Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smart Modular Technologies Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating examiner-level dispersion with some shared unit activity. Portfolio review should coordinate semiconductor and circuit terminology while accounting for differing examination assignments.
KRIM, PETER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner holds more than the listed single matter, so counsel may need to rely on matter-specific analysis rather than a dominant examiner pattern.
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 (75%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRIM, PETER | 1 | 83.2% | +3.5% |
| CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | 1 | 56.4% | +29.5% |
| SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 1 | 80.5% | +26.1% |
| FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 1 | 58.1% | +14.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904392 | MEMORY MODULE MOUNTING FRAME | KRIM, PETER | — |
| 18240402 | MEMORY MODULES INCLUDING ACTIVE COOLING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389247 | ENERGY SOURCE FOR MEMORY DEVICE | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389247 | ENERGY SOURCE FOR MEMORY DEVICE | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | — |
| 18240402 | MEMORY MODULES INCLUDING ACTIVE COOLING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | — |
| 18087198 | SINGLE-SLOT PCIE CARD WITH EXPANDED MEMORY | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 3 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904392 | MEMORY MODULE MOUNTING FRAME | KRIM, PETER | 2841 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18389247 | ENERGY SOURCE FOR MEMORY DEVICE | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | 2841 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18240402 | MEMORY MODULES INCLUDING ACTIVE COOLING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 2841 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18087198 | SINGLE-SLOT PCIE CARD WITH EXPANDED MEMORY | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSmart Modular Technologies Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Peter Krim has the most, with 1 of Smart Modular Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
