Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
87 pending office actions • 42 art units • 82 examiners • 0 of 87 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 128 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microchip Technology Incorporated has 89 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This volume of work is spread across 43 distinct art units, reflecting the technical scope of the company's semiconductor innovations. Prosecution involves 84 distinct examiners, which suggests a fragmented examiner landscape for the firm's legal team. ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N is the busiest examiner, though they only account for 2 pending office actions.
The fact that 84 distinct examiners are handling 89 pending office actions means that most examiners are reviewing very few matters for the firm. This distribution requires the firm to manage various examiner preferences across 43 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N, manages 2 pending office actions, while the remaining workload is divided among the other assigned staff. Practitioners should prepare for a wide range of procedural styles given the 84 distinct examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 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. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (3%) |
| §103 only | 34 (39%) |
| §102 only | 5 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 41 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | 2 | 86.4% | +2.5% |
| GUYTON, PHILIP A | 2 | 83.9% | +8.6% |
| ALI, SHAWKAT M | 2 | 89.1% | +20.5% |
| NGUYEN, STEVE N | 2 | 74.4% | +19.6% |
| IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 2 | 81.0% | +23.5% |
| CHANG, JOSEPH | 1 | 89.8% | +3.9% |
| PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 71.4% | -3.4% |
| JOSEPH, JAISON | 1 | 82.8% | +12.4% |
| KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 1 | 79.4% | +24.0% |
| LOTTICH, JOSHUA P | 1 | 90.3% | +3.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18202356 | ELECTRONIC PACKAGE INCLUDING IC DIES ARRANGED IN INVERTED RELATIVE ORIENTATIONS | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 16d |
| 18660355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING DATA FROM A DEGRADED RAID VOLUME USING AN ACCELERATOR ENGINE | GUYTON, PHILIP A | 34d |
| 18942876 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION | ALI, SHAWKAT M | 56d |
| 19257731 | VAPOR CELLS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHANG, JOSEPH | — |
| 19192709 | PROGRAMMABLE FAULT VIOLATION FILTER | GUYTON, PHILIP A | — |
| 18215351 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) PACKAGE INCLUDING A CAPACITOR FORMED IN A CONDUCTIVE ROUTING REGION | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18453979 | SETTING A PERFORMANCE MODE OF AN RF RECEIVER FRONTEND | SHERIF, FATUMA G | 53d overdue |
| 18892276 | REDUCING STARTUP TIME OF A TRELLIS-BASED MLSE DECODER | GHULAMALI, QUTBUDDIN | 26d overdue |
| 19034553 | DETERMINING HEALTH OF WORDLINES FOR CONTINUED USER DATA PROGRAMMING | DUDEK JR, EDWARD J | 17d overdue |
| 17468574 | System of Multiple Stacks in a Processor Devoid of an Effective Address Generator | HUISMAN, DAVID J | 15d overdue |
| 18056139 | VIDEO-DATA ENCODER | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 13d |
| 18630327 | PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR LIFE SAFETY DEVICES | WU, ZHEN Y | 30d |
| 18354559 | METHODS OF PACKAGING MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES UTILIZING PANELS AND RELATED TEMPORARY STRUCTURES | KIM, PAUL D | 30d |
| 18153002 | PARALLELED TRANSISTOR CELLS OF POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 30d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611441 | DETERMINING BERLEKAMP DISCREPANCY VALUES | NGUYEN, STEVE N | 18d overdue |
| 18202356 | ELECTRONIC PACKAGE INCLUDING IC DIES ARRANGED IN INVERTED RELATIVE ORIENTATIONS | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 16d |
| 18942876 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION | ALI, SHAWKAT M | 56d |
| 19223772 | SIGNAL QUALITY ANALYSIS BASED ON DIGITAL CORRELATION | JOSEPH, JAISON | — |
| 19224032 | VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON MEMORY DEVICE TEMPERATURE PROFILING | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | — |
| 19070424 | SERDES-SPECIFIC GROUPS OF PAM-MODULATED SYMBOLS | ALI, SHAWKAT M | — |
| 19017648 | REFINED HARD BIT READ VOLTAGES | NGUYEN, STEVE N | — |
| 18215351 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) PACKAGE INCLUDING A CAPACITOR FORMED IN A CONDUCTIVE ROUTING REGION | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2139 | 4 |
| 2132 | 3 |
| 2137 | 3 |
| 2685 | 3 |
| 2858 | 3 |
| 2817 | 3 |
| 2111 | 2 |
| 2632 | 2 |
| 2838 | 2 |
| 2815 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19257731 | VAPOR CELLS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHANG, JOSEPH | 2842 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19224033 | PASS THROUGH VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT TO COMPENSATE FOR CROSS-TEMPERATURE EFFECTS | PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A | 2132 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19223772 | SIGNAL QUALITY ANALYSIS BASED ON DIGITAL CORRELATION | JOSEPH, JAISON | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19224032 | VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON MEMORY DEVICE TEMPERATURE PROFILING | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19198492 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWAPPING FAULTY MEMORY ADDRESSES IN A MICROCONTROLLER | ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19192709 | PROGRAMMABLE FAULT VIOLATION FILTER | GUYTON, PHILIP A | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19186884 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAULT DETECTION IN A DUAL CORE LOCKSTEP MICROCONTROLLER | LOTTICH, JOSHUA P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19183680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CORE ACCESS CONTROL ON A DUAL-CORE MICROCONTROLLER | SUN, MICHAEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19169556 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING SPI CONTROLLER FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY OPERATION | BORROMEO, JUANITO C | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19093416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IN COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL | KORSAK, OLEG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SERIAL