Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Portfolio Summary

69

Total Pending OAs

46

Non-Final OAs

22

Final Rejections

1

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 69 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

28

Overdue

2

Due this week

22

Due this month

15

Due in next 60 days

2

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. 69 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

Overdue (28)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (22)Due ≤ 60 days (15)Due later (2)

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%)

62

Medium (90%)

6

Easy (9%)

1

Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§103 only	53 (77%)
§102 only	9 (13%)
§112 only	6 (9%)
No statute on record	1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

2

Life Sciences

3% of docket

15

Information Tech

22% of docket

0

Communications

0% of docket

51

Semiconductors

74% of docket

1

Mechanical / Eng

1% 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.

690 h

Manual time on pending OAs

138 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

241 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

6.0 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO	3	89.1%	+1.9%
KING, DANIEL JOHN	3	96.6%	+4.9%
BRASWELL, DONALD H.B.	2	81.8%	+11.9%
CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR	2	80.0%	+16.1%
LUONG, DUY HAN	2	93.1%	+11.8%
COON, BRADLEY SCOTT	2	92.9%	+19.2%
REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE	2	85.2%	+24.1%
SMET, UYEN TRAN	2	93.0%	+3.8%
AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE	2	94.3%	-2.4%
KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES	2	79.0%	+22.9%

Quick Wins (20)

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
18756731	APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS FOR READING MRAM MEMORY CELLS	BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO	45d overdue
18748836	PROGRAMMING WITHOUT PRE-CHARGE IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	BRASWELL, DONALD H.B.	19d overdue
18231629	ERASE TECHNIQUES USING ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE	REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE	17d overdue
18234094	PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES THAT UTILIZE ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE	KING, DANIEL JOHN	16d overdue
18584636	SUB-BLOCK MODE BACK PATTERN EFFECT COMPENSATION	COON, BRADLEY SCOTT	10d overdue
18743421	PROACTIVE ERROR DETECTION IN A MEMORY DEVICE	LUONG, DUY HAN	1d overdue
18541811	FLEXIBLE SIZED SUPER BLOCK FOR OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE AND ENDURANCE	CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR	1d overdue
18647612	PERFORMANCE SAVING DURING BLOCK JUMPING	SMET, UYEN TRAN	9d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18748836	PROGRAMMING WITHOUT PRE-CHARGE IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	BRASWELL, DONALD H.B.	19d overdue
18231629	ERASE TECHNIQUES USING ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE	REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE	17d overdue
18612349	OPTIMIZED SELECTIVE SCANNING OF OVERLAP-TABLE IN STORAGE MEMORIES FOR SEQUENTIAL DATA	KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES	15d overdue
18584636	SUB-BLOCK MODE BACK PATTERN EFFECT COMPENSATION	COON, BRADLEY SCOTT	10d overdue
18743421	PROACTIVE ERROR DETECTION IN A MEMORY DEVICE	LUONG, DUY HAN	1d overdue
18541811	FLEXIBLE SIZED SUPER BLOCK FOR OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE AND ENDURANCE	CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR	1d overdue
18734019	SLC SUB-BLOCK MODE FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	COON, BRADLEY SCOTT	22d
18639632	THREE DIMENSION NAND DUAL-STRING PROGRAM	LUONG, DUY HAN	30d

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
2825	11
2827	8
2824	7
2898	5
2817	4
2132	2
2135	2
2835	2
2139	2
2818	2

