Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Synopsys, Inc.

12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 140 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

2
Hard (17%)
10
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (17%)
§103 only9 (75%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
42% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
6
Semiconductors
50% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SINHA, SNIGDHA 1 50.0% +58.3%
BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 1 62.9% +19.6%
HINZE, LEO T 1 52.9% +10.5%
SOUNDRANAYAGAM, RAYAPPU NMN 1
AISAKA, BRYCE M 1 87.4% +10.3%
MEMULA, SURESH 1 87.5% -0.4%
LIN, ARIC 1 60.0% +12.9%
HAO, YI 1 34.9% +43.8%
OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 1 67.7% +22.0%
TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 1 55.6% +66.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18137382 CONSTANT, EQUAL, OR OPPOSITE REGISTERS OR PORTS DETECTION DURING LOGIC SYNTHESIS AISAKA, BRYCE M 16d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18523596 INTERACTIVE VISUAL LOGFILE COMPARISON BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 5d overdue
18131795 DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF SAFETY MECHANISM WITHIN A CIRCUIT DESIGN MEMULA, SURESH 16d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18137382 CONSTANT, EQUAL, OR OPPOSITE REGISTERS OR PORTS DETECTION DURING LOGIC SYNTHESIS AISAKA, BRYCE M 16d overdue
18429377 EXTENDED REALITY-BASED VISUALIZATION FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PLANNING AND INSTALLATION SINHA, SNIGDHA 9d overdue
18523596 INTERACTIVE VISUAL LOGFILE COMPARISON BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 5d overdue
18374898 SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF DETERMINING CORROSION RISKS HINZE, LEO T 2d overdue
17748987 PARALLEL AND SCALABLE COMPUTATION OF STRONGLY CONNECTED COMPONENTS IN A CIRCUIT DESIGN OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 15d
17741335 AUTOMATED METALENS DESIGN SYSTEM TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 29d
18071396 PROCESS TO RELAY KNOWLEDGE AND GUIDE SYNTHESIS ALONGSIDE EARLY DETECTION OF LOGIC OPTIMIZATIONS LIN, ARIC 56d
17845403 SYNCHRONIZING DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS OF A CIRCUIT DESIGN HAO, YI 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2851 5
2619 1
2171 1
2853 1
2187 1
2186 1
2189 1
2115 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18429377 EXTENDED REALITY-BASED VISUALIZATION FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PLANNING AND INSTALLATION SINHA, SNIGDHA 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18523596 INTERACTIVE VISUAL LOGFILE COMPARISON BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18374898 SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF DETERMINING CORROSION RISKS HINZE, LEO T 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18139882 CIRCUIT DESIGN ADJUSTMENTS USING REDUNDANT NODES SOUNDRANAYAGAM, RAYAPPU NMN 2851 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18137382 CONSTANT, EQUAL, OR OPPOSITE REGISTERS OR PORTS DETECTION DURING LOGIC SYNTHESIS AISAKA, BRYCE M 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18131795 DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF SAFETY MECHANISM WITHIN A CIRCUIT DESIGN MEMULA, SURESH 2851 §101 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Apr 06, 2023
18071396 PROCESS TO RELAY KNOWLEDGE AND GUIDE SYNTHESIS ALONGSIDE EARLY DETECTION OF LOGIC OPTIMIZATIONS LIN, ARIC 2851 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Nov 29, 2022
17845403 SYNCHRONIZING DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS OF A CIRCUIT DESIGN HAO, YI 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jun 21, 2022
17748987 PARALLEL AND SCALABLE COMPUTATION OF STRONGLY CONNECTED COMPONENTS IN A CIRCUIT DESIGN OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 2186 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 19, 2022
17741335 AUTOMATED METALENS DESIGN SYSTEM TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 2189 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 10, 2022
17558952 BOOLEAN METHODS FOR ENGINEERING CHANGE ORDER (ECO) PATCH IDENTIFICATION ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED 2851 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Dec 22, 2021
17457187 IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SIMULATION PERFORMANCE OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN SHAH, KAMINI S 2115 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 01, 2021

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