Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
74 pending office actions • 52 art units • 69 examiners • 0 of 74 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 276 patents granted in the last 365 days
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation has 74 pending office actions in Communications. These 74 actions are reviewed by 71 distinct examiners across 40 distinct art units. This shows a very broad and decentralized prosecution effort, with 74 pending office actions spread across many different individuals and technical groups. The 40 distinct art units reflect a wide-ranging technological footprint within the communications sector.
BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN is the busiest examiner, managing 2 of the 74 pending office actions. With 71 distinct examiners involved, the company is not reliant on any single individual for its patent outcomes. The 40 distinct art units suggest that Realtek's innovations touch on many different specialized areas of communications technology. For practitioners, this decentralized structure means that each of the 74 pending office actions must be handled as a unique case. The involvement of 71 distinct examiners ensures a variety of perspectives, but also requires a highly adaptable prosecution strategy to account for the different standards across 40 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (4%) |
| §103 only | 40 (54%) |
| §102 only | 11 (15%) |
| §112 only | 4 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 14 (19%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POOS, JOHN W | 2 | 93.5% | +4.6% |
| WELLS, KENNETH B | 2 | 86.3% | +2.3% |
| BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 2 | 80.3% | +26.2% |
| NGUYEN, LINH V | 2 | 89.2% | +2.3% |
| NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2 | 85.8% | +12.4% |
| OSORIO, RICARDO | 1 | 89.1% | +7.7% |
| FLORES, ROBERTO W | 1 | 49.8% | +14.1% |
| HONG, MICHAEL HYUN | 1 | 74.4% | +23.7% |
| PEARSON, DAVID J | 1 | 78.1% | +11.7% |
| KIM, WILLIAM JW | 1 | 78.7% | +15.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17965732 | AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT WITH PARASITIC CAPACITANCE COMPENSATION | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 12d |
| 18637417 | SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION REGISTER ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE SAME | NGUYEN, LINH V | 20d |
| 19302103 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL METHOD | OSORIO, RICARDO | — |
| 18918738 | SELF-PROTECTION CIRCUITRY, CASCADE CIRCUIT, AND OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT | POOS, JOHN W | — |
| 18812065 | CONFIGURABLE RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER | WELLS, KENNETH B | — |
| 19240884 | Oscillating circuit having temperature compensation mechanism | WELLS, KENNETH B | — |
| 18629516 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18629498 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17190458 | Wafer testing machine and method for training artificial intelligence model to test wafer | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 169d overdue |
| 18743071 | SIGNAL TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD | MYERS, PAUL R | 15d |
| 18372717 | Electronic system and firmware update method having firmware update troubleshooting mechanism | PAULINO, LENIN | 26d |
| 19046528 | MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE AND MEDIA PLAYBACK METHOD | KIM, WILLIAM JW | 30d |
| 19017754 | IMAGE DATA TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM AND IMAGE DATA TRANSCEIVING METHOD | CZEKAJ, DAVID J | — |
| 18963244 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRAINING SYSTEM | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | — |
| 18958661 | ONLOOKER DETECTION SYSTEM AND ONLOOKER DETECTION METHOD | OAKES, JUSTIN MONTGOMERY | — |
| 18945795 | COLLABORATIVE OPERATING SYSTEM OF AUDIOVISUAL PERIPHERAL DEVICES AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | JONES, CARISSA ANNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19240001 | Fingerprint data processing method, host device and wireless device with encrypted communications | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 3d overdue |
| 17965732 | AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT WITH PARASITIC CAPACITANCE COMPENSATION | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 12d |
| 19046528 | MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE AND MEDIA PLAYBACK METHOD | KIM, WILLIAM JW | 30d |
| 19186815 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD SUPPORTING FREE PAIRING OF PICTURE-IN-PICTURE MODE AND PICTURE-BY-PICTURE MODE | HONG, MICHAEL HYUN | — |
| 19083953 | INTELLIGENT METHOD FOR LOGGING IN OPERATING SYSTEM AND SYSTEM | PEARSON, DAVID J | — |
| 18633629 | HIGH-LINEARITY TWO-STAGE COMPLEMENTARY AMPLIFIER | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | — |
| 18629516 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18629498 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2843 | 6 |
| 2836 | 5 |
| 2649 | 3 |
| 2845 | 3 |
| 2621 | 2 |
| 2617 | 2 |
| 2858 | 2 |
| 2414 | 2 |
| 2175 | 2 |
| 2648 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19302103 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL METHOD | OSORIO, RICARDO | 2625 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19240001 | Fingerprint data processing method, host device and wireless device with encrypted communications | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19186815 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD SUPPORTING FREE PAIRING OF PICTURE-IN-PICTURE MODE AND PICTURE-BY-PICTURE MODE | HONG, MICHAEL HYUN | 2426 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19083953 | INTELLIGENT METHOD FOR LOGGING IN OPERATING SYSTEM AND SYSTEM | PEARSON, DAVID J | 2407 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19046528 | MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE AND MEDIA PLAYBACK METHOD | KIM, WILLIAM JW | 2409 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19035780 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING DISPLAY DEVICE TO PRESET MODE, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES THEREOF | SHAH, SUJIT | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19017754 | IMAGE DATA TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM AND IMAGE DATA TRANSCEIVING METHOD | CZEKAJ, DAVID J | 2488 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2025 |
