Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tenstorrent Usa Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. The workload is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety within the portfolio's primary focus. This arrangement suggests that while the company's innovations are all within the software domain, they fall into at least three different specialized categories for examination purposes.
The busiest examiner, SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that the 6 pending actions are evenly distributed, with no single examiner handling multiple cases. With 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, the applicant must manage six different examiner relationships while navigating the standards of three separate technical divisions. This fragmentation means that prosecution successes in one case may not easily translate to others, as the 6 distinct examiners may have differing interpretations of patentability. Practitioners should prepare for a range of feedback across the 6 pending office actions, requiring a flexible and individualized response strategy for each application within the Computing & Software field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 89.7% | +4.6% |
| CHOI, CHARLES J | 1 | 82.9% | +5.0% |
| BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 74.6% | +7.6% |
| RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA | 1 | 57.1% | +100.0% |
| MUDRICK, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 83.6% | +14.6% |
| VICARY, KEITH E | 1 | 57.7% | +40.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19093258 | AI Accelerator Cores with Integrated CPU for External Communication Over Ethernet | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 18824055 | PROCESSOR WITH DISPATCH BUFFER ALLOCATION AFFINITY CREDIT ADJUSTMENT | MUDRICK, TIMOTHY A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759786 | INSTRUCTION FETCH GROUP EXIT POINT PREDICTION USING OFFSET COUNTERS | VICARY, KEITH E | 12d |
| 19089026 | Transaction and Request Buffers for Cache Miss Handling | CHOI, CHARLES J | — |
| 18887051 | Flexible Cache Pooling for Network of Processing Cores | RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759786 | INSTRUCTION FETCH GROUP EXIT POINT PREDICTION USING OFFSET COUNTERS | VICARY, KEITH E | 12d |
| 18887051 | Flexible Cache Pooling for Network of Processing Cores | RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA | — |
| 18824055 | PROCESSOR WITH DISPATCH BUFFER ALLOCATION AFFINITY CREDIT ADJUSTMENT | MUDRICK, TIMOTHY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2133 | 1 |
| 2138 | 1 |
| 2183 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19093258 | AI Accelerator Cores with Integrated CPU for External Communication Over Ethernet | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19089026 | Transaction and Request Buffers for Cache Miss Handling | CHOI, CHARLES J | 2133 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18911234 | Multicore Processor Clock Distribution Using Asynchronous Wavefront | BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D | 2138 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18887051 | Flexible Cache Pooling for Network of Processing Cores | RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18824055 | PROCESSOR WITH DISPATCH BUFFER ALLOCATION AFFINITY CREDIT ADJUSTMENT | MUDRICK, TIMOTHY A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18759786 | INSTRUCTION FETCH GROUP EXIT POINT PREDICTION USING OFFSET COUNTERS | VICARY, KEITH E | 2183 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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