Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
33 pending office actions • 21 art units • 33 examiners • 0 of 33 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 101 patents granted in the last 365 days
Winbond Electronics Corp. has 34 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 34 examiners across 22 art units, meaning examiner coverage is fully distributed while some art units receive multiple matters.
KIM, JUNG H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of examiner concentration places greater value on consistent technical records, amendment policies, and coordination across the art-unit groupings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 13 (39%) |
| §102 only | 3 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 14 (42%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (3%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JUNG H | 1 | 88.6% | +6.3% |
| MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 1 | 89.7% | +2.3% |
| AHMED, ENAM | 1 | 82.1% | +19.7% |
| LOONAN, ERIC T | 1 | 65.0% | +26.9% |
| VARNDELL, ROSS E | 1 | 84.7% | +13.2% |
| LUONG, DUY HAN | 1 | 95.1% | +7.7% |
| LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | 1 | 86.5% | +19.6% |
| WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | 1 | 75.6% | -3.6% |
| TRAN, BENJAMIN HOANG | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050059 | MEMORY DEVICE | AHMED, ENAM | — |
| 18890707 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485520 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | LEE, KYOUNG | 3d overdue |
| 18310693 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | WIEGAND, TYLER J | 5d |
| 17952657 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 55d |
| 19263525 | VOLTAGE LEVEL SHIFTER | KIM, JUNG H | — |
| 19067999 | BUILT-IN SELF-TEST DEVICE AND ERROR DETECTION METHOD | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | — |
| 19019543 | MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS | LOONAN, ERIC T | — |
| 19017788 | METHOD FOR DETECTING IMAGE BOUNDARY USING GAN MODEL, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIA, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 19000752 | DATA ALIGNMENT CIRCUIT OF MEMORY DEVICE | LUONG, DUY HAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050059 | MEMORY DEVICE | AHMED, ENAM | — |
| 19019543 | MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS | LOONAN, ERIC T | — |
| 19017788 | METHOD FOR DETECTING IMAGE BOUNDARY USING GAN MODEL, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIA, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 18890707 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 4 |
| 2812 | 4 |
| 2111 | 2 |
| 2825 | 2 |
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2811 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2112 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19263525 | VOLTAGE LEVEL SHIFTER | KIM, JUNG H | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19067999 | BUILT-IN SELF-TEST DEVICE AND ERROR DETECTION METHOD | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 2111 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19050059 | MEMORY DEVICE | AHMED, ENAM | 2112 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19019543 | MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS | LOONAN, ERIC T | 2137 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19017788 | METHOD FOR DETECTING IMAGE BOUNDARY USING GAN MODEL, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIA, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 2674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19000752 | DATA ALIGNMENT CIRCUIT OF MEMORY DEVICE | LUONG, DUY HAN | 2825 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18937039 | POLISHING PAD AND CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING APPARATUS | LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18890707 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18804312 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18768400 | FLASH MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | TRAN, BENJAMIN HOANG | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18657791 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | THROCKMORTON, ROBERT EMIL | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18658245 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | LI, MEIYA | 2811 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18632669 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PARENDO, KEVIN A | 2896 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18624127 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | ARROYO, TERESA M | 2893 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18621622 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | RODELA, EDUARDO A | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18620054 | PACKING STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | FAYETTE, NATHALIE RENEE | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18617979 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 2818 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18595877 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL DEVICE | KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C | 2111 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18435505 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING STACKED CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | YI, CHANGHYUN | 2812 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18424400 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | MANDALA, MICHELLE | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18410202 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SANDVIK, BENJAMIN P | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18410162 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | RAHMAN, ARIFUR | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18402040 | FLASH MEMORY AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | SOWARD, IDA M | 2898 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18399571 | MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND READING METHOD THEREOF | SMET, UYEN TRAN | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18485520 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | LEE, KYOUNG | 2817 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18458633 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FORMING THE SAME | NGUYEN, THANH T | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18454051 | AND TYPE FLASH MEMORY, PROGRAMMING METHOD AND ERASING METHOD | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2825 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18310693 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | WIEGAND, TYLER J | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 17952657 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17829015 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | NADAV, ORI | 2811 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17671551 | PLASMA DAMAGE PROTECTION DEVICE AND PLASMA DAMAGE PROTECTION METHOD | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
| 17580610 | MEMORY DEVICE HAVING PROCTECTIVE STRUCTURE SURROUNDING BIT-LINE CONTACT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BAUMAN, SCOTT E | 2815 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17227383 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D | 2814 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Apr 12, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialWinbond Electronics Corp. has 33 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 21 art units and 33 examiners.
Jung H Kim has the most, with 1 of Winbond Electronics Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
