Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Monolithic Power Systems Inc.

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
5
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AHMAD, SHAHZEB K 1 79.4% +4.7%
RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O 1 71.6% +20.4%
GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 1 72.2% +21.0%
IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 1 90.5% +7.1%
WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18469800 DOUBLE-SIDE-COOLING POWER MODULE IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 8d
18454362 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH TRENCH STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER 14d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18545071 NON-ISOLATED RESONANT CONVERTER AND DRIVING CIRCUIT THEREOF RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O 43d overdue
18512540 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH GROUP III-V COMPOUND MATERIAL GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2838 2
2891 1
2812 1
2818 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18756602 SWITCHING CONVERTER WITH PRE-CHARGE CIRCUIT AHMAD, SHAHZEB K 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18545071 NON-ISOLATED RESONANT CONVERTER AND DRIVING CIRCUIT THEREOF RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18512540 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH GROUP III-V COMPOUND MATERIAL GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 2891 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18469800 DOUBLE-SIDE-COOLING POWER MODULE IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18454362 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH TRENCH STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 23, 2023

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