Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Next Silicon Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's applications. For a practitioner, this means that the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner preferences and procedural requirements. The spread across distinct art units, which also total 2, indicates that the company's filings are being vetted by different specialized groups within the USPTO.
WARREN, TRACY A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are split evenly, each examiner handles exactly 1 pending office action for the company. This distribution suggests a decentralized prosecution environment where no single examiner or art unit holds a majority of the active cases. Practitioners should be prepared to tailor their strategies to the individual styles of both examiners, as the current data shows a lack of concentration in the personnel handling the company's intellectual property matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARREN, TRACY A | 1 | 81.7% | +5.7% |
| KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN | 1 | 88.6% | +16.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19264115 | RECONFIGURABLE CACHE ARCHITECTURE AND METHODS FOR CACHE COHERENCY | WARREN, TRACY A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751415 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT | KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751415 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT | KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264115 | RECONFIGURABLE CACHE ARCHITECTURE AND METHODS FOR CACHE COHERENCY | WARREN, TRACY A | 2137 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 18751415 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT | KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN | 2196 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNext Silicon Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tracy A Warren has the most, with 1 of Next Silicon Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
