Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Walton Advanced Engineering Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. MAHMUD, GOLAM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The distribution of 5 pending office actions across separate art units suggests a broad range of technical subject matter.
The company's 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, ensuring a variety of perspectives during the prosecution process. MAHMUD, GOLAM is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the workload of the other officials. Because the cases are located in 5 distinct art units, the company must manage five different sets of technical guidelines.
This lack of concentration across 5 distinct art units indicates that the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio is technically diverse and requires a broad prosecution approach. Each official is handling a single action, ensuring independent reviews for each application. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across the different technical groups. A versatile strategy is necessary to address the unique procedural nuances of each individual art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHMUD, GOLAM | 1 | 61.5% | +30.1% |
| SURVILLO, OLEG | 1 | 72.6% | +28.9% |
| MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 1 | 85.3% | +14.4% |
| STARK, JARRETT J | 1 | 70.4% | +11.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220245 | CHIP PACKAGE UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND PACKAGE STRUCTURE FORMED BY STACKING THE SAME | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18207658 | CHIP PACKAGE | STARK, JARRETT J | 1d overdue |
| 18647133 | Metaverse Implementation Method | MAHMUD, GOLAM | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18207658 | CHIP PACKAGE | STARK, JARRETT J | 1d overdue |
| 18368065 | METHOD FOR HIGH-SECURITY NETWORK MESSAGE TRANSMISSION | SURVILLO, OLEG | 14d |
| 18647133 | Metaverse Implementation Method | MAHMUD, GOLAM | — |
| 18220245 | CHIP PACKAGE UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND PACKAGE STRUCTURE FORMED BY STACKING THE SAME | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2458 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18647133 | Metaverse Implementation Method | MAHMUD, GOLAM | 2458 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18368065 | METHOD FOR HIGH-SECURITY NETWORK MESSAGE TRANSMISSION | SURVILLO, OLEG | 2457 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18220245 | CHIP PACKAGE UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND PACKAGE STRUCTURE FORMED BY STACKING THE SAME | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 2814 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18207658 | CHIP PACKAGE | STARK, JARRETT J | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWalton Advanced Engineering Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Golam Mahmud has the most, with 1 of Walton Advanced Engineering Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
