Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Qorvo US Inc.

27 pending office actions • 20 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 127 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
2
Due this week
5
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (4)

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%)
24
Medium (89%)
3
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only18 (67%)
§102 only6 (22%)
§112 only3 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
4% of docket
1
Information Tech
4% of docket
6
Communications
22% of docket
17
Semiconductors
63% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MATA, SARA M 3 66.7% +21.3%
GLENN, KIMBERLY E 1 89.8% +6.5%
WELLS, KENNETH B 1 86.3% +2.4%
LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 1 72.6% +23.6%
PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 1 91.6% +13.3%
HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 1 81.3% +6.0%
HSIEH, PING Y 1 78.9% +15.6%
COLE, VICTOR 1 92.1% +10.7%
LE, SANG PHUOC 1
VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 1 90.0% -0.5%

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
18775509 TUNABLE SINGLE-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT ACOUSTIC FILTER CIRCUIT PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 89d overdue
18393975 WINDOW-BASED ENVELOPE TRACKING IN A MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 9d overdue
18928926 ACOUSTIC FILTER WITH LAMINATE BASED AND BOND-WIRE BASED INDUCTANCE GLENN, KIMBERLY E 15d
18627676 SWITCHING CIRCUIT FOR POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS AND FRONT-END MODULES (FEMS) HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 27d
18888375 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) STRUCTURES WITH TRANSVERSE MODE SUPPRESSION WELLS, KENNETH B 54d
18611837 COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT COLE, VICTOR 55d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18775509 TUNABLE SINGLE-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT ACOUSTIC FILTER CIRCUIT PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 89d overdue
18150614 BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS WITH TUNABLE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING MATA, SARA M 6d
18150627 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR USING MULTILAYER TRANSDUCTION MATERIALS WITH LOW/ZERO COUPLING BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 6d
18150621 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH LOW/ZERO-ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AT BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 8d
18882475 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR UNLOCKING ULTRA-WIDEBAND DEVICES LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 28d
18616807 ACOUSTICALLY SWITCHED RADIO FREQUENCY FRONTEND CIRCUIT HSIEH, PING Y 29d
18611837 COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT COLE, VICTOR 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2843 5
2837 3
3648 2
2842 1
2685 1
2849 1
2664 1
2641 1
2645 1
2844 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18928926 ACOUSTIC FILTER WITH LAMINATE BASED AND BOND-WIRE BASED INDUCTANCE GLENN, KIMBERLY E 2843 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 28, 2024
18888375 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) STRUCTURES WITH TRANSVERSE MODE SUPPRESSION WELLS, KENNETH B 2842 §112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18882475 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR UNLOCKING ULTRA-WIDEBAND DEVICES LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 11, 2024
18775509 TUNABLE SINGLE-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT ACOUSTIC FILTER CIRCUIT PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 2843 §102 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18627676 SWITCHING CIRCUIT FOR POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS AND FRONT-END MODULES (FEMS) HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 2849 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18616807 ACOUSTICALLY SWITCHED RADIO FREQUENCY FRONTEND CIRCUIT HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18611837 COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT COLE, VICTOR 2843 §102 Final Rejection 55d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18584406 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PAIRING AND CONFIGURING NETWORK DEVICES LE, SANG PHUOC 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18393975 WINDOW-BASED ENVELOPE TRACKING IN A MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18509733 RECONFIGURABLE RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) FILTERING CIRCUITS LUONG, HENRY T 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18383118 VARACTOR THOMAS, ERIC W 2847 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18383286 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE HAVING AN INTERFACE LAYER BETWEEN AN IDT AND A PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER POOS, JOHN W 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18380977 POWER AMPLIFIER WITH IMPROVED HARMONIC TERMINATION CHOE, HENRY 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18201269 ANTENNA STRUCTURE DOZE, PETER DAVON 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 24, 2023
18254159 MICROELECTRONICS PACKAGE WITH VERTICALLY STACKED WAFER SLICES AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE SAME GREEN, TELLY D 2898 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending May 23, 2023
18197994 SYSTEM IN A PACKAGE (SIP) WITH AIR CAVITY AND EPOXY SEAL CHANG, JAY C 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending May 16, 2023
18126526 EMBEDDED HEAT SLUG IN A SUBSTRATE ARORA, AJAY 2892 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18245099 METHODS FOR DEPOSITING PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS, AND MATERIALS DEPOSITED THEREWITH KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 85d Pending Mar 13, 2023
18110541 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION ODOM, CURTIS B 2631 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18165359 POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM WITH PROTECTION CIRCUITRY BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 07, 2023
18150614 BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS WITH TUNABLE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150627 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR USING MULTILAYER TRANSDUCTION MATERIALS WITH LOW/ZERO COUPLING BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150621 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH LOW/ZERO-ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AT BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 05, 2023
17987090 MODULE PACKAGE WITH COAXIAL LEAD ASSEMBLY YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY 2899 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 15, 2022
17981041 MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY (MBE) REACTORS WITH MODIFIED CRYOSHROUDS FOR n+GaN REGROWTH, AND METHODS FOR n+GaN REGROWTH BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1714 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17883048 RECEIVER CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING AND WAKING UP TO A WAKEUP IMPULSE SEQUENCE NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 2414 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Aug 08, 2022
17182517 ULTRA-WIDEBAND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (UWB IC) AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING A UWB PRODUCT THAT EMPLOYS THE UWB IC CROSS, JULIANA MARIA 3648 §112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2021

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