Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SAIN, GAUTAM

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2135 2185

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Analysis

Gautam Sain is a patent examiner in Tech Center 2100, assigned to Art Unit 2135. He has 439 resolved cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 67.4% for these 439 cases. This 67.4% figure represents the frequency of grants among all resolved cases for this examiner.

The interview lift for Gautam Sain is 21.4%. This 21.4% lift indicates the change in the probability of allowance when an interview is conducted during prosecution. Practitioners can use this lift to evaluate the potential impact of oral advocacy on their specific applications in Art Unit 2135.

The median days to allowance is 1205. This 1205 day period measures the time from the filing of an application to the issuance of a patent. This median provides a data point for estimating the duration of the examination process for matters assigned to this examiner.

Practitioners should consider the 67.4% allowance rate and the 21.4% interview lift when developing their response strategies. These figures, along with the 1205 day median, offer a statistical overview of the examiner's history in Tech Center 2100.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

67.6%
Allow Rate
+12.6% vs TC avg
467
Total Applications
+20.6%
Interview Lift
1204
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 441 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

6.9%
§101 Eligibility
1.6%
§102 Novelty
67.2%
§103 Obviousness
22.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19285021 NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND STORAGE DEVICE Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
19265162 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD PERFORMED BY THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18931330 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING TERABYTES WRITTEN (TBW) OF A NAND BASED STORAGE DEVICE Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18793347 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING AND ARBITRATION QOS IMPROVEMENT BY EARLY FEEDBACK Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18428332 COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF OPERATION OF COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE SYSTEMS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18623242 EXPLOITING VIRTUAL ADDRESS (VA) SPATIAL LOCALITY USING TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER (TLB) ENTRY COMPRESSION IN PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICES Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17987687 MULTIPLEXED RANKS (MR) WITH PSEUDO BURST LENGTH 32 (BL32) Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17133624 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR FINE GRAINED LOW LATENCY DECOMPRESSION WITHIN PROCESSOR CORE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17705051 INTERFACE FOR DIFFERENT INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MEMORY IO PATHS Final Rejection Intel NDTM US LLC
18813522 MRAM Non-Final OA AISIN CORPORATION
18672755 REMAPPING TECHNIQUES FOR NAND STORAGE Non-Final OA Lodestar Licensing Group, LLC
18325836 MEMORY CORE AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH TRANSPOSED MATRIX CALCULATION FUNCTION INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
17313668 DEVICE-INITIATED INPUT/OUTPUT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON DISK-CACHED AND TIERED SYSTEMS Non-Final OA SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (dba Solidigm)
19045630 SOFTWARE SHARING ACROSS MULTIPLE CORES Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18605518 DIRECT CONNECT BETWEEN NETWORK INTERFACE AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT IN SELF-HOSTED MODE IN A MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
19184564 TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS FOR EMULATING INCOHERENT MEMORY Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18677578 RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENTS USING MEMORY DIE BINNING Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18665240 Methods and Systems for Processing-in-Memory Scope Release Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18219842 MEMORY COMPRESSION Final Rejection Rambus Inc.

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