Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Yangtze Memory Tech.)

23 pending office actions • 1 client • 23 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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%)
21
Medium (91%)
2
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (61%)
§102 only7 (30%)
§112 only2 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
19
Semiconductors
83% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LUONG, DUY HAN 1 93.1% +11.8%
DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 1 89.3% +5.1%
NGUYEN, VIET Q 1 95.0% +3.5%
ALSIP, MICHAEL 1 74.9% +5.4%
HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE 1 98.6% +2.4%
HOANG, HUAN 1 93.2% +5.6%
COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 1 92.9% +19.2%
CARDWELL, ERIC 1 87.8% +11.8%
LAPPAS, JASON 1 91.0% +8.1%
TALUKDAR, ARVIND 1 80.4% +3.9%

Quick Wins (9)

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
18442046 METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TALUKDAR, ARVIND 17d overdue
18797461 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING A MEMORY DEVICE NGUYEN, VIET Q 15d overdue
18791351 MANAGING WARMUP OPERATIONS IN A MEMORY DEVICE HOANG, HUAN 2d overdue
18777970 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING A MEMORY DEVICE CARDWELL, ERIC 2d overdue
18639928 Multi-Pass Programming in Memory Devices LAPPAS, JASON 2d overdue
18790567 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES IN MEMORY DEVICES COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 1d overdue
18791410 MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE 6d
18889258 MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE MEMORY DEVICES DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 13d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18777970 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING A MEMORY DEVICE CARDWELL, ERIC 2d overdue
18790567 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES IN MEMORY DEVICES COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 1d overdue
18892306 MEMORY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND MEMORY SYSTEM LUONG, DUY HAN 34d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Yangtze Memory 23

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28275
21322
21392
28172
28122
28972
28251
28981
28911
28241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18892306 MEMORY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND MEMORY SYSTEM Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. LUONG, DUY HAN 2825 §102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18889258 MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE MEMORY DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18797461 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING A MEMORY DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, VIET Q 2827 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2024
18790029 Data Migration in Memory Systems Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. ALSIP, MICHAEL 2139 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18791410 MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE 2827 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18791351 MANAGING WARMUP OPERATIONS IN A MEMORY DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. HOANG, HUAN 2827 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18790567 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES IN MEMORY DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 2827 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18777970 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING A MEMORY DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. CARDWELL, ERIC 2139 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18639928 Multi-Pass Programming in Memory Devices Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. LAPPAS, JASON 2827 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18442046 METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. TALUKDAR, ARVIND 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024
18389717 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, MEMORY SYSTEM Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. STARK, JARRETT J 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18518416 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 2891 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18518399 FABRICATING FILLING STRUCTURES IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTIVE DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. HO, ANTHONY 2817 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18491603 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND FORMATION METHOD THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. WIEGAND, TYLER J 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18488689 MANAGING VERTICAL STRUCTURES IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTIVE DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. DIALLO, MAMADOU L 2897 §102 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2023
18485084 MEMORY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, MEMORY SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 11, 2023
18477503 MANAGING VERTICAL STRUCTURES IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTIVE DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. HAN, JONATHAN 2818 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18477512 MANAGING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTIVE DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. KLEIN, JORDAN M 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18477521 MEMORY DEVICES HAVING VERTICAL TRANSISTORS IN PERIPHERAL CIRCUITS Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. DULKA, JOHN P 2817 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18459398 MANAGING CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS FOR SEMICONDUCTIVE DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. LUKE, DANIEL M 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2023
18233923 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE UTILIZING DUMMY MEMORY BLOCKS TO MITIGATE DEFECTS Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. SALERNO, SARAH KATE 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18296222 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18296182 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICES Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. VU, HUNG K 2897 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 05, 2023

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