Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
44 pending office actions • 17 art units • 31 examiners • 0 of 44 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 154 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (9%) |
| §103 only | 14 (32%) |
| §102 only | 4 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 19 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 10 | 80.9% | +18.2% |
| CHAU, LISA N | 4 | 25.2% | +17.5% |
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2 | 70.0% | +50.0% |
| AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 1 | 83.9% | +12.6% |
| RENNER, CRAIG A | 1 | 84.2% | +17.6% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.6% | +16.0% |
| MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 1 | 57.1% | +80.0% |
| CRITE, ANTONIO B | 1 | 81.6% | -13.4% |
| AHMED, SHAHED | 1 | 90.8% | -0.1% |
| MEHTA, RATISHA | 1 | 89.6% | +5.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509051 | BONDING STRUCTURES FOR HIGH-DENSITY METAL-TO-METAL BONDING AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | MEHTA, RATISHA | 41d |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 46d |
| 19244507 | Magnetic Recording Head with A Cross-Track Current Flow In A Low Resistance Path | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19227025 | HARD DISK DRIVE INTERPOSE SWAGE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19201452 | Middle Shields Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Read Heads | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19076557 | SUSPENSION ARM AND SLIDER CONTACT FOR MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19041235 | Shunt Reducing Migration Barrier Layer Materials and Insertion Techniques for Epitaxial Topological Materials | RENNER, CRAIG A | — |
| 18830299 | INTER-COVER PLACEMENT OF GAS-PRODUCING SUBSTANCES IN DATA STORAGE DEVICES | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361575 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING OVERLYING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | YUSHINA, GALINA G | 9d |
| 18666635 | OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF LUBRICANT WITH MODIFIED EPOXIDE-BASED LINKAGES | CHAU, LISA N | 12d |
| 18233697 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A METAL OXIDE ETCH STOP LAYER AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | LI, MEIYA | 14d |
| 19237544 | LUBRICANTS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE DEWETTING THICKNESS THEREOF | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 50d |
| 18343173 | REDUCING DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE SCHEMES | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 55d |
| 19359379 | Reduction Of High Tape Contact Pressure Points Against Head Assembly | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19221385 | HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION FINE ACTUATOR WITH MINIATURIZED SINGLE-LAYER PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19042284 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA/DISKS AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA/DISKS SUITABLE FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666635 | OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF LUBRICANT WITH MODIFIED EPOXIDE-BASED LINKAGES | CHAU, LISA N | 12d |
| 18757954 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH SMALL RECORDING GRAIN SIZES, HIGH ASPECT RATIO, AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 39d |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 46d |
| 19237544 | LUBRICANTS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE DEWETTING THICKNESS THEREOF | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 50d |
| 19359379 | Reduction Of High Tape Contact Pressure Points Against Head Assembly | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19244507 | Magnetic Recording Head with A Cross-Track Current Flow In A Low Resistance Path | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19227025 | HARD DISK DRIVE INTERPOSE SWAGE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19221385 | HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION FINE ACTUATOR WITH MINIATURIZED SINGLE-LAYER PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 14 |
| 1785 | 5 |
| 2817 | 3 |
| 2897 | 3 |
| 2813 | 2 |
| 2811 | 2 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19359379 | Reduction Of High Tape Contact Pressure Points Against Head Assembly | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19244507 | Magnetic Recording Head with A Cross-Track Current Flow In A Low Resistance Path | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19237544 | LUBRICANTS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE DEWETTING THICKNESS THEREOF | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 2688 | §101DP | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19227025 | HARD DISK DRIVE INTERPOSE SWAGE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19221385 | HARD DISK DRIVE SUSPENSION FINE ACTUATOR WITH MINIATURIZED SINGLE-LAYER PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19201452 | Middle Shields Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Read Heads | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19076557 | SUSPENSION ARM AND SLIDER CONTACT FOR MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19056508 | Low Magnetostriction Material For Read Sensors | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19042284 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA/DISKS AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA/DISKS SUITABLE FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041235 | Shunt Reducing Migration Barrier Layer Materials and Insertion Techniques for Epitaxial Topological Materials | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18956203 | THERMO-MECHANICAL-OPTICAL BONDING OF LUBRICANTS TO CARBON OVERCOAT OF MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18830299 | INTER-COVER PLACEMENT OF GAS-PRODUCING SUBSTANCES IN DATA STORAGE DEVICES | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18757954 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH SMALL RECORDING GRAIN SIZES, HIGH ASPECT RATIO, AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18749413 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader with Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18666635 | OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF LUBRICANT WITH MODIFIED EPOXIDE-BASED LINKAGES | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18656812 | MEDIA LUBRICANTS SYNTHESIS WITH CLICK CHEMISTRY | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18646016 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH PILLAR SHAPED TRENCH BRIDGE STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18593481 | HIGH TEMPERATURE LUBRICANTS FOR MAGNETIC MEDIA HAVING MORE THERMALLY STABLE END GROUPS | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18523129 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH VARIABLE WORD LINE VIA CONTACT DENSITY AS FUNCTION OF CONTACT DEPTH AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | CRITE, ANTONIO B | 2817 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18508638 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING LATERALLY UNDULATING ISOLATION TRENCHES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | AHMED, SHAHED | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18509051 | BONDING STRUCTURES FOR HIGH-DENSITY METAL-TO-METAL BONDING AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | MEHTA, RATISHA | 2817 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18509010 | BONDING STRUCTURES FOR HIGH-DENSITY METAL-TO-METAL BONDING AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | LOPEZ, JORGE ANDRES | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18499024 | NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING USING NANOPORES | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18238952 | INTERPOSER FOR TROUBLESHOOTING A BALL GRID ARRAY (BGA) DEVICE AND COUPLING THE BGA DEVICE TO A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD WITH LIMITED HEAT EXPOSURE | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 3729 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18455988 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH THROUGH-STACK CONTACT VIA STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | 2812 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18451206 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY METHOD USING CASTELLATION SHAPED ASSIST FEATURES TO FORM A LINE-AND-SPACE PATTERN AND PHOTOMASK CONTAINING THE ASSIST FEATURES | LIN, ARIC | 1737 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18450150 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING TRENCH BRIDGE STRUCTURES HAVING DIFFERENT VOLUMES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | WEILAND, ADAM DAVID | 2813 | §102 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18233697 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A METAL OXIDE ETCH STOP LAYER AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | LI, MEIYA | 2811 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18448398 | Exposed Physical Partitions in Solid-State Storage Devices | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 2138 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18229489 | MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING HAFNIUM OR ZIRCONIUM OXIDE CONTAINING BLOCKING DIELECTRIC AND TUNGSTEN NITRIDE BARRIER AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | VU, HUNG K | 2897 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18361575 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING OVERLYING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | YUSHINA, GALINA G | 2811 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18361118 | Semiconductor Device Package with Coupled Substrates | BRASFIELD, QUINTON A | 2814 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18226199 | FOCUSED TESTING AND VERIFICATION OF CIRCUIT DESIGNS USING HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE SIMULATION | BOWERS, BRANDON | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18358768 | CROSS-POINT OVONIC FRUSTUM MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | ADROVEL, WILLIAM | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18356110 | GENERATING AND UPDATING SOFT INFORMATION FOR DNA-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS | SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18355064 | Multiple Neural Network Training Nodes in a Read Channel | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18347404 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING METAL INTERCONNECT STRUCTURES THAT CONTAIN SELECTIVELY-GROWN DIELECTRIC SPACERS AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | LEE, DA WEI | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18347371 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING DISCRETE CHARGE STORAGE ELEMENTS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | KIM, JAHAE | 2897 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18343173 | REDUCING DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE SCHEMES | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 2121 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18128862 | PIVOT-TO-ENCLOSURE FASTENING FOR REDUCING TORSIONAL VIBRATION OF ACTUATOR COIL IN HARD DISK DRIVE | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18161209 | Management of Storage Devices Utilizing Non-Fungible Tokens | WORKU, SARON MATTHEWOS | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18160974 | Optimizing Chia Plotting Storage and Memory Space | DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18004402 | SINGLE-MOLECULE, REAL-TIME, LABEL-FREE DYNAMIC BIOSENSING WITH NANOSCALE MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS | MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | 1677 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
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