Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
SiFive Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, with separate recorded prosecution paths.
METZGER, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should emphasize application-specific responses while maintaining consistent positions across the shared computing and software technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| METZGER, MICHAEL J | 1 | 90.7% | +7.5% |
| VICARY, KEITH E | 1 | 57.9% | +40.1% |
| CHAN, DANNY | 1 | 80.1% | +25.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044204 | USING RENAMED REGISTERS TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE VSET{I}VL{I} INSTRUCTIONS | METZGER, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18191074 | CONFIGURING A COMPONENT OF A PROCESSOR CORE EXECUTING AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROCESS BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM PROCESS | CHAN, DANNY | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18141466 | Vector Gather with a Narrow Datapath | VICARY, KEITH E | 26d overdue |
| 18191074 | CONFIGURING A COMPONENT OF A PROCESSOR CORE EXECUTING AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROCESS BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM PROCESS | CHAN, DANNY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2183 | 2 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044204 | USING RENAMED REGISTERS TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE VSET{I}VL{I} INSTRUCTIONS | METZGER, MICHAEL J | 2183 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18141466 | Vector Gather with a Narrow Datapath | VICARY, KEITH E | 2183 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2023 |
| 18191074 | CONFIGURING A COMPONENT OF A PROCESSOR CORE EXECUTING AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROCESS BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM PROCESS | CHAN, DANNY | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSiFive Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Michael J Metzger has the most, with 1 of SiFive Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
