Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Silicon Laboratories Inc.

15 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 80 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

1
Hard (7%)
12
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (13%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only9 (60%)
§102 only3 (20%)
No statute on record2 (13%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
60% of docket
2
Communications
13% of docket
4
Semiconductors
27% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MEJIA, ANTHONY 2 83.4% +19.0%
CHEN, SIBIN 1 86.6% +5.1%
YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 1 76.6% +22.1%
YOUSSEF, MENATOALLAH M 1 76.5% +19.2%
POOS, JOHN W 1 93.5% +4.6%
NGUYEN, LONG T 1 89.2% +8.2%
MILLER, GARY ADDISON ELDO 1 66.7% +0.0%
AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 1 83.1% +7.0%
WEBB, MARGARET G 1 79.8% +8.5%
CHERY, DADY 1 88.0% +9.3%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18442632 AGING RESILIENT LEVEL SHIFTER NGUYEN, LONG T 10d overdue
18821040 MAINTAINING PHASE COHERENCE FOR A FRACTIONAL-N PLL CHEN, SIBIN 4d overdue
18342975 SCALABLE PACKET COMMUNICATION IN A LONG RANGE WIRELESS SYSTEM MEJIA, ANTHONY 14d
18390199 TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST PREAMBLE GENERATION FOR SCALABLE PACKETS IN LONG RANGE WIRELESS NETWORK MEJIA, ANTHONY 15d
18390181 ATTENUATOR HAVING EXTENDED ATTENUATION RANGE AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 16d
18633257 TIMING BASED SIGNAL VALLEY DETECTION POOS, JOHN W 41d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18545300 TIMING DETECTION IN A DEMODULATOR WEBB, MARGARET G 26d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18342975 SCALABLE PACKET COMMUNICATION IN A LONG RANGE WIRELESS SYSTEM MEJIA, ANTHONY 14d
18390199 TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST PREAMBLE GENERATION FOR SCALABLE PACKETS IN LONG RANGE WIRELESS NETWORK MEJIA, ANTHONY 15d
18657069 NOISE DOWN CONVERSION FOR JITTER REDUCTION YOUSSEF, MENATOALLAH M 26d
18760801 SLEEP MANAGEMENT FOR RTOS ENVIRONMENT YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2896 2
2451 2
2412 2
2175 1
2849 1
2842 1
2417 1
2649 1
2641 1
2418 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18821040 MAINTAINING PHASE COHERENCE FOR A FRACTIONAL-N PLL CHEN, SIBIN 2896 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2024
18760801 SLEEP MANAGEMENT FOR RTOS ENVIRONMENT YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jul 01, 2024
18657069 NOISE DOWN CONVERSION FOR JITTER REDUCTION YOUSSEF, MENATOALLAH M 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 07, 2024
18633257 TIMING BASED SIGNAL VALLEY DETECTION POOS, JOHN W 2896 §102 Final Rejection 41d Pending Apr 11, 2024
18442632 AGING RESILIENT LEVEL SHIFTER NGUYEN, LONG T 2842 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18427433 Reliable TCP Data Transfer Using Target Wake Time (TWT) MILLER, GARY ADDISON ELDO 2417 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18390181 ATTENUATOR HAVING EXTENDED ATTENUATION RANGE AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 2649 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18390199 TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST PREAMBLE GENERATION FOR SCALABLE PACKETS IN LONG RANGE WIRELESS NETWORK MEJIA, ANTHONY 2451 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18545300 TIMING DETECTION IN A DEMODULATOR WEBB, MARGARET G 2641 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18525266 ACTIVE SCANNING WITH EXCLUDED SSID LISTS CHERY, DADY 2418 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18383704 Baudrate Tracking with Using Pattern Detectors for Synchronization Pattern Detection PASCUAL PEGUERO, NATALI 2463 Other Non-Final OA 47d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18243222 KALMAN FILTER BASED PHASE-LOCKED LOOP FOR PHASE-SHIFT KEYING OR QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATED SIGNALS JAVAID, JAMAL 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18342975 SCALABLE PACKET COMMUNICATION IN A LONG RANGE WIRELESS SYSTEM MEJIA, ANTHONY 2451 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18206178 SELF-CONFIGURATION OF MULTI-PROTOCOL NODES IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK MARKS, RACHEL ELIZABETH 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
17677009 COMPRESSING INFORMATION IN AN END NODE USING AN AUTOENCODER NEURAL NETWORK LEY, SALLY THI 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2022

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