Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Buchalter - Maxlinear, Inc.

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security

27 pending office actions • 1 client • 27 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

BUCHALTER - MAXLINEAR, INC. specializes in the Networking & Security technology area. The firm has managed 2732 career applications. There are 27 pending office actions currently being prosecuted by the firm.

The firm's resolved allowance rate is 89.46 percent. This is achieved with an average of 3.47 office actions per allowance. This average suggests a prosecution process that involves several rounds of communication with the USPTO to secure patent rights. The 89.46 percent allowance rate indicates a strong track record of success across the firm's portfolio. With 27 pending actions, the firm remains active in these fields. Practitioners can view the 3.47 average as a baseline for the effort required to achieve an allowance in the networking and security sector. The 2732 career applications provide the historical data supporting these success metrics.

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

Quality Metrics (n=2732 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.5%
Allowance Rate
n=2732
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2732
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=1511
-0.09σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1511
903 days
Time to Allowance
n=1511
+8.3pp
Interview Lift
n=2732
30.6%
RCE Rate
n=2732
1.6%
Appeal Rate
n=2732

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

69.9%
§101 Overcome
n=226
75.6%
§102 Overcome
n=706
77.5%
§103 Overcome
n=1061
79.6%
§112 Overcome
n=651

Specialization & Scale

H04L, H04W, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
18%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2732
11
Practitioners
n=2732
248.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=2732

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

13
Hard (48%)
14
Medium (52%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (7%)
§103 only12 (44%)
§102 only2 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (41%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
12
Information Tech
44% of docket
3
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
10
Business / Other
37% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VO, TIM T 1 57.3% +24.2%
DEPPE, BETSY LEE 1 84.6% +9.1%
JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN 1 — —
GBLENDE, JEFFREY A 1 85.7% +8.7%
MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M 1 73.1% +28.7%
LEE, JAI M 1 77.2% +11.2%
SANDHU, AMRITBIR K 1 83.0% +10.8%
DELA ROSA-FRIO, JACOB ETHAN 1 — —
ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H 1 89.0% -0.7%
LI, SHI K 1 73.3% +4.2%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19056541 CURRENT INFORMATION SHARING OF CONSTANT-ON-TIME POINT-OF-LOAD CONVERTERS GBLENDE, JEFFREY A —
18936951 OPTICAL NETWORK POWER CONSUMPTION MITIGATION SANDHU, AMRITBIR K —

Hard Cases (13)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18506949 SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO (SINR)-AWARE SPATIAL REUSE DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA 46d overdue
18621031 WIRELESS MESH NETWORK OPTIMIZATION AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE 5d
18348278 DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATION USING INPUT/OUTPUT VIRTUALIZATION RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 15d
19216597 SWITCHING SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP VO, TIM T —
19080739 LINK TRAINING FOR BOOKENDED LINKS DEPPE, BETSY LEE —
19000633 HASHING FOR DEDUPLICATION THROUGH SKIPPING SELECTED DATA MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M —
18924902 MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME (MCS) FOR MIXED CRITICALITY PHYSICAL LAYER PROTOCOL DATA UNIT (PPDU) ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H —
18851678 PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE PARAMETER MEASUREMENT AND ONLINE RECONFIGURATION LI, SHI K —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19216597 SWITCHING SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP VO, TIM T —
19000633 HASHING FOR DEDUPLICATION THROUGH SKIPPING SELECTED DATA MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M —
18961424 OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT ACTIVATION AND LOW LATENCY TRANSMISSIONS IN DELAY SENSITIVE NETWORKS LEE, JAI M —
18936951 OPTICAL NETWORK POWER CONSUMPTION MITIGATION SANDHU, AMRITBIR K —

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
MAXLINEAR, INC. 27

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36482
21661
21121
21691
26431
26331
24781
24151
21521
21761

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19216597 SWITCHING SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP MaxLinear, Inc. VO, TIM T §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2025
19080739 LINK TRAINING FOR BOOKENDED LINKS MaxLinear, Inc. DEPPE, BETSY LEE §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2025
19075739 WIRELESS UNEQUAL MODULATION MaxLinear, Inc. JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 10, 2025
19056541 CURRENT INFORMATION SHARING OF CONSTANT-ON-TIME POINT-OF-LOAD CONVERTERS MaxLinear, Inc. GBLENDE, JEFFREY A §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 18, 2025
19000633 HASHING FOR DEDUPLICATION THROUGH SKIPPING SELECTED DATA MaxLinear, Inc. MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M 2166 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 23, 2024
18961424 OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT ACTIVATION AND LOW LATENCY TRANSMISSIONS IN DELAY SENSITIVE NETWORKS MaxLinear, Inc. LEE, JAI M §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18936951 OPTICAL NETWORK POWER CONSUMPTION MITIGATION MaxLinear, Inc. SANDHU, AMRITBIR K §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18929528 PHOTOCURRENT SENSING FOR FEEDBACK CONTROL MaxLinear, Inc. DELA ROSA-FRIO, JACOB ETHAN §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18924902 MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME (MCS) FOR MIXED CRITICALITY PHYSICAL LAYER PROTOCOL DATA UNIT (PPDU) MaxLinear, Inc. ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18851678 PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE PARAMETER MEASUREMENT AND ONLINE RECONFIGURATION MaxLinear, Inc. LI, SHI K §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18762573 DEVICE WITH MULTI-CHANNEL BONDING MaxLinear, Inc. ALSHACK, OSMAN M 2112 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18752682 MULTI-LINK OPERATION ADAPTATION MaxLinear, Inc. WEI, SIREN §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 24, 2024
18676201 HASHING A DATA SET WITH MULTIPLE HASH ENGINES MaxLinear, Inc. RICHARDSON, JAMES E 2169 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 28, 2024
18621031 WIRELESS MESH NETWORK OPTIMIZATION MaxLinear, Inc. AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE 3648 §101§103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18621022 WIRELESS STATION ZONING MaxLinear, Inc. IQBAL, KHAWAR 2643 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 28, 2024
18621010 WIRELESS STATION ZONING MaxLinear, Inc. MURILLO GARCIA, FABRICIO R 2633 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 28, 2024
18613098 LOW LATENCY MULTI-LINK DEVICE (MLD) PHY/MAC RELAY (LLMR) MaxLinear, Inc. ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 2478 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18608840 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MaxLinear, Inc. WONG, XAVIER S 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18596556 DATA TRANSFORM OPERATIONS IN A DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATOR MaxLinear, Inc. MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18427692 SYSTEM COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE OVER PCIe (PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS) LINK MaxLinear, Inc. PATEL, NIMESH G 2176 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18506949 SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO (SINR)-AWARE SPATIAL REUSE MaxLinear, Inc. DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA 2641 §102§103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18484428 HARDWARE DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE MaxLinear, Inc. FOLLANSBEE, JOHN A 2441 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 10, 2023
18348278 DATA TRANSFORM ACCELERATION USING INPUT/OUTPUT VIRTUALIZATION MaxLinear, Inc. RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jul 06, 2023
18333442 ACCESS POINT (AP) INTERFERENCE REDUCTION MaxLinear, Inc. GHOWRWAL, OMAR J 2463 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 12, 2023
18162606 GAIN CONTROL IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED RADAR SYSTEM MaxLinear, Inc. WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 3648 §103 Final Rejection 162d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18056172 MULTICAST COMMUNICATION IMPROVEMENTS MaxLinear, Inc. ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y 2455 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 16, 2022
14207695 Flow control between processing devices MaxLinear, Inc. YEUNG, MANG HANG 2417 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2014

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