Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Dority & Manning, P.A. And Groq, Inc.

Technology area: Computing & Software

13 pending office actions • 1 client • 13 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Dority & Manning, P.A. and Groq, Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Computing & Software and 28426 career applications. The profile combines current prosecution activity with a broad application record in a field that may include computing architectures, software methods, and specialized processing systems.

The resolved allowance rate is 88.25%, and the average is 3.38 office actions per allowance. These measures provide historical context for the open docket and identify the examination activity associated with resolved allowances. For practitioners, the record supports review of both current workload and historical prosecution outcomes, while not predicting the disposition of a specific pending matter.

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

Quality Metrics (n=28426 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.2%
Allowance Rate
n=28426
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=28426
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=17513
-0.15σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=17513
1010 days
Time to Allowance
n=17513
+3.4pp
Interview Lift
n=28426
28.1%
RCE Rate
n=28426
2.8%
Appeal Rate
n=28426

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

70.8%
§101 Overcome
n=1492
77.5%
§102 Overcome
n=8516
77.4%
§103 Overcome
n=14036
78.3%
§112 Overcome
n=8032

Specialization & Scale

G06F, F05D, F01D
Top CPC Subclasses
8%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=28426
60
Practitioners
n=28426
473.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=28426

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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.

7
Hard (54%)
6
Medium (46%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (15%)
§103 only5 (38%)
§102 only1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
85% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TAN, RICHARD 1 79.6% +23.0%
GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE 1 73.9% +12.7%
REHMAN, MOHAMMED H 1 83.5% +18.5%
DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 1 84.0% +10.5%
SPANN, COURTNEY P 1 79.7% +22.8%
NGUYEN, PHIL K 1 82.5% +14.1%
XU, ZUJIA 1 68.1% +75.9%
AYERS, MICHAEL W 1 70.6% +51.6%
JIANG, HAIMEI 1 52.3% +31.7%
CHAN, DANNY 1 80.1% +25.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19058802 DETERMINISTIC NEAR-COMPUTE MEMORY FOR DETERMINISTIC PROCESSOR AND ENHANCED DATA MOVEMENT BETWEEN MEMORY UNITS AND PROCESSING UNITS DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY —
18670213 Chip-to-Chip Flit Rate Synchronization NGUYEN, PHIL K —
18498810 Clock Period Synthesis For Fine-grain Power Management CHAN, DANNY —

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19557565 ENERGY PROVISIONING TAN, RICHARD —
19071257 POWER MANAGEMENT IN DETERMINISTIC TENSOR STREAMING PROCESSORS REHMAN, MOHAMMED H —
18968692 PROCESSOR INSTRUCTION DISPATCH CONFIGURATION SPANN, COURTNEY P —
18689011 SCALE COMPUTING IN DETERMINISTIC CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS XU, ZUJIA —
18593543 PROACTIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A DETERMINISTIC PROCESSOR TO IMPROVE LATENCY, THROUGHPUT, AND RELIABILITY AYERS, MICHAEL W —
18519601 MULTI-PASS COMPRESSION OF UNCOMPRESSED DATA JIANG, HAIMEI —
17351044 Systems and Methods for Numerical Precision in Digital Multiplier Circuitry VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY —

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19557565 ENERGY PROVISIONING TAN, RICHARD —
19264468 METHOD TO MANAGE PERIODIC DRAM REFRESH AND MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING FOR PREDICTABLE DRAM DATA ACCESS GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE —
19071257 POWER MANAGEMENT IN DETERMINISTIC TENSOR STREAMING PROCESSORS REHMAN, MOHAMMED H —
19058802 DETERMINISTIC NEAR-COMPUTE MEMORY FOR DETERMINISTIC PROCESSOR AND ENHANCED DATA MOVEMENT BETWEEN MEMORY UNITS AND PROCESSING UNITS DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY —
18968692 PROCESSOR INSTRUCTION DISPATCH CONFIGURATION SPANN, COURTNEY P —
18670213 Chip-to-Chip Flit Rate Synchronization NGUYEN, PHIL K —
18689011 SCALE COMPUTING IN DETERMINISTIC CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS XU, ZUJIA —
18593543 PROACTIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A DETERMINISTIC PROCESSOR TO IMPROVE LATENCY, THROUGHPUT, AND RELIABILITY AYERS, MICHAEL W —

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Groq 13

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21762
21952
28361
21381
21841
21831
37621
21751
21241
24981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19557565 ENERGY PROVISIONING Groq, Inc. TAN, RICHARD 2836 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 05, 2026
19264468 METHOD TO MANAGE PERIODIC DRAM REFRESH AND MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING FOR PREDICTABLE DRAM DATA ACCESS Groq, Inc. GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE 2138 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jul 09, 2025
19071257 POWER MANAGEMENT IN DETERMINISTIC TENSOR STREAMING PROCESSORS Groq, Inc. REHMAN, MOHAMMED H 2176 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 05, 2025
19058802 DETERMINISTIC NEAR-COMPUTE MEMORY FOR DETERMINISTIC PROCESSOR AND ENHANCED DATA MOVEMENT BETWEEN MEMORY UNITS AND PROCESSING UNITS Groq, Inc. DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2184 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2025
18968692 PROCESSOR INSTRUCTION DISPATCH CONFIGURATION Groq, Inc. SPANN, COURTNEY P 2183 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18670213 Chip-to-Chip Flit Rate Synchronization Groq, Inc. NGUYEN, PHIL K 2176 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 21, 2024
18689011 SCALE COMPUTING IN DETERMINISTIC CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS Groq, Inc. XU, ZUJIA 2195 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18593543 PROACTIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A DETERMINISTIC PROCESSOR TO IMPROVE LATENCY, THROUGHPUT, AND RELIABILITY Groq, Inc. AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 01, 2024
18519601 MULTI-PASS COMPRESSION OF UNCOMPRESSED DATA Groq, Inc. JIANG, HAIMEI 3762 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2023
18498810 Clock Period Synthesis For Fine-grain Power Management Groq, Inc. CHAN, DANNY 2175 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18352784 METHODOLOGY TO GENERATE EFFICIENT MODELS AND ARCHITECTURES FOR DEEP LEARNING Groq, Inc. HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL 2124 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 14, 2023
18352602 PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE AND MODEL EXPLORATION SYSTEM FOR DEEP LEARNING Groq, Inc. KING, JOHN B 2498 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 14, 2023
17351044 Systems and Methods for Numerical Precision in Digital Multiplier Circuitry Groq, Inc. VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY 2151 §103§112Other Final Rejection — Pending Jun 17, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Dority & Manning, P.A. And Groq, Inc.'s patent allowance rate?

88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dority & Manning, P.A. And Groq, Inc. were allowed, across 28,426 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Dority & Manning, P.A. And Groq, Inc. average before allowance?

3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Dority & Manning, P.A. And Groq, Inc. have?

13 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 13 examiners in 11 art units.

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