Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Marvell Asia Pte. Ltd.

24 pending office actions • 23 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 139 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
3
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

1
Hard (4%)
21
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (4%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only20 (83%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only1 (4%)
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
13
Information Tech
54% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
8
Semiconductors
33% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GANNON, LEVI 1 82.6% +6.8%
KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 1 79.6% +36.9%
BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 1 84.4% +5.1%
CHANG, DANIEL D 1 91.3% +3.9%
MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA 1 60.0% +39.2%
PANWALKAR, VINEETA S 1 91.1% +8.6%
PATEL, NIMESH G 1 77.0% +7.5%
BRITT, CYNTHIA H 1 95.1% +1.9%
SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL 1 50.6% +45.2%
HENNING, MATTHEW T 1 70.9% +18.9%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18934506 TWO-STAGE DATA SERIALIZATION CHANG, DANIEL D 30d overdue
18893070 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE ON-CHIP MEMORY CONFIGURATION TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION MECHANISMS BRITT, CYNTHIA H 13d
18913833 TRACKING OF SAMPLING PHASE IN A RECEIVER DEVICE PANWALKAR, VINEETA S 29d
19020657 Method and Apparatus for Controlling Clock Cycle Time GANNON, LEVI 41d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18939380 LOAD BALANCING FOR WEIGHTED EQUAL COST MULTI-PATH (ECMP) BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 12d

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
18939010 MANAGING PATCHING OF WRITE-LIMITED MEMORY WITH A HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 3d overdue
18915459 Self-diagnosis for in-vehicle networks MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA 19d
18762385 VIRTUALIZED HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL 40d
18737531 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOUD PLATFORM FOR SECURE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINING AND INFERENCE HENNING, MATTHEW T 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2874 2
2849 1
2494 1
2457 1
2844 1
3669 1
2635 1
2176 1
2111 1
3698 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19020657 Method and Apparatus for Controlling Clock Cycle Time GANNON, LEVI 2849 §102 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jan 14, 2025
18939010 MANAGING PATCHING OF WRITE-LIMITED MEMORY WITH A HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2024
18939380 LOAD BALANCING FOR WEIGHTED EQUAL COST MULTI-PATH (ECMP) BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §101 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18934506 TWO-STAGE DATA SERIALIZATION CHANG, DANIEL D 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18915459 Self-diagnosis for in-vehicle networks MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA 3669 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18913833 TRACKING OF SAMPLING PHASE IN A RECEIVER DEVICE PANWALKAR, VINEETA S 2635 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Oct 11, 2024
18908526 SLEEP SIGNALING HANDSHAKE FOR ETHERNET PATEL, NIMESH G 2176 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18893070 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE ON-CHIP MEMORY CONFIGURATION TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION MECHANISMS BRITT, CYNTHIA H 2111 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 23, 2024
18762385 VIRTUALIZED HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL 3698 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jul 02, 2024
18737531 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOUD PLATFORM FOR SECURE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINING AND INFERENCE HENNING, MATTHEW T 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18596846 Near-end Crosstalk Mitigation in a SerDes Device NGUYEN, BRIAN D 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18408185 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING KEYS FOR ENCRYPTION AND/OR DECRYPTION PEARSON, DAVID J 2407 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18406944 Scalable Packet Processing BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18462470 Reduction of four-wave mixing crosstalk in optical links WONG, ERIC K 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18454835 Gate All-Around (GAA) Field Effect Transistors (FETS) Formed on Both Sides of a Substrate NGUYEN, DAO H 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18348041 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE EXPOSED DIE PACKAGE STRUCTURE WITH ADHESIVE VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18143743 CHIRPED OPTICAL MODULATOR SMITH, CHAD 2874 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending May 05, 2023
18167912 Three-Dimensional Device Package with Vertical Heat Pipes CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Feb 13, 2023
18097423 TUNABLE LASER HAVING RING RESONATORS WITH LOW Q ZHANG, YUANDA 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2023
17686676 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING FLOATING POINT HARDWARE EXCEPTION LE, PHAT NGOC 2182 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17686689 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING FLOATING POINT HARDWARE EXCEPTION GUDAS, JAKOB OSCAR 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17594150 System and Method for Improving a Processing System using Learning Systems KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §112 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2021
17246445 System and Method for Consumerizing Cloud Computing KAMRAN, MEHRAN 2196 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2021
16920107 NETWORK SWITCHING WITH CO-RESIDENT DATA-PLANE AND NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLERS LAM, YEE F 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Jul 02, 2020

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