Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Seagate Technology LLC

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

1
Hard (8%)
11
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only11 (92%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
25% of docket
4
Information Tech
33% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
3
Semiconductors
25% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FEREJA, SAMUEL D 1 74.9% +11.6%
ULLAH, SHARIF E 1 84.4% +22.2%
LOONAN, ERIC T 1 64.3% +26.6%
KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 1 100.0% +0.0%
DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER 1 39.2% +40.6%
FENG, ZHENGFU J 1 75.5% +38.7%
WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S 1 54.1% +18.9%
REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER 1 57.5% +26.6%
GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 1 72.7% +50.0%
ANDERSON, JOSHUA D 1 82.6% +30.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18747717 DATA STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ADSORBENT COMPOSITION, AND RELATED ARTICLES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 4d overdue
17657404 METHOD FOR MAKING A THERMALLY-STABILIZED PLASMONIC ALLOY FEATURE OF A HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER ANDERSON, JOSHUA D 4d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18759321 DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES ULLAH, SHARIF E 8d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
17929779 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING BIOMATERIAL ON A SUBSTRATE REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER 182d overdue
18929292 VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION FEREJA, SAMUEL D 140d overdue
17855350 DETECTION OF RANSOMWARE ATTACK AT OBJECT STORE GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 78d overdue
18759635 PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT LOONAN, ERIC T 25d overdue
18625569 MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACES FOR INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF IMMERSION COOLING DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER 23d overdue
18305973 ELECTROLYTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S 11d overdue
18759321 DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES ULLAH, SHARIF E 8d overdue
17657404 METHOD FOR MAKING A THERMALLY-STABILIZED PLASMONIC ALLOY FEATURE OF A HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER ANDERSON, JOSHUA D 4d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2835 2
2487 1
2495 1
2137 1
2688 1
1795 1
1713 1
2408 1
3729 1
1681 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18929292 VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION FEREJA, SAMUEL D 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 140d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2024
18759321 DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES ULLAH, SHARIF E 2495 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18759635 PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18747717 DATA STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ADSORBENT COMPOSITION, AND RELATED ARTICLES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2024
18625569 MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACES FOR INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF IMMERSION COOLING DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER 2835 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18601622 FOAM HEAT SINKS USED IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS FENG, ZHENGFU J 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18305973 ELECTROLYTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
17929779 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING BIOMATERIAL ON A SUBSTRATE REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 182d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2022
17855350 DETECTION OF RANSOMWARE ATTACK AT OBJECT STORE GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 2408 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2022
17657404 METHOD FOR MAKING A THERMALLY-STABILIZED PLASMONIC ALLOY FEATURE OF A HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER ANDERSON, JOSHUA D 3729 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17677713 ON-CHIP OPTICAL REAL-TIME DNA SEQUENCING KIM, YOUNG J 1681 §103 Final Rejection 110d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2022
17084940 THREE-DIMENSIONAL FERROELECTRIC MEMORY FOX, BRANDON C 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2020

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