Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
698 pending office actions • 30 clients • 600 examiners • 204 art units • 1 of 698 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Harrity & Harrity, LLP operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm has managed 19453 career applications and currently has 499 pending office actions. This volume of 19453 career applications reflects the firm's historical activity level within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The 499 pending office actions represent the firm's current workload for pending matters.
The firm reports a resolved allowance rate pct of 95.67. Prosecution of these matters involves an avg office actions per allowance of 3.31. These figures provide a statistical overview of the firm's results. Practitioners can use the 95.67 resolved allowance rate pct and the 3.31 avg office actions per allowance to understand the typical progression of a patent application through the examination process at this firm. The 3.31 avg office actions per allowance indicates the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach the 95.67 resolved allowance rate pct.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 179 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 179 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 36 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 153 (22%) |
| §103 only | 223 (32%) |
| §102 only | 31 (4%) |
| §112 only | 17 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 13 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 8 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 215 (31%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (0%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 4 | 39.6% | +30.8% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 4 | 38.7% | +24.5% |
| CHEN, YU | 3 | 67.8% | +29.7% |
| DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 3 | 50.0% | +75.0% |
| WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 3 | 70.9% | +11.9% |
| SEHAR, FAKEHA | 3 | 82.7% | +19.3% |
| MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE | 3 | 94.9% | +3.9% |
| XIA, XUYANG | 3 | 72.6% | +52.3% |
| ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | 3 | 85.1% | +17.9% |
| HAN, KYU HYUNG | 3 | 43.8% | +36.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17663108 | PASSIVATION FOR A DEEP TRENCH ISOLATION STRUCTURE IN A PIXEL SENSOR | SEHAR, FAKEHA | 78d overdue |
| 18307034 | MRAM WITH ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURE | MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441540 | System And Method For Displaying An Image | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 52d overdue |
| 17260943 | INTERNAL LASER LIGHT DELIVERY FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC-GUIDED DRILLING | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 52d overdue |
| 18644879 | METHOD OF FORMING A REINFORCED PANEL COMPONENT AND A RELATED APPARATUS | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 51d overdue |
| 17812840 | AUTOMATED DATA QUALITY MONITORING AND DATA GOVERNANCE USING STATISTICAL MODELS | ALHIJA, SAIF A | 50d overdue |
| 17936101 | SYLLABLE-BASED TEXT CONVERSION FOR PRONUNCIATION HELP | CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | 49d overdue |
| 15707387 | Gated Image Acquisition And Patient Model Construction | SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M | 46d overdue |
| 16692907 | ASSET ADDITION SCHEDULING FOR A KNOWLEDGE BASE | BLACK, LINH | 43d overdue |
| 17984778 | Exploratory Orchestration of Mixed Methodology Incident Remediation Workflows | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 42d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17663108 | PASSIVATION FOR A DEEP TRENCH ISOLATION STRUCTURE IN A PIXEL SENSOR | SEHAR, FAKEHA | 78d overdue |
| 18067296 | VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER WITH ENHANCED MODULATION BANDWIDTH | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 10d overdue |
| 18194242 | MULTICORE FIBER LASER WITH INTEGRATED HIGH-BRIGHTNESS SIGNAL COMBINER | HAGAN, SEAN P | 3d overdue |
| 18301098 | RIDGE-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL DEVICE | HAGAN, SEAN P | 14d |
| 18311504 | TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ON PRIVATE DATA IN UNTRUSTED ENVIRONMENT USING ANONYMIZED DATA AND ENCRYPTED DATA | XIA, XUYANG | 16d |
| 17664103 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR RECOMMENDING INTERACTION PARTIES | HAN, KYU HYUNG | 33d |
| 18471408 | SELF-ALIGNED CONTACT FOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS | CHEN, YU | 34d |
| 18091968 | BACKSIDE-CONNECTING VIA WITH NANOSHEET SPACERS FOR TRANSISTORS | WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 35d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| IBM | 327 |
| Capital One | 87 |
| TSMC | 74 |
| Lumentum | 45 |
| THE BOEING COMPANY | 26 |
| Infineon | 25 |
| Micron | 22 |
| 3M | 19 |
| Juniper Networks | 13 |
| Viavi | 12 |
| MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC. | 10 |
| Plaid Inc. | 7 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | 6 |
| Johns Hopkins | 5 |
| Boeing | 3 |
| ams-OSRAM | 2 |
| Cloud Light Technology | 2 |
| International Business Machines Corporatiion | 1 |
| Micro Technology, Inc. | 1 |
| Dell | 1 |
| Infineon Technology AG | 1 |
| Ford | 1 |
| Siemens | 1 |
| Capital Services, LLC | 1 |
| Tokyo Electron | 1 |
| NeoPhotonics Corporation | 1 |
| Micron Technolgy, Inc. | 1 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Compant, Ltd. | 1 |
| MIT | 1 |
| WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 17 |
| 2893 | 16 |
| 2828 | 16 |
| 2898 | 15 |
| 2899 | 12 |
| 2874 | 10 |
| 2817 | 9 |
| 2659 | 8 |
| 2896 | 8 |
| 2199 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19379993 | