Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Qorvo US Inc.

45 pending office actions • 23 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 45 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 121 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

45
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

18
Hard (40%)
24
Medium (53%)
3
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (2%)
§103 only17 (38%)
§102 only7 (16%)
§112 only2 (4%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)17 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
11% of docket
8
Communications
18% of docket
12
Semiconductors
27% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
2% of docket
19
Business / Other
42% 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.

450 h
Manual time on pending OAs
90 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
158 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MATA, SARA M 3 66.8% +22.0%
APPIAH, CHARLES NANA 2 43.9% +13.2%
NGUYEN, KHIEM D 2 85.8% +12.5%
BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 1 78.2% +30.0%
WELLS, KENNETH B 1 86.2% +2.2%
YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR 1 93.2% +18.2%
PAIGE, TYLER D 1 91.3% +8.4%
BACK, AUSTIN M 1 77.1% +26.2%
OUTTEN, SAMUEL S 1 79.0% +20.2%
LUGO, DAVID B 1 79.0% +1.9%

Quick Wins (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19215466 SYSTEM APPROACH FOR BAW TEMPCO REDUCTION WELLS, KENNETH B
19202462 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF SAW RESONATOR BY SELECTIVELY CHANGING AMOUNT OF MATERIALS YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR
19196416 RANGING WITH SIMULTANEOUS FRAMES PAIGE, TYLER D
18203831 ANALOG PREDISTORTION (APD) SYSTEM FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS NGUYEN, KHIEM D

Hard Cases (18)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17182517 ULTRA-WIDEBAND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (UWB IC) AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING A UWB PRODUCT THAT EMPLOYS THE UWB IC CROSS, JULIANA MARIA 15d overdue
18245099 METHODS FOR DEPOSITING PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS, AND MATERIALS DEPOSITED THEREWITH KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 85d
19194812 PHASED ARRAY WITH INCREASED ELEMENT OFFSET BACK, AUSTIN M
19184060 IDT-EXCITED ACOUSTIC RESONATOR WITH HIGH COUPLING AND LOW TCF OUTTEN, SAMUEL S
19060557 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CORRECTED CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE ESTIMATE LUGO, DAVID B
19046624 MULTI-PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR OPERABLE WITH FEWER FEEDBACK LOOPS FINCH III, FRED E
19032774 HYBRID LATTICE FILTER SALAZAR JR, JORGE L
18855225 TRANSCEIVER CIRCUIT OPERABLE IN A DYNAMIC POWER RANGE LU, WILLIAM

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18584406 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PAIRING AND CONFIGURING NETWORK DEVICES APPIAH, CHARLES NANA 22d overdue
18150627 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR USING MULTILAYER TRANSDUCTION MATERIALS WITH LOW/ZERO COUPLING BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 6d
18150614 BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS WITH TUNABLE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING MATA, SARA M 6d
18150621 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH LOW/ZERO-ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AT BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 8d
19279204 POWER AMPLIFIER WITH CLAMP AND FEEDBACK PROTECTION CIRCUITRY BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN
19202462 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF SAW RESONATOR BY SELECTIVELY CHANGING AMOUNT OF MATERIALS YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR
19194812 PHASED ARRAY WITH INCREASED ELEMENT OFFSET BACK, AUSTIN M
19184060 IDT-EXCITED ACOUSTIC RESONATOR WITH HIGH COUPLING AND LOW TCF OUTTEN, SAMUEL S

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2837 3
2843 2
2411 2
2836 1
4100 1
2625 1
2171 1
2849 1
2664 1
2645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19279204 POWER AMPLIFIER WITH CLAMP AND FEEDBACK PROTECTION CIRCUITRY BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2025
19215466 SYSTEM APPROACH FOR BAW TEMPCO REDUCTION WELLS, KENNETH B 2836 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2025
19202462 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF SAW RESONATOR BY SELECTIVELY CHANGING AMOUNT OF MATERIALS YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2025
19196416 RANGING WITH SIMULTANEOUS FRAMES PAIGE, TYLER D §102Other Non-Final OA Pending May 01, 2025
19194812 PHASED ARRAY WITH INCREASED ELEMENT OFFSET BACK, AUSTIN M §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2025
19184060 IDT-EXCITED ACOUSTIC RESONATOR WITH HIGH COUPLING AND LOW TCF OUTTEN, SAMUEL S §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 21, 2025
19060557 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CORRECTED CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE ESTIMATE LUGO, DAVID B 4100 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2025
19049094 TWO-FUNCTION PUSH TRIGGER TZENG, FRED 2625 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 10, 2025
19046624 MULTI-PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR OPERABLE WITH FEWER FEEDBACK LOOPS FINCH III, FRED E §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2025
19032774 HYBRID LATTICE FILTER SALAZAR JR, JORGE L §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 21, 2025
18858063 SUPPLY VOLTAGE BASED ANALOG PREDISTORTION (APD) CIRCUIT FOR POWER AMPLIFIER HUANG, WEN WU §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2024
18855225 TRANSCEIVER CIRCUIT OPERABLE IN A DYNAMIC POWER RANGE LU, WILLIAM §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2024
18855023 BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION FOR FRONT END MODULE (FEM) DEAN, RAYMOND S §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2024
18904321 PHASE AMPLITUDE CONTROLLER APPIAH, CHARLES NANA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2024
18891610 MULTIGENERATIONAL FRONT-END MODULE (FEM) GUPTA, PARUL H §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18811963 MULTI-LAYER ELECTRICAL STRUCTURES SAWYER, STEVEN T §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18832058 BIAS CIRCUIT FOR POWER AMPLIFIER LAM, TUAN THIEU §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18766784 EQUALIZER CIRCUIT AND RELATED POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT CHOE, HENRY DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18763182 EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT IN A WIRELESS TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18754417 SEMICONDUCTOR DIE LEVEL STRESS DETECTION IN PACKAGE UTILIZING STRAIN GAUGE STRUCTURES DUNLAP, JONATHAN M §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18738803 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW-POWER FULLY DIGITAL RATE CONVERSION USING PRE- OR POST- JITTER NOISE REDUCTION SHIBEROU, MAHELET 2171 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 10, 2024
18646524 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC COORDINATION OF PHASES IN ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION HENSON, JAMAAL R 2411 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2024
18627676 SWITCHING CIRCUIT FOR POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS AND FRONT-END MODULES (FEMS) HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 2849 §112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18620211 LAMINATE CAVITY PACKAGE KOLAHDOUZAN, HAJAR §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18616807 ACOUSTICALLY SWITCHED RADIO FREQUENCY FRONTEND CIRCUIT HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18583966 METHOD OF TIME-OF-FLIGHT RANGING BETWEEN WIRELESS DEVICES HUA, QUAN M 2645 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2024
18584406 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PAIRING AND CONFIGURING NETWORK DEVICES APPIAH, CHARLES NANA 2641 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18434269 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ISOLATION OF TX-RX DUPLEXERS BY DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE KIM, SUN JONG 2469 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2024
18414876 SWITCH CONVERTER AND METHOD OF CONVERTING A DC INPUT VOLTAGE INTO A DC OUTPUT VOLTAGE ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A 2838 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 17, 2024
18400433 METHODS AND TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE STABILITY OF CASCODE AMPLIFIERS AND ENHANCE LINEUP EFFICIENCY IN MULTI-STAGE POWER AMPLIFIERS NGUYEN, KHIEM D §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2023
18394038 DISTRIBUTED POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 2633 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 22, 2023
18539749 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ADAPTION IN DATA TRANSFER IN ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 2411 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18288063 VERTICALLY STACKED MEMS DEVICES AND CONTROLLER DEVICE ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K 2891 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2023
18203831 ANALOG PREDISTORTION (APD) SYSTEM FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS NGUYEN, KHIEM D 2843 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2023
18245099 METHODS FOR DEPOSITING PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS, AND MATERIALS DEPOSITED THEREWITH KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2688 §103§112 Final Rejection 85d Pending Mar 13, 2023
18110541 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION ODOM, CURTIS B 2631 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18166704 HIGH POWER BACK-OFF EFFICIENCY ASYMMETRIC-STACKED DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE LOAD MODULATION PA TALUKDER, MD K 2648 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2023
18107642 INTEGRATED PIEZORESITIVE (PZR) AND PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER (PMUT) DEVICE AND RELATED HIGH-VOLTAGE (HV) / BIPOLAR-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) PROCESSING METHODS FITZGERALD, JOHN P 2855 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 09, 2023
18161235 METHODS AND ASSEMBLIES FOR COOLING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES USING CARBON ALLOTROPES TRAN, TONY 2893 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2023
18150621 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH LOW/ZERO-ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AT BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150627 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR USING MULTILAYER TRANSDUCTION MATERIALS WITH LOW/ZERO COUPLING BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150614 BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS WITH TUNABLE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 05, 2023
17987090 MODULE PACKAGE WITH COAXIAL LEAD ASSEMBLY YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY 2899 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2022
17883048 RECEIVER CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING AND WAKING UP TO A WAKEUP IMPULSE SEQUENCE NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 2414 §103 Final Rejection 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 §103§112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2021

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