Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm)

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
64% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
36% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OBERLY, ERIC T 1 73.8% +14.7%
MATIN, TASNIMA 1 89.8% +8.6%
LIN, ERICA S Y 1 85.9% +2.3%
SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 1 70.0% +50.0%
LOONAN, ERIC T 1 64.3% +26.6%
HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN 1 54.8% +24.3%
HAGOS, EYOB 1 67.0% +41.6%
YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 1 81.1% -2.9%
CHAN, TRACY C 1 78.8% -0.3%
SAIN, GAUTAM 1 67.0% +24.4%

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
18767876 Multi-Processor Block Based NAND Memory Access Interfaces MATIN, TASNIMA 5d overdue
18239428 THERMAL-MECHANICAL TESTING DEVICE FOR PLATFORM INTEGRATION LIN, ERICA S Y 9d
17848224 THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES WITH GAS SPACER YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 29d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18089870 PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS OVER FABRIC NETWORKS HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN 125d overdue
18086019 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A HYBRID TEMPERATURE OF A MEMORY DEVICE HAGOS, EYOB 30d overdue
18791987 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A COMPUTING ELEMENT OF A MEMORY DEVICE AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE OBERLY, ERIC T 18d overdue
17313668 DEVICE-INITIATED INPUT/OUTPUT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON DISK-CACHED AND TIERED SYSTEMS SAIN, GAUTAM 1d overdue
18237059 THERMAL SPREADER SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 21d
18227256 PROGRESSIVE REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INEXPENSIVE DISKS (RAID) FOR MEMORY DEVICES LOONAN, ERIC T 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2135 2
2184 1
2853 1
2812 1
2137 1
2465 1
2857 1
2899 1
2138 1
2432 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18791987 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A COMPUTING ELEMENT OF A MEMORY DEVICE AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE OBERLY, ERIC T 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2024
18767876 Multi-Processor Block Based NAND Memory Access Interfaces MATIN, TASNIMA 2135 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18239428 THERMAL-MECHANICAL TESTING DEVICE FOR PLATFORM INTEGRATION LIN, ERICA S Y 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18237059 THERMAL SPREADER SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18227256 PROGRESSIVE REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INEXPENSIVE DISKS (RAID) FOR MEMORY DEVICES LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18089870 PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS OVER FABRIC NETWORKS HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN 2465 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18086019 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A HYBRID TEMPERATURE OF A MEMORY DEVICE HAGOS, EYOB 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17848224 THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES WITH GAS SPACER YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 2899 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 23, 2022
17559870 CACHE EVICTIONS MANAGEMENT IN A TWO LEVEL MEMORY CONTROLLER MODE CHAN, TRACY C 2138 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2021
17313668 DEVICE-INITIATED INPUT/OUTPUT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON DISK-CACHED AND TIERED SYSTEMS SAIN, GAUTAM 2135 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending May 06, 2021
16420624 TECHNIQUES FOR DATA STORAGE PROTECTION AND INTEGRITY CHECKING SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending May 23, 2019

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