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
18823112	Data Storage With Real Time Dynamic Clock Frequency Control	BAE, JI H	2176	§112	Non-Final OA	40d	Pending	Sep 03, 2024
18787792	PROGRAMMING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH NARROW THRESHOLD VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTIONS	BRASWELL, DONALD H.B.	2825	§103	Non-Final OA	40d	Pending	Jul 29, 2024
18776354	HIGHEST DATA STATE PROGRAM-VERIFY SKIP FOR PROGRAM PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT	TRAN, ANTHAN	2825	§102	Non-Final OA	5d	Pending	Jul 18, 2024
18776359	HOLE PRE-CHARGE FROM BITLINE SIDE TO ENABLE FULL REVERSE ORDER PROGRAM SUB-BLOCK MODE	BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO	2825	§103	Non-Final OA	40d	Pending	Jul 18, 2024
18774511	AUTHENTICATABLE ENCLOSURE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE	POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M	1785	Other	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Jul 16, 2024
18770407	Dynamic Integrity and Datat Encryption (IDE) Aggregation Size	MUNGUIA, DUILIO	2497	§103	Non-Final OA	43d overdue	Pending	Jul 11, 2024
18770399	Controller Memory Buffer (CMB) Doorbell Synchronization	CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR	2132	§103	Non-Final OA	78d	Pending	Jul 11, 2024
18756731	APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS FOR READING MRAM MEMORY CELLS	BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO	2825	§102	Non-Final OA	45d overdue	Pending	Jun 27, 2024
18748836	PROGRAMMING WITHOUT PRE-CHARGE IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	BRASWELL, DONALD H.B.	2825	§103	Non-Final OA	19d overdue	Pending	Jun 20, 2024
18747805	PROGRAM TIME IMPROVEMENT FOR NAND DIE WITH COARSE BITSCAN DURING PROGRAM-VERIFY	HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE	2827	§112	Non-Final OA	35d overdue	Pending	Jun 19, 2024
18743421	PROACTIVE ERROR DETECTION IN A MEMORY DEVICE	LUONG, DUY HAN	2825	§103	Non-Final OA	1d overdue	Pending	Jun 14, 2024
18739566	ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A DOUBLE-WALLED HOUSING THAT ACTS AS A THERMAL BARRIER	KRIM, PETER	2841	§103	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Jun 11, 2024
18737678	PARTIAL PAGE IN-PLACE REFRESH	KIM, ELIAS YOUNG	2135	§103	Final Rejection	35d overdue	Pending	Jun 07, 2024
18734019	SLC SUB-BLOCK MODE FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	COON, BRADLEY SCOTT	2827	§103	Final Rejection	22d	Pending	Jun 05, 2024
18678647	DISCHARGE-FREE READ OPERATIONS FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	KING, DANIEL JOHN	2827	§112	Non-Final OA	54d	Pending	May 30, 2024
18663824	DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER SENSE AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR DOUBLE DATA RATE NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES	REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE	2824	§103	Final Rejection	54d	Pending	May 14, 2024
18649558	COOLING APPARATUS FOR DISSIPATING HEAT IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE	MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR	2835	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Apr 29, 2024
18647612	PERFORMANCE SAVING DURING BLOCK JUMPING	SMET, UYEN TRAN	2824	§102	Non-Final OA	9d	Pending	Apr 26, 2024
18639632	THREE DIMENSION NAND DUAL-STRING PROGRAM	LUONG, DUY HAN	2825	§103	Final Rejection	30d	Pending	Apr 18, 2024
18635524	A HIGH BANDWIDTH MEMORY DEVICE WITH ALWAYS ON BIT LINES	AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE	2824	§103	Final Rejection	23d	Pending	Apr 15, 2024
18614774	NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH FAST PROGRAM VOLTAGE RAMP DOWN	RADKE, JAY W	2827	§103	Non-Final OA	30d	Pending	Mar 25, 2024
18612349	OPTIMIZED SELECTIVE SCANNING OF OVERLAP-TABLE IN STORAGE MEMORIES FOR SEQUENTIAL DATA	KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES	2139	§103	Non-Final OA	15d overdue	Pending	Mar 21, 2024
18601389	NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH PROGRAM-VERIFY AT COMMON VOLTAGE	BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO	2825	§103	Final Rejection	27d	Pending	Mar 11, 2024
