Technology area: Communications
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 109 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novatek Microelectronics Corp. manages 16 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. Each of these 16 pending office actions is assigned to a different person, as there are 16 distinct examiners involved. These matters are distributed across 12 distinct art units, indicating a technical scope within the communications field. MCLOONE, PETER D is the busiest examiner, though he only has 1 pending office action. This means the workload is perfectly distributed, with no examiner handling more than one case.
The 12 distinct art units suggest that the company's filings touch on many different aspects of communication technology. For the legal team, tracking 16 distinct examiners requires attention to different sets of prosecution histories. The 16 pending office actions represent the current active pipeline for the company's communications-related IP. With 12 distinct art units involved, the company can focus its strategy on the specific practices of those groups. The 16 distinct examiners provide a range of individual perspectives on the company's technology. This distribution indicates that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current progress. The company's activity in Communications is currently defined by these matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 7 (54%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REED, STEPHEN T | 1 | 73.1% | +15.0% |
| FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | 1 | 68.9% | +14.7% |
| BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | 1 | 70.0% | +22.0% |
| SEYE, ABDOU K | 1 | 82.7% | +27.4% |
| JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.2% | +18.8% |
| CHIO, TAT CHI | 1 | 73.0% | +17.5% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 1 | 85.2% | +10.2% |
| BOCAR, DONNA V | 1 | 57.8% | +20.2% |
| RAYAN, MIHIR K | 1 | 84.9% | +10.6% |
| CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 1 | 88.0% | +13.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955816 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTI-PROCESSES AND MULTI-THREADS | SEYE, ABDOU K | — |
| 18830626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCSESING DEVICE WITH OBJECT DETECTION | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — |
| 18792578 | SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | RAYAN, MIHIR K | — |
| 18648623 | OPERATION METHOD OF A VOLTAGE CONVERTER | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19078246 | Data transmission method and related display driver circuit and host device | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | — |
| 18973082 | COMPUTING DEVICE, EDGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFERENCE ON VIDEO STREAM | BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18817111 | PROCESSOR AND PIXEL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | BOCAR, DONNA V | — |
| 18215339 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18889357 | VIDEO DECODERS AND METHODS FOR LOW-LATENCY DECODING | CHIO, TAT CHI | 18d overdue |
| 19286231 | NOISE CANCELING SYSTEM AND TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE | REED, STEPHEN T | — |
| 19078246 | Data transmission method and related display driver circuit and host device | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | — |
| 18973082 | COMPUTING DEVICE, EDGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFERENCE ON VIDEO STREAM | BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18955816 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTI-PROCESSES AND MULTI-THREADS | SEYE, ABDOU K | — |
| 18951713 | CONTROL METHOD FOR REDUCING OPERATING TEMPERATURE AND DRIVING DEVICE | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18830626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCSESING DEVICE WITH OBJECT DETECTION | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — |
| 18817111 | PROCESSOR AND PIXEL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | BOCAR, DONNA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 2 |
| 2622 | 2 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2198 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19286231 | NOISE CANCELING SYSTEM AND TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE | REED, STEPHEN T | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19078246 | Data transmission method and related display driver circuit and host device | FOX, JOSEPH PATRICK | 2622 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18973082 | COMPUTING DEVICE, EDGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFERENCE ON VIDEO STREAM | BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | 2616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2024 |
| 18955816 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTI-PROCESSES AND MULTI-THREADS | SEYE, ABDOU K | 2198 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18951713 | CONTROL METHOD FOR REDUCING OPERATING TEMPERATURE AND DRIVING DEVICE | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 2626 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18889357 | VIDEO DECODERS AND METHODS FOR LOW-LATENCY DECODING | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18830626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCSESING DEVICE WITH OBJECT DETECTION | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18817111 | PROCESSOR AND PIXEL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | BOCAR, DONNA V | 2621 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18792578 | SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | RAYAN, MIHIR K | 2622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18648623 | OPERATION METHOD OF A VOLTAGE CONVERTER | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18646777 | DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (LED) PIXEL CIRCUIT ENHANCING LUMINANCE UNIFORMITY | LAM, NELSON C | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18398063 | SOURCE DRIVER | BONSHOCK, DENNIS G | 3992 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18215339 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | 2800 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNovatek Microelectronics Corp. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.
Stephen T Reed has the most, with 1 of Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
