Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Macronix International Co. Ltd.

25 pending office actions • 15 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 118 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
3
Due this week
3
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
22
Medium (88%)
2
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only17 (68%)
§102 only5 (20%)
§112 only2 (8%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
16% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
20
Semiconductors
80% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SIDDIQUE, MUSHFIQUE 2 89.6% +6.4%
ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 2 38.9% +29.9%
PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN 1 88.6% +3.0%
STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 1 84.6% +25.0%
PARIKH, KALPIT 1 81.6% +8.9%
BUI, THA-O H 1 88.1% +4.2%
KING, DOUGLAS 1 79.8% +4.3%
WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 1 100.0% +0.0%
NGUYEN, KHANH V 1 93.6% +1.9%
NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 1 66.7% +48.6%

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
18329583 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY FOR ADJUSTING PROGRAMMING VERIFICATION VOLTAGE AND PROGRAMMING METHOD THEREOF SIDDIQUE, MUSHFIQUE 92d overdue
18474228 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ERASE METHOD TO GENERATE PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION DATA AND MEMORY DEVICE THEREFORE WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 91d overdue
18610368 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF BUI, THA-O H 23d overdue
18777683 INPUT BUFFER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN 2d overdue
18652875 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF PARIKH, KALPIT 2d overdue
18750178 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 22d
18371217 AMPLIFIER WITH SOURCE DEGENERATION NGUYEN, KHANH V 22d
18760123 MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM SIDDIQUE, MUSHFIQUE 57d

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
17930450 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 32d overdue
18162718 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FOR 3D MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 31d overdue
18750178 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 22d
18466820 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2825 5
2824 3
2899 3
2812 2
2898 2
2849 1
2137 1
2843 1
2818 1
2817 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18777683 INPUT BUFFER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18760123 MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM SIDDIQUE, MUSHFIQUE 2825 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Jul 01, 2024
18750178 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 2825 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18652875 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF PARIKH, KALPIT 2137 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18610368 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF BUI, THA-O H 2825 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18435006 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE, COMPUTING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTING METHOD KING, DOUGLAS 2824 §102 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18474228 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ERASE METHOD TO GENERATE PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION DATA AND MEMORY DEVICE THEREFORE WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 2825 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18371217 AMPLIFIER WITH SOURCE DEGENERATION NGUYEN, KHANH V 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18466820 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18465166 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TUNGSTEN LAYER SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Sep 12, 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
18451159 MEMORY DEVICE LE, THAO P 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18366116 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE ANDERSON, WILLIAM H 2817 §102 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18329583 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY FOR ADJUSTING PROGRAMMING VERIFICATION VOLTAGE AND PROGRAMMING METHOD THEREOF SIDDIQUE, MUSHFIQUE 2825 §103 Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
18323473 ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODING CIRCUIT LU, HWEI-MIN 2142 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18312207 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME MOVVA, AMAR 2898 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 04, 2023
18139410 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME NGUYEN, HIEN N 2824 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18302804 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME ESKRIDGE, CORY W 3624 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2023
18184078 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME PETERSON, ERIK T 2898 §102 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18162718 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FOR 3D MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 2899 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2023
18150211 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME TAN, DAVE 2897 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
17930450 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 2899 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2022
17819367 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT HAIDER, WASIUL 2812 Other Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2022
17749194 ONLINE CONTINUAL LEARNING METHOD AND SYSTEM RIFKIN, BEN M 2123 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
17701725 MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING MAC AND HAMMING DISTANCE OPERATIONS USING UNARY CODE WAJE, CARLO C 2151 §112 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2022

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