Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tektronix Inc.

29 pending office actions • 14 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
10
Due this month
5
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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (5)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.

1
Hard (3%)
28
Medium (97%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§103 only27 (93%)
§102 only1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
3% of docket
3
Information Tech
10% of docket
4
Communications
14% of docket
20
Semiconductors
69% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
3% 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.

290 h
Manual time on pending OAs
58 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
102 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ISLA, RICHARD 2 76.6% +15.4%
MONSUR, NASIMA 2 78.5% +26.2%
QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2 54.1% +32.6%
NGUYEN, CINDY 1 78.4% +9.2%
SNYDER, ADAM J 1 69.6% +18.8%
NGUYEN, LINH V 1 89.1% +2.3%
SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 1 56.5% +17.9%
SANGHERA, JAS A 1 94.7% +4.8%
RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J 1 86.7% +9.0%
KUNTZ, CURTIS A 1 32.7% +13.1%

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
18739160 WIDEBAND SIGNAL GENERATOR NGUYEN, LINH V 56d overdue
18613687 COMPACT BALUN STRUCTURE FOR BROADBAND TIME-DOMAIN APPLICATIONS RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J 13d
18641314 SYSTEM AND METHODS TO ACCURATELY MEASURE DYNAMIC RESISTANCE FOR POWER DEVICES SANGHERA, JAS A 14d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17859989 USAGE-AWARE COMPRESSION FOR STREAMING DATA FROM A TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT BARNES, TED W 26d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18485257 CUSTOMIZABLE SAFETY ENCLOSURE FOR A DEVICE UNDER TEST ISLA, RICHARD 46d overdue
18135066 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WAVEFORM SEARCHING BY EXAMPLE QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 31d overdue
18582360 IDENTIFYING AND DECODING MULTIPLE NFC RESPONSES FOLLOWING NFC INVENTORY REQUEST KUNTZ, CURTIS A 30d overdue
18514800 INTEROPERABILITY PREDICTOR USING MACHINE LEARNING AND REPOSITORY OF TX, CHANNEL, AND RX MODELS FROM MULTIPLE VENDORS QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 17d overdue
18656487 TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT THAT USES MEASUREMENT PRECONDITIONS FOR MAKING MEASUREMENTS SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 15d overdue
19232165 TOUCH SENSOR USER INTERFACE FOR A TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT SNYDER, ADAM J 8d
18652163 ISOLATED TEST AND MEASUREMENT PROBE ISLA, RICHARD 19d
18604102 CURRENT SHUNT USING WIRE BUNDLE CONSTRUCTION MONSUR, NASIMA 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 11
2858 6
2161 1
2623 1
2845 1
2852 1
2646 1
3648 1
2631 1
2194 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19242869 DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE SETS FOR USE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANTS NGUYEN, CINDY 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jun 18, 2025
19232165 TOUCH SENSOR USER INTERFACE FOR A TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT SNYDER, ADAM J 2623 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 09, 2025
18739160 WIDEBAND SIGNAL GENERATOR NGUYEN, LINH V 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2024
18656487 TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT THAT USES MEASUREMENT PRECONDITIONS FOR MAKING MEASUREMENTS SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18652163 ISOLATED TEST AND MEASUREMENT PROBE ISLA, RICHARD 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending May 01, 2024
18641314 SYSTEM AND METHODS TO ACCURATELY MEASURE DYNAMIC RESISTANCE FOR POWER DEVICES SANGHERA, JAS A 2852 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18613687 COMPACT BALUN STRUCTURE FOR BROADBAND TIME-DOMAIN APPLICATIONS RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 22, 2024
18604102 CURRENT SHUNT USING WIRE BUNDLE CONSTRUCTION MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18582360 IDENTIFYING AND DECODING MULTIPLE NFC RESPONSES FOLLOWING NFC INVENTORY REQUEST KUNTZ, CURTIS A 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2024
18436661 SELF-CALIBRATING RADAR SENSOR FOR BEAM PREDICTION DISCOVERY GOOD, KENNETH W 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Feb 08, 2024
18412151 AUTOMATED CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION FOR MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED RIS-AIDED MIMO SYSTEMS LUGO, DAVID B 2631 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18523556 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL DISTRIBUTION ARCHITECTURE MILLS, FRANK D 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18514800 INTEROPERABILITY PREDICTOR USING MACHINE LEARNING AND REPOSITORY OF TX, CHANNEL, AND RX MODELS FROM MULTIPLE VENDORS QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18385318 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CHARACTERIZE THE PERFORMANCE OF ELECTRICAL STORAGE SYSTEMS DESTA, ELIAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18485257 CUSTOMIZABLE SAFETY ENCLOSURE FOR A DEVICE UNDER TEST ISLA, RICHARD 2858 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2023
18478556 ADAPTIVE INSTRUMENT NOISE REMOVAL BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18243632 CURRENT SHUNT WITH CANCELING MUTUAL INDUCTANCE MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18354584 FLEXIBLE ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATOR AND INTERNAL SIGNAL MONITOR GEISS, BRIAN BUTLER 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18353638 HIGH SPEED WAVEFORM ACQUISITIONS AND HISTOGRAMS USING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT IN A TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT NGUYEN, LAM S 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18211410 GENERATING TEST DATA USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS ZAAB, SHARAH 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2023
18135066 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WAVEFORM SEARCHING BY EXAMPLE QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18105736 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING POWER SUPPLY INDUCED JITTER KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Feb 03, 2023
18081616 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING AND DEPLOYMENT MISIR, DAYWAYSHWAR D 2127 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 14, 2022
18060463 LAMINATED STRUCTURE FOR THERMAL CONDUCTION IN A FLEXIBLE ELECTRICAL SUBSTRATE WALSHON, SCOTT R 1759 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2022
17859989 USAGE-AWARE COMPRESSION FOR STREAMING DATA FROM A TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT BARNES, TED W 2682 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 07, 2022
17701662 TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT HAVING PROGRAMMABLE ACQUISITION HISTORY STORAGE AND RESTORE ALKAFAWI, EMAN A 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 202d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022
17701658 TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT HAVING PROGRAMMABLE ACQUISITION HISTORY CHARIOUI, MOHAMED 2857 §103 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022
17681617 TEST AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 2857 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending Feb 25, 2022
17191059 IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE ACQUISITIONS OF INTEREST USING VISUAL QUALIFICATION NGHIEM, MICHAEL P 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2021

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