Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
SigmaStar Technology Ltd. has 11 pending office actions concentrated in the Communications technology area. The prosecution of these matters is spread across 11 distinct examiners, creating a one-to-one ratio between pending actions and examiners. This distribution suggests that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current trajectory at the USPTO. Each of the 11 pending applications is being reviewed by a different official, requiring a tailored approach for every case.
The portfolio spans 7 distinct art units, which is a significant breadth for 11 pending actions. Priyank J. Shah is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape where strategies must be adapted to the specific expectations of 7 different art units and 11 different individuals. The concentration in the Communications area provides some thematic consistency, but the involvement of 7 distinct art units means that multiple technical sub-groups are reviewing the company's work. Practitioners must coordinate their efforts to ensure that advocacy remains consistent across these 11 separate examiner relationships.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 3 (27%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAH, PRIYANK J | 1 | 68.0% | +17.9% |
| KHAN, MASUD K | 1 | 87.5% | +6.8% |
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.7% | +36.2% |
| SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | 1 | 96.6% | +5.3% |
| KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 1 | 74.1% | +14.2% |
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.3% | +5.6% |
| DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 1 | 82.8% | +21.2% |
| NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | 1 | 87.2% | +29.1% |
| HAGOS, EYOB | 1 | 66.3% | +43.1% |
| ONAT, UMUT | 1 | 79.6% | +28.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926559 | SIGNAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 35d overdue |
| 19272000 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE | KHAN, MASUD K | — |
| 18537849 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTATION SCHEDULING METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140182 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAGOS, EYOB | 7d |
| 18971186 | LOW DROPOUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING LOW POWER MODE | SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | — |
| 18650279 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | — |
| 18070888 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION METHOD | LE, PHAT NGOC | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140182 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAGOS, EYOB | 7d |
| 18934286 | VIDEO ENCODER | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 43d |
| 19357409 | PROJECTION IMAGE CORRECTION SYSTEM AND PROJECTION IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD | SHAH, PRIYANK J | — |
| 18980057 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18650279 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | — |
| 18537849 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTATION SCHEDULING METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | — |
| 18121333 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | ONAT, UMUT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2194 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19357409 | PROJECTION IMAGE CORRECTION SYSTEM AND PROJECTION IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19272000 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE | KHAN, MASUD K | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 18980057 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18971186 | LOW DROPOUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING LOW POWER MODE | SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18934286 | VIDEO ENCODER | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18926559 | SIGNAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §102 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18650279 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 2653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18537849 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTATION SCHEDULING METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18140182 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAGOS, EYOB | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18121333 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | ONAT, UMUT | 2194 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 18070888 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION METHOD | LE, PHAT NGOC | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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