| 19000725 | REFERENCE CURRENT GENERATING CIRCUIT AND ASSOCIATED CALIBRATION METHOD | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18963244 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRAINING SYSTEM | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 2675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18961413 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2617 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18958661 | ONLOOKER DETECTION SYSTEM AND ONLOOKER DETECTION METHOD | OAKES, JUSTIN MONTGOMERY | 2662 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18953817 | WEBCAM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF | SUN, ANDREW NMN | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18945795 | COLLABORATIVE OPERATING SYSTEM OF AUDIOVISUAL PERIPHERAL DEVICES AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | JONES, CARISSA ANNE | 2691 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18931087 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | FUENTES, RUDY CRISTOFER | 2416 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18926307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LINEARITY OF TESTED CIRCUIT | ISLA, RICHARD | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18918738 | SELF-PROTECTION CIRCUITRY, CASCADE CIRCUIT, AND OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT | POOS, JOHN W | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18909932 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RELATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | ORGAD, EDAN | 2414 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18907920 | CAPACITOR UNIT AND CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 2847 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18902960 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | GEORGE, AYANAH S | 2467 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18900123 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF | DUONG, DUC T | 2415 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18820179 | RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER CIRCUIT AND ASSOCIATED CIRCUIT SET FOR PERFORMING DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION COMPENSATION | NGUYEN, HAI V | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18812065 | CONFIGURABLE RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18793959 | INTEGRATOR OPERATING BASED ON VARIABLE CURRENT | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 2843 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18774881 | IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR NEURAL NETWORK AND IMAGE PREPROCESSING METHOD | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18743071 | SIGNAL TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD | MYERS, PAUL R | 2176 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18671958 | INDICATOR CIRCUIT AND CALIBRATION METHOD FOR CALIBRATING NON-LINEAR DEVIATION OF POWER DETECTION CIRCUIT | CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO | 2649 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18669941 | JUDGMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC SYSTEM, JUDGMENT METHOD AND DISPLAY METHOD | FATIMA, UROOJ | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18668227 | THERMOELECTRIC COOLING CHIP AND PACKAGE STRUCTURE THEREOF | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1728 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2024 |
| 18633629 | HIGH-LINEARITY TWO-STAGE COMPLEMENTARY AMPLIFIER | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 2843 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18621026 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING METHOD | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18415595 | METHOD FOR CLOCK COMPENSATION IN COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE | YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18527383 | INSPECTION METHOD AND RELATED INSPECTION DEVICE FOR OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT CIRCUIT | KIK, PHALLAKA | 2851 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18527385 | Transmission Parameter Decision Method and Related System | VO, ERIC MINHSANG | 2644 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18228985 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE | WANG, YI | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18226236 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD ARRANGED TO PERFORM PARTIAL HIGHLIGHTING WITH AID OF HAND GESTURE DETECTION AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM ON CHIP | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 2671 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18225163 | AUDIO-VISUAL DATA MANAGING SYSTEM, AUDIO-VISUAL DATA MANAGING METHOD | MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 126d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18095506 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AGGREGATE PACKET | HARLEY, JASON A | 2468 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 17965732 | AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT WITH PARASITIC CAPACITANCE COMPENSATION | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 2843 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 19240884 | Oscillating circuit having temperature compensation mechanism | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19206084 | MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ADDRESS TABLE UPDATING DEVICE | BENGZON, GREG C | 2444 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19182572 | AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT AND VOLTAGE GENERATING CIRCUIT | LAM, TUAN THIEU | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19078333 | Analog-to-digital conversion circuit and time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion circuit | JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19064777 | DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD AND DATA TRANSMITTING DEVICE | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | 2181 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19063397 | Clock frequency regulating circuit | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2175 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19055862 | Signal output apparatus having programmable slew rate | NGUYEN, HAI L | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19044057 | DATA RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING METHOD AND DATA RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DEVICE | BELKHAYAT, ZAKARIA MOHAMMED | 2139 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19036274 | FAKE FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION DEVICE AND FAKE FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION METHOD | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19003277 | Harmonic compensation apparatus and method | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18953101 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 2667 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18900626 | WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER DEVICE, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION HANDLING METHOD THEREOF, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 2475 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRealtek Semiconductor Corporation has 74 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 52 art units and 69 examiners.
John W Poos has the most, with 2 of Realtek Semiconductor Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.