Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
SEMTECH Corporation currently has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 4 pending office actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning each application is under the review of a different individual. The work is also distributed across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that each of the 4 pending office actions involves a different technical specialty within the Communications field.
YANG, NAN-YING is the busiest examiner, though he handles 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units for the current workload, there is no concentration of influence in the portfolio. Each of the 4 pending office actions must be managed as a standalone case with its own examiner and art unit guidelines. This structure requires the company to address four different sets of expectations in the Communications sector, as no two applications share the same examining personnel. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner reflects the decentralized nature of the company's current prosecution efforts across the 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, NAN-YING | 1 | 77.9% | +8.2% |
| VO, TUYEN KIM | 1 | 78.5% | +17.7% |
| MYERS, PAUL R | 1 | 79.4% | +13.5% |
| FARAMARZI, GITA | 1 | 51.3% | +18.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18090314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE AUTHENTICATION USING CHAINS OF CERTIFICATES | FARAMARZI, GITA | 26d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204050 | AMBIENT INTERNET-OF-THINGS DEVICES AND METHODS OF OPERATION OF SAME | VO, TUYEN KIM | 35d overdue |
| 18090314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE AUTHENTICATION USING CHAINS OF CERTIFICATES | FARAMARZI, GITA | 26d overdue |
| 19180850 | SECURE BOOT KEY ROTATION | MYERS, PAUL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2629 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2176 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19559447 | STRAIN-BASED FORCE SENSOR MODULE IN A TOUCH-BASED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | YANG, NAN-YING | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19204050 | AMBIENT INTERNET-OF-THINGS DEVICES AND METHODS OF OPERATION OF SAME | VO, TUYEN KIM | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19180850 | SECURE BOOT KEY ROTATION | MYERS, PAUL R | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18090314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE AUTHENTICATION USING CHAINS OF CERTIFICATES | FARAMARZI, GITA | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSEMTECH Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Nan-Ying Yang has the most, with 1 of SEMTECH Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