18584636	SUB-BLOCK MODE BACK PATTERN EFFECT COMPENSATION	COON, BRADLEY SCOTT	2827	§103	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	Feb 22, 2024
18583458	STORAGE DEVICE COOLING AIR VENTILATION FEATURES	PATEL, MUKUNDBHAI G	2835	§102	Final Rejection	53d	Pending	Feb 21, 2024
18419013	Multiple Function Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) Device (MFND) Performance Improvement By Over Reading	PARIKH, KALPIT	2137	§103	Final Rejection	41d	Pending	Jan 22, 2024
18410569	HIGH DENSITY CONNECTOR WITH MOVEABLE CONTACTS	HARCUM, MARCUS E	2831	§103	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Jan 11, 2024
18389980	APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SELECTOR DEVICE THRESHOLD VOLTAGE DRIFT	KING, DOUGLAS	2824	§103	Non-Final OA	141d overdue	Pending	Dec 20, 2023
18545601	HYBRID THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL WITH EMBEDDED METAL LAYER	ENAD, CHRISTINE A	2811	§103	Non-Final OA	18d overdue	Pending	Dec 19, 2023
18541811	FLEXIBLE SIZED SUPER BLOCK FOR OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE AND ENDURANCE	CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR	2132	§103	Final Rejection	1d overdue	Pending	Dec 15, 2023
18511724	METHOD FOR DETECTING AND RECOVERING AN INOPERABLE DRIVE	WILSON, YOLANDA L	2113	§112	Final Rejection	87d overdue	Pending	Nov 16, 2023
18509523	ERASE VERIFY MODE TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION IN ERASE OPERATION OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS	WELLS, JAMES STEVEN	2825	§103	Final Rejection	9d	Pending	Nov 15, 2023
18501490	ACCESSING SHARED PARTITIONS ON A STORAGE DRIVE OF A REMOTE DEVICE	KRIEGER, JONAH C	2133	§103	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	Nov 03, 2023
18493379	MICRO SOLDER JOINT AND STENCIL APERTURE DESIGN	FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA	2853	§103	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Oct 24, 2023
18382860	ADAPTIVE WEAR-LEVELING OF SUB-BLOCKS IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY	NGUYEN, THAN VINH	2138	§102	Final Rejection	34d	Pending	Oct 23, 2023
18488421	IMPROVED HOST DRAM AND PCIE BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION FOR DRAM-LESS DEVICES	KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES	2139	§103	Non-Final OA	56d	Pending	Oct 17, 2023
18478358	CAPILLARY FOR A WIRE BONDING MACHINE HAVING A DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTABLE CHAMFER DIAMETER	GAMINO, CARLOS J	1735	§103	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Sep 29, 2023
18473774	SCHEDULING EXECUTION OF COMMANDS IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE BASED ON COMMAND PARAMETERS	HEADLY, MELISSA A	2197	§103	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Sep 25, 2023
18471455	NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH SEQUENTIAL READ	SMET, UYEN TRAN	2824	§103	Non-Final OA	21d	Pending	Sep 21, 2023
18468904	STAIR-STEP CONFIGURATION FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DIE OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT	MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL	2898	§103	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Sep 18, 2023
18464779	BACK GRINDING TAPE HAVING TABS TO ASSIST IN REMOVING THE BACK GRINDING TAPE FROM A WAFER	TURNER, BRIAN	2818	§103	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	Sep 11, 2023
18463805	MEMORY DIE STACK HAVING A SWITCH FOR SELECTIVELY CONNECTING A MEMORY DIE TO A SUBSTRATE	KARIMY, TIMOR	2818	§102	Non-Final OA	19d	Pending	Sep 08, 2023
18456906	UNSINGULATED SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE	KOLB, THADDEUS J	2817	§103	Non-Final OA	5d overdue	Pending	Aug 28, 2023
18237301	METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL TABLE UPDATES FOR FIXED GRANULARITY LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL TABLES	RUTZ, JARED IAN	2135	§103	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Aug 23, 2023
18452500	APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ERASING FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY	WELLS, JAMES STEVEN	2825	§103	Non-Final OA	1d overdue	Pending	Aug 18, 2023
