Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sigmastar Technology Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (67%)
§102 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
56% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
3
Semiconductors
33% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, MATTHEW DAVID 1 72.8% +15.7%
ALMO, KHAREEM E 1 87.3% +5.1%
MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.8% +14.0%
BORROMEO, JUANITO C 1 75.9% +13.1%
AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 1 63.8% +51.3%
WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 1 81.8% +33.3%
YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL 1 48.6% +35.2%
HAGOS, EYOB 1 67.0% +41.6%
SALOMON, PHENUEL S 1 72.3% +17.8%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18523951 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 85d overdue
18926559 SIGNAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS ALMO, KHAREEM E 35d overdue
18621617 POWER DETECTOR DEVICE AND POWER DETECTION METHOD MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 28d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18427853 Intelligence processing unit and its tensor concatenation method BORROMEO, JUANITO C 125d overdue
18395990 DATA PROTECTION DEVICE AND DATA PROTECTION METHOD AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 86d overdue
18523951 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 85d overdue
18087210 INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND 3-DIMENSIONAL POOLING OPERATION SALOMON, PHENUEL S 30d overdue
18505351 IMAGE SYSTEM YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL 15d overdue
18140182 TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD HAGOS, EYOB 7d
18621617 POWER DETECTOR DEVICE AND POWER DETECTION METHOD MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 28d
18934286 VIDEO ENCODER KIM, MATTHEW DAVID 43d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2483 1
2849 1
2858 1
2184 1
2495 1
2175 1
2639 1
2857 1
2146 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18934286 VIDEO ENCODER KIM, MATTHEW DAVID 2483 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Nov 01, 2024
18926559 SIGNAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS ALMO, KHAREEM E 2849 §102 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2024
18621617 POWER DETECTOR DEVICE AND POWER DETECTION METHOD MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 2858 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18427853 Intelligence processing unit and its tensor concatenation method BORROMEO, JUANITO C 2184 §102 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18395990 DATA PROTECTION DEVICE AND DATA PROTECTION METHOD AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 2495 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18523951 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 2175 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18505351 IMAGE SYSTEM YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL 2639 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18140182 TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD HAGOS, EYOB 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18087210 INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND 3-DIMENSIONAL POOLING OPERATION SALOMON, PHENUEL S 2146 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022

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