Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
51 pending office actions • 33 art units • 44 examiners • 0 of 51 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 263 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 51 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. 51 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 39 (76%) |
| §102 only | 5 (10%) |
| §112 only | 4 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (6%) |
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 | 3 | 80.8% | +18.6% |
| HINDI, NABIL Z | 2 | 87.4% | +8.9% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 2 | 43.6% | +16.0% |
| CHAU, LISA N | 2 | 24.9% | +16.4% |
| ADROVEL, WILLIAM | 2 | 42.3% | +55.0% |
| RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 1 | 83.9% | +12.6% |
| BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 67.0% | +11.7% |
| CHOI, YUK TING | 1 | 71.5% | +36.9% |
| COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 1 | 72.5% | +28.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18349560 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE HAVING CONTROLLED LATERAL ISOLATION TRENCH DEPTH AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER | 37d overdue |
| 18952399 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH FLEXIBLE LOGICAL TRACKS AND RADIUS-INDEPENDENT DATA RATE | HINDI, NABIL Z | 23d overdue |
| 19090327 | LASER HEATER FEEDBACK CONTROL IN HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING | HINDI, NABIL Z | 22d overdue |
| 18361550 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING PERIPHERAL CIRCUIT WITH FIN AND PLANAR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER | 9d |
| 19040639 | RuAl and MgTiO Lamination For Effective Buffer and Interlayers For Topological Material Layers | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 28d |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18308576 | Magnetic Read Sensors Having Reduced Signal Imbalance | CHAU, LISA N | 30d overdue |
| 18666635 | OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF LUBRICANT WITH MODIFIED EPOXIDE-BASED LINKAGES | CHAU, LISA N | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18308576 | Magnetic Read Sensors Having Reduced Signal Imbalance | CHAU, LISA N | 30d overdue |
| 18358768 | CROSS-POINT OVONIC FRUSTUM MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | ADROVEL, WILLIAM | 4d overdue |
| 18666635 | OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF LUBRICANT WITH MODIFIED EPOXIDE-BASED LINKAGES | CHAU, LISA N | 12d |
| 19040639 | RuAl and MgTiO Lamination For Effective Buffer and Interlayers For Topological Material Layers | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 28d |
| 18740053 | SERIAL INTERFACE COMPRISING DUAL CLOCK AND DATA I/O CELL | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 34d |
| 18640346 | ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM GENERATION FOR DATABASES | COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 35d |
| 18757954 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH SMALL RECORDING GRAIN SIZES, HIGH ASPECT RATIO, AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 39d |
| 19200292 | Magnetic Recording Head With Assisting Electric Current In Trailing Shield | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 6 |
| 2817 | 6 |
| 1785 | 4 |
| 2812 | 4 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2811 | 2 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| 2165 | 1 |
| 2827 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19237544 | LUBRICANTS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE DEWETTING THICKNESS THEREOF | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 2688 | Other | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19200292 | Magnetic Recording Head With Assisting Electric Current In Trailing Shield | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | Other | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19090327 | LASER HEATER FEEDBACK CONTROL IN HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19040639 | RuAl and MgTiO Lamination For Effective Buffer and Interlayers For Topological Material Layers | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18952399 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH FLEXIBLE LOGICAL TRACKS AND RADIUS-INDEPENDENT DATA RATE | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18757954 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH SMALL RECORDING GRAIN SIZES, HIGH ASPECT RATIO, AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18758385 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH NI-PT SEED LAYER | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18740053 | SERIAL INTERFACE COMPRISING DUAL CLOCK AND DATA I/O CELL | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18677096 | AUTOMATED SNAPSHOT MANAGEMENT FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICE ARRAYS | CHOI, YUK TING | 2164 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18666635 | OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF LUBRICANT WITH MODIFIED EPOXIDE-BASED LINKAGES | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18640346 | ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM GENERATION FOR DATABASES | COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 2165 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18603582 | LATERAL SUB-BLOCK MODE IN A MEMORY DEVICE | COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | 2827 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18436345 | ERASE BIAS SCHEME TO LOWER VERAMAX AND NAND CHIP-SIZE SHRINK | REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18426878 | TWO-WAY RECEPTACLE FOR UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS | LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18509035 | BONDING STRUCTURES FOR HIGH-DENSITY METAL-TO-METAL BONDING AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18509051 | BONDING STRUCTURES FOR HIGH-DENSITY METAL-TO-METAL BONDING AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | MEHTA, RATISHA | 2817 | Other | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18505292 | Optimizations For Payload Fetching