Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
20 pending office actions • 14 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 122 patents granted in the last 365 days
Macronix International Co., Ltd. has 22 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 22 distinct examiners across 14 distinct art units. The docket therefore has complete examiner dispersion alongside repeated art-unit placement, making art-unit coordination relevant to portfolio management.
AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner-level cluster is identified, so counsel should focus on recurring technical themes within art units and tailor responses to each examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 9 (45%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 4 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE | 1 | 95.2% | -0.9% |
| HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | 1 | 98.8% | +2.2% |
| HUANG, MIN | 1 | 90.3% | +9.8% |
| SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 1 | 75.0% | +16.7% |
| GRAHAM, KRETELIA | 1 | 80.1% | +10.0% |
| LUKE, DANIEL M | 1 | 71.4% | +18.7% |
| TRAN, TIEN | 1 | 89.7% | +14.3% |
| HOANG, DZUNG T | 1 | 77.8% | +0.0% |
| BOWEN, ADAM S | 1 | 96.5% | +2.3% |
| AU, BAC H | 1 | 81.1% | +10.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049068 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY OPERATION METHOD | AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE | — |
| 19023284 | MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | — |
| 18964183 | IN-MEMORY SEARCHING IN NOR FLASH MEMORY USING EUCLIDEAN (L2) DISTANCE COMPUTING | HUANG, MIN | — |
| 18679744 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GRAHAM, KRETELIA | — |
| 18642831 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TRAN, TIEN | — |
| 18612605 | 3D HETEROGENEOUSLY INTERCONNECTED MEMORY | BOWEN, ADAM S | — |
| 18608932 | 3D MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | AU, BAC H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888157 | 3D MEMORY DEVICE | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | — |
| 18671241 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LUKE, DANIEL M | — |
| 18631117 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | HOANG, DZUNG T | — |
| 18471292 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | AHMAD, KHAJA | — |
| 18177138 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | RONO, VINCENT KIPKEMOI | — |
| 17686478 | TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY (TCAM)-BASED TRAINING METHOD FOR GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AND MEMORY DEVICE USING THE SAME | RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888157 | 3D MEMORY DEVICE | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | — |
| 18679744 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GRAHAM, KRETELIA | — |
| 18671241 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LUKE, DANIEL M | — |
| 18642831 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TRAN, TIEN | — |
| 18608932 | 3D MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | AU, BAC H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 4 |
| 2824 | 2 |
| 2827 | 2 |
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049068 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY OPERATION METHOD | AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19023284 | MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | 2827 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18964183 | IN-MEMORY SEARCHING IN NOR FLASH MEMORY USING EUCLIDEAN (L2) DISTANCE COMPUTING | HUANG, MIN | 2827 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18888157 | 3D MEMORY DEVICE | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18679744 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GRAHAM, KRETELIA | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18671241 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LUKE, DANIEL M | 2896 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18642831 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TRAN, TIEN | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18631117 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | HOANG, DZUNG T | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18612605 | 3D HETEROGENEOUSLY INTERCONNECTED MEMORY | BOWEN, ADAM S | 2897 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18608932 | 3D MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | AU, BAC H | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18534862 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | LINDSEY, COLE LEON | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18489078 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELL, METHOD OF FABRICATING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELL, AND MEMORY CELL ARRAY THEREOF | STEPHENSON, KENNETH STEPHEN | 2898 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18471292 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | AHMAD, KHAJA | 2813 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18466820 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18464262 | MULTI-CIRCUIT CONTROL SYSTEM AND READING METHOD FOR STATUS INFORMATION THEREOF | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18323473 | ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODING CIRCUIT | LU, HWEI-MIN | 2142 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18312207 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | MOVVA, AMAR | 2898 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18177138 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | RONO, VINCENT KIPKEMOI | 2891 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18164623 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FOR 3D MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN | 2892 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17686478 | TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY (TCAM)-BASED TRAINING METHOD FOR GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AND MEMORY DEVICE USING THE SAME | RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS | 2151 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMacronix International Co., Ltd. has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 14 art units and 20 examiners.
Elizabeth Rose Agger has the most, with 1 of Macronix International Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