COMMUNICATION COLLISION | BARRY, LANCE LEONARD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19086448 | Series Architecture Output Driver for Input-Output with Constant Step | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19079714 | SEGMENTATION OF A FLASH TRANSLATION LAYER OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE WITH LARGE STORAGE CAPACITY | SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J | 2137 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19077616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING SPI MONITOR FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY OPERATION | SNYDER, STEVEN G | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19070424 | SERDES-SPECIFIC GROUPS OF PAM-MODULATED SYMBOLS | ALI, SHAWKAT M | 4100 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19056286 | PHOTO CHAMBER WITH LIGHT SHROUDS | GARBER, ERIN R | 2878 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19051351 | 10BASE-T1S TRANSCEIVER REGISTER ACCESS USING CONTROLLER REMAPPING | MAMO, ELIAS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19045652 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE ENUMERATION OF PCIe DEVICES | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19040720 | A SYSTEM FIRMWARE ALGORITHM TO REDUCE READ ERRORS IN CASES OF CROSS-TEMPERATURE USING BACKGROUND DUMMY READ OPERATIONS | PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | 2137 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19034553 | DETERMINING HEALTH OF WORDLINES FOR CONTINUED USER DATA PROGRAMMING | DUDEK JR, EDWARD J | 2132 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19021154 | PROGRAMMING DUMMY DATA OR PERFORMING FLASH WRITE ON PARTIALLY PROGRAMMED MEMORY BLOCKS OF VIRTUAL BLOCKS | BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. | 2825 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19017648 | REFINED HARD BIT READ VOLTAGES | NGUYEN, STEVE N | 2111 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2025 |
| 19002635 | GENERATING A LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL DATA STRUCTURE STORED BY A HOST DEVICE | LOONAN, ERIC T | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18984995 | PROGRAM ERROR HANDLING AT A STORAGE DEVICE | ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18985001 | READ CACHING FOR A SUBSEQUENT READ OPERATION | LI, ZHUO H | 2133 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18967246 | NAMESPACE DATA SEGREGATION IN A MULTI-NAMESPACE MEMORY DEVICE | VERDERAMO III, RALPH A | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18966003 | TUNING A SLIDING MODE OBSERVER FOR A PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18962376 | DISPLACED RECEIVER DETECTION IN A WIRELESS POWER SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS | INGE, JOSEPH N | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18957302 | INITIATING SELF CLEANING BASED ON SENSOR DRIFT | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18953161 | CAPACITANCE SENSOR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTION DEVICE | MILLER, DANIEL R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18942876 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION | ALI, SHAWKAT M | 2633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18927229 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SOFTWARE PROGRAMMABLE CACHE MEMORY | KHAN, MASUD K | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | 117d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18909937 | GENERATING A LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR A SOLID STATE DRIVE USING SECTORS OF DIFFERENT SIZES | YEW, CHIE W | 2139 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18908932 | SMOKE DETECTOR LIGHT SOURCE AND SENSOR TO EMIT AND DETECT POLARIZED LIGHT | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18905830 | POE PD Redundant System | PATEL, HETUL B | 3992 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18905252 | SMART CARD AND READER USING ULTRA-WIDE BAND COMMUNICATION | ST CYR, DANIEL | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18904263 | HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | WIEGAND, TYLER J | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18899769 | MULTI-PROCESS SELF-CLEANING DEVICE | KO, JASON Y | 1714 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18892276 | REDUCING STARTUP TIME OF A TRELLIS-BASED MLSE DECODER | GHULAMALI, QUTBUDDIN | 2632 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18890469 | SENSOR INCLUDING AN ANODIZED POROUS LAYER AND METHOD OF FORMING A SENSOR | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18828739 | TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | AZONGHA, SARDIS F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18826614 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | ALBRECHT, PETER M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18799740 | REDUCED STATE MLSE DECODING | MALEK, LEILA | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18759059 | REFERENCE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE FOR CAPACITIVE SENSING | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18755022 | METHOD INCLUDING UNDER-ETCHING AN ION-INDUCED DAMAGE LAYER TO FACILITATE SEPARATION OF A SUBSTRATE FILM LAYER FROM AN UNDERLYING SUBSTRATE BULK REGION | LU, JIONG-PING | 1713 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18747833 | METHOD INCLUDING AN ION BEAM IMPLANT AND STRESSED FILM FOR SEPARATING A SUBSTRATE FILM REGION FROM A BULK SUBSTRATE REGION | WHALEN, DANIEL B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18745685 | DETERMINE GAIN MARGIN FOR A CRYSTAL DRIVER | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18740864 | APPARATUS FORMED FROM ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS HAVING DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE THICKNESSES AND METHODS OF FORMING AN APPARATUS FROM ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS HAVING DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE THICKNESSES | LIU, XIAOMING | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18739805 | FINFET DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18738371 | Transistor and Method for Manufacturing Same | WILCZEWSKI, MARY A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMicrochip Technology Incorporated has 87 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 42 art units and 82 examiners.
Khamdan N Alrobaie has the most, with 2 of Microchip Technology Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.