Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

MaxLinear, Inc.

26 pending office actions • 22 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

26
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
4
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
24
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (4%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only23 (88%)
§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
19
Information Tech
73% of docket
5
Communications
19% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

260 h
Manual time on pending OAs
52 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
91 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 1 84.4% +3.7%
AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE 1 84.5% +9.1%
ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 1 83.6% +21.5%
WONG, XAVIER S 1 87.9% +10.2%
KHAWAR, SAAD 1 85.4% +8.0%
MORRIS, JOHN J 1 60.9% +19.7%
PATEL, CHANDRAHAS B 1 88.3% +7.2%
AHN, SUNG S 1 78.4% +12.2%
PATEL, NIMESH G 1 77.0% +7.5%
NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 1 80.0% +11.8%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18544176 MASTER NODE SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 111d overdue
18608840 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WONG, XAVIER S 45d overdue
18602001 MULTI-LINK DEVICE OPERATION KHAWAR, SAAD 16d overdue
18778848 FEC DECODING FOR CHANNELS WITH MEMORY CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 3d overdue
18613098 LOW LATENCY MULTI-LINK DEVICE (MLD) PHY/MAC RELAY (LLMR) ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 1d overdue
18621031 WIRELESS MESH NETWORK OPTIMIZATION AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE 5d
18589408 BEAMFORMING ESTIMATION WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE PATEL, CHANDRAHAS B 7d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18544176 MASTER NODE SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 111d overdue
18608840 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WONG, XAVIER S 45d overdue
18613098 LOW LATENCY MULTI-LINK DEVICE (MLD) PHY/MAC RELAY (LLMR) ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 1d overdue
18596556 DATA TRANSFORM OPERATIONS IN A DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATOR MORRIS, JOHN J 27d
18440880 FREQUENCY SPREADING FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATIONS AHN, SUNG S 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3648 2
2415 2
2412 2
2462 2
2112 1
2478 1
2152 1
2464 1
2631 1
2176 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18778848 FEC DECODING FOR CHANNELS WITH MEMORY CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 2112 §112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18621031 WIRELESS MESH NETWORK OPTIMIZATION AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE 3648 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18613098 LOW LATENCY MULTI-LINK DEVICE (MLD) PHY/MAC RELAY (LLMR) ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18608840 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WONG, XAVIER S 2415 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18602001 MULTI-LINK DEVICE OPERATION KHAWAR, SAAD 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18596556 DATA TRANSFORM OPERATIONS IN A DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATOR MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18589408 BEAMFORMING ESTIMATION WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE PATEL, CHANDRAHAS B 2464 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18440880 FREQUENCY SPREADING FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATIONS AHN, SUNG S 2631 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18427692 SYSTEM COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE OVER PCIe (PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS) LINK PATEL, NIMESH G 2176 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18544176 MASTER NODE SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 2414 §103 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18537736 WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION HARPER, KEVIN C 2462 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18536180 MODULATING TONES IN A LONG TRAINING FIELD HUYNH, KHOA B 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18506949 SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO (SINR)-AWARE SPATIAL REUSE DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18501676 CABLE MODEM TRANSCEIVER, CABLE MODEM, CABLE MODEM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROCESSOR FOR A CABLE MODEM TRANSCEIVER, METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A CABLE MODEM TRANSCEIVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM HAIDER, SYED 2633 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18484443 HARDWARE DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE IN A DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATOR HUYNH, KIM T 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18348278 DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATION USING INPUT/OUTPUT VIRTUALIZATION RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 06, 2023
18295264 RECEIVER SENSITIVITY IMPROVEMENT BY PASSIVE INTERMODULATION CANCELLATION TSVEY, GENNADIY 2648 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18194404 SPATIAL REUSE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION THOMAS, WILFRED 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18162606 GAIN CONTROL IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED RADAR SYSTEM WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 3648 §103 Final Rejection 162d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18058199 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A PATH IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK CHAU, PETER P 2476 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17811858 BANDWIDTH SIGNALING FOR CONTROL FRAMES DEFAUW, THAD N 2412 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2022
17710500 EQUALIZATION OF DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION SIGNAL BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 2632 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 31, 2022
17572874 ADAPTIVE RADIO DUONG, DUC T 2467 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 11, 2022
17451487 DATA PACKET PROCESSING SYSTEM ON A CHIP TRAN, THINH D 2466 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Oct 19, 2021
17237383 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH CODED DATA FRAMES ALEY, MEHEDI S 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2021
17165910 HASHING WITH DIFFERING HASH SIZE AND COMPRESSION SIZE HO, ANDREW N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 02, 2021

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