Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silicon Motion Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, ensuring a variety of individual reviews.
The company's work is distributed among 4 distinct art units, which shows a relatively broad administrative footprint within the Computing & Software sector. BORROMEO, JUANITO C is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The ratio of 5 pending office actions to 5 distinct examiners indicates that each matter is being handled by a different person. The use of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's Computing & Software applications cover several different technical sub-categories. For the practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be adapted for 5 distinct examiners, each potentially having different interpretations of the law. The 4 distinct art units also imply that the legal team must be prepared for the specific procedural nuances of four different administrative groups. This distribution reduces the risk of the entire portfolio being affected by the tendencies of a single examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 | 76.2% | +13.5% |
| MA, WEI | 1 | 73.0% | +6.3% |
| THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 1 | 86.9% | +7.4% |
| ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 1 | 94.2% | +3.2% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.2% |
| KRIEGER, JONAH C | 1 | 85.3% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661689 | WRITE MANAGEMENT MECHANISM FOR ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND LIFESPAN OF QUAD-LEVEL CELL FLASH MEMORY | KRIEGER, JONAH C | 53d overdue |
| 19014299 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DATA REFRESH METHOD | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 16d overdue |
| 18920966 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND CODING METHOD SUPPORTING MULTI-CODING MODE CODING OPERATIONS IN RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT PAGE SIZES | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | — |
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.
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 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2112 | 1 |
| 2133 | 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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19014299 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DATA REFRESH METHOD | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 2137 | §102 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18920966 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND CODING METHOD SUPPORTING MULTI-CODING MODE CODING OPERATIONS IN RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT PAGE SIZES | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 2112 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2024 |
| 18731370 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND HOST DEVICE COUPLED TO MEMORY DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAM S | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18661689 | WRITE MANAGEMENT MECHANISM FOR ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND LIFESPAN OF QUAD-LEVEL CELL FLASH MEMORY | KRIEGER, JONAH C | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2024 |
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