
2897 1
2898 1
2814 1
2891 1
2893 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18799565 SINGLE-ENDED INPUT BIAS ADAPTATION RECEIVER HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 2849 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Aug 09, 2024
18538580 BROADBAND ABSORPTIVE TERMINATION IN DIODE SWITCHES PERENY, TYLER J 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 13, 2023
18502334 STACKED RF CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY USING TRANSISTOR DIE WITH THROUGH SILICON CARBIDE VIAS ON GATE AND/OR DRAIN RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 06, 2023
18466300 PACKAGED FLIP CHIP INTEGRATED PASSIVE DEVICES BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18449310 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND FABRICATION USING SUBLIMATION STARK, JARRETT J 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18230767 OFFSET CALIBRATION FOR SIGNAL RMS MEASUREMENT NGUYEN, HIEU P 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18358394 BIASING CIRCUIT FOR RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER NGUYEN, KHIEM D 2843 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18213682 Group III Nitride Doherty Amplifier Using Different Epitaxial Structures IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18170773 MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS INCLUDING GALLIUM-NITRIDE DEVICES ON SILICON GARCES, NELSON Y 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 17, 2023
17951711 Barrier Structure for Sub-100 Nanometer Gate Length Devices WARD, ERIC A 2891 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17661418 DIAMOND-METAL COMPOSITE HIGH POWER DEVICE PACKAGES SANDVIK, BENJAMIN P 2812 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Apr 29, 2022
17364930 3D PRINTED INTERCONNECTS AND RESONATORS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES CUNNINGHAM, KIERAN MURRAY 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2021
17204550 SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2021
17176968 HIGH KAPPA SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2021

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