Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications
15 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 76 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silicon Laboratories Inc. is currently managing 14 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 12 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical footprint for the company's networking innovations. The involvement of 12 art units suggests that the company must navigate a wide array of USPTO divisions, each with its own examination standards.
The prosecution workload is decentralized, with 14 distinct examiners handling the 14 pending office actions. This distribution between examiners and pending cases ensures that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's active portfolio. This distribution minimizes the risk that a single examiner's tendencies could significantly impact the overall success of the company's patent efforts.
NGUYEN, ANH is identified as the busiest examiner, yet he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This confirms that the 14 pending office actions are distributed among the 14 distinct examiners. Such a distribution requires the company to manage 14 separate examiner relationships simultaneously, necessitating a versatile prosecution strategy to address the unique perspectives of each USPTO official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (47%) |
| §102 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, ANH | 1 | 79.0% | +25.0% |
| ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A | 1 | 18.2% | +18.5% |
| BILODEAU, DAVID | 1 | 77.0% | +14.5% |
| JAVAID, JAMAL | 1 | 88.5% | +5.8% |
| CHOWDHURY, FAHMIDA S | 1 | 93.0% | +6.2% |
| PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | 1 | 90.9% | +14.3% |
| MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO | 1 | 60.0% | +50.0% |
| TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | 1 | 90.9% | +33.3% |
| CHERY, DADY | 1 | 88.0% | +9.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525266 | ACTIVE SCANNING WITH EXCLUDED SSID LISTS | CHERY, DADY | 30d overdue |
| 18904994 | Selective Listening with Matter over Wi-Fi | JAVAID, JAMAL | — |
| 18732504 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE WAKE-UP ON TRIGGER IN A MESH NETWORK | CHOWDHURY, FAHMIDA S | — |
| 18675227 | Linking RAM Code and Data with Multiple RAM Aliases | PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | — |
| 18421503 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING COMPRESSED ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS | TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206178 | SELF-CONFIGURATION OF MULTI-PROTOCOL NODES IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK | CERLANEK, RACHEL ELIZABETH | 73d overdue |
| 19055050 | UNIFIED RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE FOR A PLURALITY OF WIRELESS PROTOCOLS | ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A | — |
| 18925951 | INTELLIGENT SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSMISSION SCHEDULING FOR CO-EXISTENCE | BILODEAU, DAVID | — |
| 18601408 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR TO ENABLE REDUCED MEMORY EFFECTS IN POWER AMPLIFIER | MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | — |
| 18588482 | Devices and Systems for Learning Wi-Fi Access Point Behavior To Reduce Power Consumption | LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO | — |
| 17986158 | WAKE-UP FOR BATTERY-POWERED DEVICE | WHITE, SADIE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055707 | System and Method for Seamless Integration of Mesh Networking Protocols, Sub-Gigahertz Band Communication, and BLE Location Technologies for Enhanced IoT Connectivity and Localization | NGUYEN, ANH | — |
| 19055050 | UNIFIED RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE FOR A PLURALITY OF WIRELESS PROTOCOLS | ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A | — |
| 18925951 | INTELLIGENT SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSMISSION SCHEDULING FOR CO-EXISTENCE | BILODEAU, DAVID | — |
| 18675227 | Linking RAM Code and Data with Multiple RAM Aliases | PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | — |
| 18588482 | Devices and Systems for Learning Wi-Fi Access Point Behavior To Reduce Power Consumption | LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO | — |
| 18421503 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING COMPRESSED ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS | TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2412 | 2 |
| 2458 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| 2471 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2419 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 2418 | 1 |
| 2641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055707 | System and Method for Seamless Integration of Mesh Networking Protocols, Sub-Gigahertz Band Communication, and BLE Location Technologies for Enhanced IoT Connectivity and Localization | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19055050 | UNIFIED RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE FOR A PLURALITY OF WIRELESS PROTOCOLS | ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 18925951 | INTELLIGENT SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSMISSION SCHEDULING FOR CO-EXISTENCE | BILODEAU, DAVID | 2648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18904994 | Selective Listening with Matter over Wi-Fi | JAVAID, JAMAL | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18732504 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE WAKE-UP ON TRIGGER IN A MESH NETWORK | CHOWDHURY, FAHMIDA S | 2471 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18675227 | Linking RAM Code and Data with Multiple RAM Aliases | PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18601408 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR TO ENABLE REDUCED MEMORY EFFECTS IN POWER AMPLIFIER | MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18588482 | Devices and Systems for Learning Wi-Fi Access Point Behavior To Reduce Power Consumption | LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO | 2419 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18421503 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING COMPRESSED ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS | TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18525266 | ACTIVE SCANNING WITH EXCLUDED SSID LISTS | CHERY, DADY | 2418 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18387978 | RSSI Based Transmit Power for BLE Advertisers | APPIAH, CHARLES NANA | 2641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18206178 | SELF-CONFIGURATION OF MULTI-PROTOCOL NODES IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK | CERLANEK, RACHEL ELIZABETH | 2412 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 17989257 | COOPERATIVE NETWORK DEVICES | WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 2415 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17986158 | WAKE-UP FOR BATTERY-POWERED DEVICE | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17677009 | COMPRESSING INFORMATION IN AN END NODE USING AN AUTOENCODER NEURAL NETWORK | LEY, SALLY THI | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2022 |
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