In NVMe Commands | KIM, ELIAS YOUNG | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18499325 | CROSS-POINT OVONIC MEMORY DEVICE HAVING DIFFERENT SIZE ELECTRODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | ADROVEL, WILLIAM | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18477907 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING LATERALLY UNDULATING ISOLATION TRENCHES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | AHMED, SHAHED | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18372152 | METHOD FOR HANDLING EXTREME TEMPERATURES IN STORAGE DEVICES | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18471896 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH ISOLATION TRENCH FILL STRUCTURE HAVING LATERALLY-UNDULATING SIDEWALLS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 2893 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18466108 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD USING A DEPOSITION APPARATUS WITH A CONTOURED WAFER CARRIER RING | MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18462830 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING PROCESS USING STEAM FOR POLISHING FLUID DELIVERY AND AN APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | KAO, SOPHIA WEI-CHUN | 2817 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 07, 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 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18450095 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICES INCLUDING SELF-ALIGNED CHANNEL CAP STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | DUREN, TIMOTHY EDWARD | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | 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 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18447562 | GROUND REFERENCED BANDGAP CIRCUIT IN A NEGATIVELY BIASED SUBSTRATE CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18447723 | Access Control System and a Data Storage Device | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 2436 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18232642 | PRIORITY BASED THERMAL MANAGEMENT FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICE ENCLOSURES | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 2115 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18361575 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING OVERLYING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | YUSHINA, GALINA G | 2811 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18361118 | Semiconductor Device Package with Coupled Substrates | BRASFIELD, QUINTON A | 2814 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18361550 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING PERIPHERAL CIRCUIT WITH FIN AND PLANAR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18358768 | CROSS-POINT OVONIC FRUSTUM MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | ADROVEL, WILLIAM | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18358633 | HIGH VOLTAGE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS WITH DIFFERENT SIDEWALL SPACER CONFIGURATIONS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | VLCEK, JACOB ALEXANDER | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18357781 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING TRENCH SUPPORT BRIDGE STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | NEWTON, VALERIE N | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18355753 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF CAPACITY TO NAMESPACES IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE | HUARACHA, WILLY W | 2197 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18355064 | Multiple Neural Network Training Nodes in a Read Channel | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18354150 | Offloading Data Storage Device Processing Tasks to a Graphics Processing Unit | WU, BENJAMIN C | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18354174 | USING INTERNAL OPERATION FILES HAVING KNOWN PATTERNS ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES | ZECHER, CORDELIA P K | 2100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18222849 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING GLASS SUBSTRATES FOR USE IN MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18349560 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE HAVING CONTROLLED LATERAL ISOLATION TRENCH DEPTH AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 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 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18344227 | MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING ALUMINUM NITRIDE DIFFUSION BARRIER LAYER AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | 2812 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18343118 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING BACKSIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SOURCE STRUCTURE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | TRAN, THANH Y | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18343173 | REDUCING DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE SCHEMES | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 2121 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18325942 | SPIN TORQUE OSCILLATOR (STO) SENSORS USED IN NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING ARRAYS AND DETECTION SCHEMES FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | XU, XIAOYUN | 1797 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18308576 | Magnetic Read Sensors Having Reduced Signal Imbalance | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18161209 | Management of Storage Devices Utilizing Non-Fungible Tokens | WORKU, SARON MATTHEWOS | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17958185 | Control Table Set Management In Storage Devices | DARE, RYAN A | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17852301 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR WIRELESS DEVICE LOSS PREVENTION AND DISCOVERY | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 96d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
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