Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
SEMTECH Corporation currently has 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. This portfolio of 5 pending actions reflects the company's ongoing efforts to protect its networking and security innovations. The focus on Networking & Security is a key component of its intellectual property strategy for these active matters, showing a commitment to securing rights in a critical technological field.
The prosecution is distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. With 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, every active case is being handled by a different individual at the patent office. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners are all different, some are working within the same specialized department, which may lead to some consistency in the application of examination standards across the 5 total pending office actions.
YANG, NAN-YING is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total pending office actions number 5 and the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is perfectly distributed across the 5 distinct examiners. This decentralized approach across 4 distinct art units requires the company to manage five separate examiner relationships to advance its 5 total pending office actions and secure its patent rights.
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 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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% | +8.6% |
| VO, TUYEN KIM | 1 | 78.4% | +17.7% |
| MYERS, PAUL R | 1 | 79.3% | +13.5% |
| DHARIA, RUPAL | 1 | 76.0% | -8.5% |
| 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 2 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 |
| 18117209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE APPROVAL OF OPERATIONS REQUESTED BY A DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | DHARIA, RUPAL | — |
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 |
| 2492 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18117209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE APPROVAL OF OPERATIONS REQUESTED BY A DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | DHARIA, RUPAL | 2492 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 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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