Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days
Synaptics Incorporated holds a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The company currently has 7 pending office actions. These actions are widely distributed across 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations in Communications touch upon multiple specialized examination groups. This broad administrative presence suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy covers a diverse range of technical applications within this field.
The prosecution is handled by 7 distinct examiners. This matches the total number of 7 pending office actions, meaning each action is under the review of a different individual. HUYNH, KIM T is listed as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 7 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly spread. Navigating 5 distinct art units with various examiners requires a broad strategy to address the different perspectives encountered during the prosecution of this Communications portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared to manage the various examiners across the 5 distinct art units to ensure consistent outcomes for the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (88%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, KIM T | 1 | 82.6% | +7.2% |
| PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
| KIYABU, KARIN A | 1 | 57.0% | +39.8% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 65.0% | +46.7% |
| VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | 1 | 82.8% | +36.8% |
| FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 1 | 63.9% | +17.1% |
| MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 33.3% | +52.4% |
| BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 1 | 51.3% | +35.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089898 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE WARPING | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | — |
| 18397787 | REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN 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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19208410 | MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE | HUYNH, KIM T | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739155 | MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR MOBILE DEVICES | KIYABU, KARIN A | 7d |
| 18515048 | CAPACITIVE DETECTION OF FOLD ANGLE FOR FOLDABLE DEVICES | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 15d |
| 18310955 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL BEAMFORMING BASED ON PERSONAL VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD) | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 29d |
| 17936321 | RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 55d |
| 19089898 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE WARPING | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | — |
| 18653859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOUCH CLASSIFICATION IN A TOUCH SENSOR | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — |
| 18397787 | REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2469 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208410 | MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE | HUYNH, KIM T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19089898 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE WARPING | PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18739155 | MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR MOBILE DEVICES | KIYABU, KARIN A | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18653859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOUCH CLASSIFICATION IN A TOUCH SENSOR | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18397787 | REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18515048 | CAPACITIVE DETECTION OF FOLD ANGLE FOR FOLDABLE DEVICES | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18310955 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL BEAMFORMING BASED ON PERSONAL VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD) | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 17936321 | RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 2124 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
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