18234094	PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES THAT UTILIZE ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE	KING, DANIEL JOHN	2827	§102	Final Rejection	16d overdue	Pending	Aug 15, 2023
18449452	SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP WITH VARYING THICKNESS PROFILE	RAHMAN, MOIN M	2898	§103	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Aug 14, 2023
18448406	STREAM TEMPERATURE INTERLEAVE MONITOR	TRUONG, LOAN	2114	§103	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Aug 11, 2023
18448296	PACKAGED MEMORY DEVICE WITH OVERHANG SUPPORT STRUCTURE	ANDERSON, WILLIAM H	2817	§103	Final Rejection	49d	Pending	Aug 11, 2023
18231629	ERASE TECHNIQUES USING ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE	REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE	2824	§103	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Aug 08, 2023
18365394	APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING CROSS BIT LINE PITCH IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUITS	SALERNO, SARAH KATE	2814	§103	Non-Final OA	27d	Pending	Aug 04, 2023
18230270	OPEN BLOCK DETECTION METHOD USING FOR FIRST AND SECOND TIME PERIOD READ TIME VALLEY FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS	AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE	2824	§103	Final Rejection	54d	Pending	Aug 04, 2023
18229257	HYBRID ERASE FOR DATA RETENTION THRESHOLD VOLTAGE MARGIN IMPROVEMENT	HAMPTON, TRACY RENEE	2827	§102	Final Rejection	26d overdue	Pending	Aug 02, 2023
18362140	TESTING PADDLE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION	RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J	2858	§103	Non-Final OA	1d overdue	Pending	Jul 31, 2023
18360555	SEMICONDUCTOR DIE STACKING ARCHITECTURE AND CONNECTION METHOD THEREFORE	NICELY, JOSEPH C	2813	§103	Non-Final OA	15d overdue	Pending	Jul 27, 2023
18360361	BOND WIRE HAVING A RECYCLED THERMOPLASTIC CORE WITH CONDUCTIVE FILLERS	CHAN, CANDICE	2813	§103	Non-Final OA	45d overdue	Pending	Jul 27, 2023
18359645	THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE SPACER	SUN, YU-HSI DAVID	2817	§103	Final Rejection	32d overdue	Pending	Jul 26, 2023
18357379	SOLDER BARRIER CONTACT FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT	SEVEN, EVREN	2812	§103	Final Rejection	29d overdue	Pending	Jul 24, 2023
18356838	MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME	GREEN, TELLY D	2898	§103	Non-Final OA	31d overdue	Pending	Jul 21, 2023
18355339	ADAPTIVE ERASE VOLTAGES FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY	KING, DANIEL JOHN	2827	§112	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Jul 19, 2023
18355359	MULTI-TIME PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS	CHO, SUNG IL	2825	§103	Non-Final OA	16d overdue	Pending	Jul 19, 2023
18355331	WAFER HOTSPOT-FIXING LAYOUT HINTS BY MACHINE LEARNING	PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL	2169	§103	Non-Final OA	5d	Pending	Jul 19, 2023
18222859	RAPID INSTALLATION SCREW WITH RADIALLY EXPANDING THREADS	SAETHER, FLEMMING	3675	§103	Final Rejection	15d	Pending	Jul 17, 2023
18222646	STACKED CHIP SCALE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE	HARRISTON, WILLIAM A	2899	§103	Non-Final OA	15d	Pending	Jul 17, 2023
18222776	SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING PCB EDGE HEAT DISSIPATION	ZARNEKE, DAVID A	2891	§103	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Jul 17, 2023
18221497	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING VERTICALLY INTERCONNECTED SEMICONDUCTOR DIES	WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL	2897	§103	Final Rejection	34d	Pending	Jul 13, 2023
18221803	SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER CONFIGURED FOR SINGLE TOUCH-DOWN TESTING	GOODWIN, DAVID J	2817	§112	Final Rejection	75d	Pending	Jul 13, 2023
17831810	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SELECT DIES OF KNOWN THICKNESSES	MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL	2898	§103	Final Rejection	27d	Pending	Jun 03, 2022
17673150	Semiconductor Device with Protective Layer	ISAAC, STANETTA D	2898	§102	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Feb 16, 2022

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