Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
129 pending office actions • 40 art units • 96 examiners • 0 of 129 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 316 patents granted in the last 365 days
Skyworks Solutions Inc. maintains a very large portfolio with 129 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 96 distinct examiners, which means many examiners are handling multiple applications for the company. The portfolio's technical breadth is significant, spanning 40 distinct art units at the patent office. This high number of 40 distinct art units indicates a very diverse range of semiconductor and optical innovations.
YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 4 pending office actions. While 4 actions is the highest concentration for a single examiner, it represents only a small fraction of the 129 pending office actions total. This distribution requires a highly coordinated prosecution strategy to ensure consistency across 96 distinct examiners. Practitioners must manage a vast array of examiner preferences across 40 distinct art units to successfully advance the 129 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 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. 28 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (2%) |
| §103 only | 45 (35%) |
| §102 only | 10 (8%) |
| §112 only | 3 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 12 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 6 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 48 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | 4 | 93.8% | +17.4% |
| OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | 4 | 79.2% | +19.4% |
| TRA, ANH QUAN | 4 | 72.9% | +5.2% |
| COLE, VICTOR | 4 | 91.8% | +10.3% |
| WONG, ALAN | 4 | 83.1% | +8.9% |
| VO, NGUYEN THANH | 4 | 85.1% | +6.6% |
| O TOOLE, COLLEEN J | 3 | 58.0% | +10.9% |
| SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | 3 | 95.0% | +6.1% |
| RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 3 | 93.2% | +8.8% |
| BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 3 | 80.3% | +26.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822702 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS | WONG, ALAN | 28d |
| 17809937 | CLASS INVERSE F DOHERTY AMPLIFIER | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 56d |
| 19187419 | PAIR OF RESONATORS WITH IMPROVED TURNING DISTANCE | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | — |
| 18674818 | PHASE SHIFTER FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION | VO, NGUYEN THANH | — |
| 18629634 | MODULATED POWER CONSUMPTION | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — |
| 18614552 | VARIABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIERS WITH CONFIGURABLE IMPEDANCE CIRCUITS | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — |
| 18612429 | BIAS-BASED POWER AMPLIFIER LOAD MODULATION | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | — |
| 18195189 | POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM WITH ADJUSTABLE SIGNAL PATH FOR MULTIPLE-MODES | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162419 | SHIELDED WAFER LEVEL CHIP SCALE PACKAGE WITH SHIELD CONNECTED TO GROUND VIA REDISTRIBUTION LAYERS | SLUTSKER, JULIA | 79d overdue |
| 17964297 | POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM WITH INCREASED OUTPUT POWER FOR ENVELOPE TRACKING APPLICATIONS | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 31d overdue |
| 18069057 | METHOD OF MAKING ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH VERTICALLY MASS LOADED MULTI-LAYER INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCER ELECTRODE FOR TRANSVERSE MODE SUPPRESSION | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 24d overdue |
| 18627524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING HARMONICS IN COMMUNICATION MODULES | LEE, JOHN J | 16d |
| 18464182 | PACKAGING SUBSTRATE HAVING METAL POSTS | MUSLIM, SHAWN SHAW | 26d |
| 18101089 | ADJUSTING ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED WAVEFORMS USING SELECTED SUBCARRIERS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 27d |
| 18329387 | METHODS FOR MOUNTING AN ELECTRONIC PACKAGE TO A CIRCUIT BOARD | BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | 28d |
| 18604301 | PACKAGING SUBSTRATES HAVING RINGLESS VIAS | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 30d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788136 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES | OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | 42d overdue |
| 17964297 | POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM WITH INCREASED OUTPUT POWER FOR ENVELOPE TRACKING APPLICATIONS | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 31d overdue |
| 17809937 | CLASS INVERSE F DOHERTY AMPLIFIER | BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN | 56d |
| 19230534 | BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE DUPLEXER INCLUDING RESONATORS HAVING TOP AND BOTTOM MASS LOADS | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — |
| 19229344 | INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCER CAPACITOR WITH MODULATED PITCH | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — |
| 19214709 | HIGH COUPLING COEFFICIENT RESONATOR MATCHING FOR PERFORMANCE | OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | — |
| 19194810 | MIXER FOR PROVIDING COMPENSATING CURRENT IN DC BIAS LOOP | O TOOLE, COLLEEN J | — |
| 19181859 | SILICON-SUPPORTED WAFER TO WAFER SOLDER BOND | OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2843 | 17 |
| 2646 | 4 |
| 3729 | 4 |
| 2891 | 3 |
| 2849 | 2 |
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2648 | 2 |
| 2899 | 2 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19230534 | BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE DUPLEXER INCLUDING RESONATORS HAVING TOP AND BOTTOM MASS LOADS | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19229344 | INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCER CAPACITOR WITH MODULATED PITCH | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19218166 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATED TO CONFIGURING MULTI-STREAM NETWORK WITH STREAM-AWARE SCHEDULING | NGUYEN, QUANG N | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19214709 | HIGH COUPLING COEFFICIENT RESONATOR MATCHING FOR PERFORMANCE | OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19207057 | CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTERS FOR AUDIO AMPLIFIERS | JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19201268 | STACKED BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS | TRA, ANH QUAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19194810 | MIXER FOR PROVIDING COMPENSATING CURRENT IN DC BIAS LOOP | O TOOLE, COLLEEN J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19192679 | INTEGRATED THREE-DIMENSIONAL RADIO FREQUENCY ANTENNA, RADIO FREQUENCY MODULE AND WIRELESS RADIO FREQUENCY-BASED COMMUNICATION DEVICE | LOTTER, DAVID E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19188930 | SHIELDING A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND NOISE DURING TESTING | NGO, HUNG V | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19187419 | PAIR OF RESONATORS WITH IMPROVED TURNING DISTANCE | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19181859 | SILICON-SUPPORTED WAFER TO WAFER SOLDER BOND | OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19176707 | TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESONATORS | PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19176656 | SHEAR HORIZONTAL MODE SPUR SUPPRESSION FOR TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES | PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19176445 | DUAL ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTER WITH COMMON GROUND PATTERN | LEE, BENNY T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19173122 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCER ELECTRODE FINGERS HAVING MULTIPLE LINER DENSITIES IN BORDER REGION | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19091440 | PHASE CANCELLING CIRCUIT IN MULTI-LAYER PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTRATE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION STRUCTURE | TRA, ANH QUAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19069655 | ACOUSTIC WAVE SYSTEM WITH CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19069673 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE | COLE, VICTOR | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19067890 | ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORK | SELLERS, DANIEL R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2025 |
| 19050372 | MULTI-TERMINAL BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR UTILIZING OVERTONE MODES | WONG, ALAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19036144 | ACOUSTIC FILTER ASSEMBLY WITH TUNABLE PASSBAND, A RADIO FREQUENCY MODULE, AND MOBILE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | TRA, ANH QUAN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19034817 | ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTER HAVING ACOUSTIC REFLECTORS WITH ADJUSTED PITCHES | GLENN, KIMBERLY E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19033853 | FILTER MODULE WITH WIDENED PASSBAND | SMITH, GRAHAM P | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19030382 | ATTENUATORS FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS | O TOOLE, COLLEEN J | 2849 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024649 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH GERMANIUM OXIDE LAYER | COLE, VICTOR | 2843 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19024758 | BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION LAYER | COLE, VICTOR | 2843 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19024715 | MULTILAYER PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTRATE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION STRUCTURE | COLE, VICTOR | 2843 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025708 | PACKAGED MODULE WITH FRONT END INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, CRYSTAL, AND SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP | PATEL, DHAVAL V | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19017770 | DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO SWITCH LINEARIZATION BY COMPENSATION OF A FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR | CHEN, PATRICK C | 2842 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2025 |
| 19015332 | SWITCH CIRCUITRY FOR SIMULTANEOUS SIGNAL ROUTING | SHAH, TANMAY K | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19012729 | COMBINER FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND METHODS | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19012722 | LOW VOLTAGE FOR AUDIO CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND METHODS | HAMID, AMMAR T | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19001274 | CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO AUDIO AMPLIFIERS HAVING GAIN CALIBRATION | LAO, LUNSEE | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18984104 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTING MILLIMETER WAVE CELLULAR SERVICE OVER A FACE OF A BUILDING | PEREZ, JULIO R | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18984727 | LOAD MODULATED POWER AMPLIFIERS | TRAN, TUAN A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18983057 | DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO VOLTAGE COMPENSATED SWITCH STACK | JIA, XIN | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18983118 | DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO WIDEBAND MULTIPLEXER FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS | HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18963179 | AMPLIFIER WITH BYPASS MODE AND NOTCH FILTER | KIM, JUNG H | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18960828 | RADIO FREQUENCY CARRIER AGGREGATION SUPPORT ARCHITECTURE | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18954303 | DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO UNPOWERED SWITCHING MODULE | LU, ZHIYU | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18951451 | MULTIPLEXER WITH FILTER INCLUDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS | GLENN, KIMBERLY E | 2843 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18942214 | ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTER WITH LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER AND BALUN | PHAM, TUAN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18935363 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATED TO DESYNCHRONIZING COMMUNICATION INTERVALS FOR CO-LOCATED DEVICES | ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN | 2445 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18931524 | MITIGATION OF ANTENNA PUNCTURING ARISING FROM SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALING | BURGESS, GLENTON B | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18917869 | STACKED DEVICE STRUCTURE WITH A BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR SUPPORTED BY A SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | 2843 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18917840 | RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT-END WITH INDUCTIVE COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER | PHAM, TUAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18907871 | ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH PATTERNED CONDUCTIVE LAYER FOR TRANSVERSE MODE SUPPRESSION | OUTTEN, SAMUEL S | 2843 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18895114 | POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS INCLUDING CONTROL INTERFACE AND WIRE BOND PAD | NGUYEN, KHANH V | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18892886 | ULTRAHIGH BAND ARCHITECTURE FOR RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT-ENDS | HU, RUI MENG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18826055 | BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTOR WITH NARROW LEDGE BETWEEN EMITTER AND BASE CONTACT | MALEK, MALIHEH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSkyworks Solutions Inc. has 129 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 40 art units and 96 examiners.
Abigail Amir Yaldo has the most, with 4 of Skyworks Solutions Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.