Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dorsey & Whitney Llp-Ip Dept.-Mti

19 pending office actions • 1 client • 17 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 85 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
3
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
17
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (53%)
§102 only7 (37%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
26% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
13
Semiconductors
68% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YOHA, CONNIE C 2 93.7% +0.2%
KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2 84.6% +8.2%
ROJAS, MIDYS 1 87.5% +8.0%
HOANG, HUAN 1 93.2% +5.6%
YANG, HAN 1 92.1% +11.7%
TRAN, ANTHAN 1 82.9% +2.3%
LUU, PHO M 1 96.9% +3.3%
NGUYEN, VAN THU T 1 82.7% +6.6%
ABRAHAM, ESAW T 1 94.1% +3.2%
BEGUM, SULTANA 1 93.3% +0.4%

Quick Wins (11)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18588373 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SELECTABLE EXPANSION OF ERROR CORRECTION CAPABILITY KNAPP, JUSTIN R 46d overdue
18642326 CONCURRENT COMPENSATION IN A MEMORY SYSTEM YOHA, CONNIE C 16d overdue
18745894 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR HALF-PAGE MODES OF MEMORY DEVICES NGUYEN, VAN THU T 5d overdue
18774032 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REDUCED POWER COMMAND SHIFTER TRAN, ANTHAN 2d overdue
18635364 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING REFRESH OPERATION BEGUM, SULTANA 5d
18776897 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTIVE COUPLING OF BIT LINES USING BIT LINE SWITCHES YANG, HAN 6d
18756919 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ROW HAMMER COUNTER INITIALIZATION LUU, PHO M 6d
18738499 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ECC PARITY BIT REDUCTION ABRAHAM, ESAW T 14d

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18776897 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTIVE COUPLING OF BIT LINES USING BIT LINE SWITCHES YANG, HAN 6d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Micron 19

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28244
28253
21123
21331
28271
28121
28971
28991
28961
21811

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19016559 MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS WHICH MAY FACILITATE TENSOR MEMORY ACCESS Micron Technology, Inc. ROJAS, MIDYS 2133 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jan 10, 2025
18793311 LOW POWER CLOCK INJECTION DURING IDLE MODE OPERATIONS Micron Technology, Inc. HOANG, HUAN 2827 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18776897 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTIVE COUPLING OF BIT LINES USING BIT LINE SWITCHES Micron Technology, Inc. YANG, HAN 2824 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18774032 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REDUCED POWER COMMAND SHIFTER Micron Technology, Inc. TRAN, ANTHAN 2825 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18756919 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ROW HAMMER COUNTER INITIALIZATION Micron Technology, Inc. LUU, PHO M 2824 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18746447 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SINGLE AND MULTI MEMORY CELL ARCHITECTURES Micron Technology, Inc. YOHA, CONNIE C 2825 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18745894 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR HALF-PAGE MODES OF MEMORY DEVICES Micron Technology, Inc. NGUYEN, VAN THU T 2824 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18738499 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ECC PARITY BIT REDUCTION Micron Technology, Inc. ABRAHAM, ESAW T 2112 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18642326 CONCURRENT COMPENSATION IN A MEMORY SYSTEM Micron Technology, Inc. YOHA, CONNIE C 2825 §102 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2024
18635364 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING REFRESH OPERATION Micron Technology, Inc. BEGUM, SULTANA 2824 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18588373 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SELECTABLE EXPANSION OF ERROR CORRECTION CAPABILITY Micron Technology, Inc. KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2112 §112 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18588402 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR READ COMMANDS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ECC CAPABILITY Micron Technology, Inc. KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2112 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18536026 APPARATUSES INCLUDING SHALLOW TRENCH ISOLATION AND METHODS FOR FORMING SAME Micron Technology, Inc. YI, CHANGHYUN 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18521490 APPARATUS AND INTERNAL VOLTAGE GENERATING CIRCUIT INCLUDING VOLTAGE DIVIDING CIRCUIT Micron Technology, Inc. ALAM, MOHAMMED R 2897 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18481133 ALIGNMENT PATTERN HAVING AN E SHAPE Micron Technology, Inc. YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18461086 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING HYDROGEN INTRODUCTION LAYER PROVIDED ON SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Micron Technology, Inc. AHMADI, MOHSEN 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18170753 MEMORY SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES OF CALCULATING HAMMING DISTANCES FOR NEURAL NETWORK AND DATA CENTER APPLICATIONS Micron Technology, Inc. UNELUS, ERNEST 2181 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 17, 2023
17859045 VEHICLE COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION SYSTEMS FOR ROAD SAFETY Micron Technology, Inc. KHALED, ABDALLA A 3667 §103 Final Rejection 379d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17833749 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Micron Technology, Inc. ENAD, CHRISTINE A 2811 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jun 06, 2022

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