Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Netlist Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Computing & Software. Those matters are distributed across 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that the current prosecution workload is not concentrated in a single examination channel. The portfolio therefore presents a coordinated but distributed review structure for counsel managing responses and amendment strategy.
NGUYEN, THAN VINH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the busiest examiner accounts for only part of the workload, counsel should maintain matter-specific tracking rather than rely on a single examiner strategy. The art-unit distribution also supports reviewing each action on its own technical and procedural record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, THAN VINH | 1 | 91.0% | +4.2% |
| LIN, KATHERINE Y | 1 | 91.0% | +6.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585857 | HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEM WITH CONFIGURABLE ERROR THRESHOLDS AND FAILURE ANALYSIS CAPABILITY | LIN, KATHERINE Y | 36d overdue |
| 19315823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS IN A NETWORK HAVING A PLURALITY OF NODE | NGUYEN, THAN VINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2138 | 1 |
| 2113 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19315823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS IN A NETWORK HAVING A PLURALITY OF NODE | NGUYEN, THAN VINH | 2138 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2025 |
| 18585857 | HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEM WITH CONFIGURABLE ERROR THRESHOLDS AND FAILURE ANALYSIS CAPABILITY | LIN, KATHERINE Y | 2113 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNetlist Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Than Vinh Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Netlist Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
