Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silicon Motion Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a separate examiner and art-unit assignment for each pending matter.
BORROMEO, JUANITO C is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The data show no repeated assignment. Counsel can maintain separate response strategies while using the shared technology area to coordinate terminology and disclosure positions.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORROMEO, JUANITO C | 1 | 76.3% | +13.3% |
| MA, WEI | 1 | 73.0% | +6.3% |
| BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 1 | 89.6% | +2.0% |
| THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 1 | 86.8% | +7.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014299 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DATA REFRESH METHOD | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 16d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023324 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198143 | A SERIALIZER AND A DESERIALIZER | BORROMEO, JUANITO C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2135 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198143 | A SERIALIZER AND A DESERIALIZER | BORROMEO, JUANITO C | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19057898 | Methods for sorting commands and memory controller utilizing the same | MA, WEI | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19023324 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 2825 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19014299 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DATA REFRESH METHOD | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 2137 | §102 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSilicon Motion Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Juanito C Borromeo has the most, with 1 of Silicon Motion Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
