Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nordic Semiconductor ASA

18 pending office actions • 18 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
17
Medium (94%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only17 (94%)
§112 only1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
50% of docket
2
Communications
11% of docket
5
Semiconductors
28% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TAN, RICHARD 1 79.3% +23.2%
PRIFTI, AUREL 1 83.0% +22.3%
MOORE, WHITNEY 1 88.3% +9.7%
SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 1 76.1% +19.6%
LAM, TUAN THIEU 1 77.6% +13.0%
TRAN, NGUYEN 1 83.5% +7.6%
LOONAN, ERIC T 1 64.3% +26.6%
MILLER, BRANDON J 1 87.6% +8.5%
SUNDARA, NICK ANON 1 100.0% +0.0%
O CONNOR, BRIAN T 1 85.1% +8.4%

Quick Wins (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18294394 PAGING O CONNOR, BRIAN T 37d overdue
18591474 COMMUNICATING WITH A CELLULAR NETWORK MILLER, BRANDON J 15d overdue
18443009 RADIO COMMUNICATION SUNDARA, NICK ANON 4d overdue
18719018 PHASE-BASED RANGING USING DISPERSED CHANNELS MOORE, WHITNEY 28d
18704355 BOOST CONVERTER CIRCUITS TRAN, NGUYEN 70d
18843573 INTERFACE CIRCUIT PORTIONS PRIFTI, AUREL 72d

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
18648172 GLITCH FILTER LAM, TUAN THIEU 17d overdue
19110734 TRIMMING TECHNIQUE FOR OSCILLATORS TAN, RICHARD 3d overdue
18719221 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING RANGING BETWEEN RADIO SIGNAL DEVICES SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3d overdue
18612716 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH HARDWARE SEMAPHORE LOONAN, ERIC T 28d
18843573 INTERFACE CIRCUIT PORTIONS PRIFTI, AUREL 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2849 1
2175 1
3646 1
3648 1
2843 1
2838 1
2137 1
2647 1
2479 1
2465 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19110734 TRIMMING TECHNIQUE FOR OSCILLATORS TAN, RICHARD 2849 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2025
18843573 INTERFACE CIRCUIT PORTIONS PRIFTI, AUREL 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Sep 03, 2024
18719018 PHASE-BASED RANGING USING DISPERSED CHANNELS MOORE, WHITNEY 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18719221 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING RANGING BETWEEN RADIO SIGNAL DEVICES SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2024
18648172 GLITCH FILTER LAM, TUAN THIEU 2843 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18704355 BOOST CONVERTER CIRCUITS TRAN, NGUYEN 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18612716 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH HARDWARE SEMAPHORE LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18591474 COMMUNICATING WITH A CELLULAR NETWORK MILLER, BRANDON J 2647 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18443009 RADIO COMMUNICATION SUNDARA, NICK ANON 2479 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18294394 PAGING O CONNOR, BRIAN T 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18428503 Radio Device Synchronisation HUANG, WEIBIN 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18428465 RADIO DEVICES WILCOX, JAMES J 2439 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18574481 ESTIMATION OF THE CUT-OFF FREQUENCY OF AN ELECTRONIC FILTER YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 2858 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18283419 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR RACH PROCEDURE NGUYEN, CHUONG M 2411 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18367965 RADIO COMMUNICATIONS MILLS, DONALD L 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18236866 TRANSMITTER DEVICES BILODEAU, DAVID 2648 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Aug 22, 2023
18267080 DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ALI, SYED 2463 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18029433 ENERGY SUPPLY CIRCUITS MURALIDAR, RICHARD V 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023

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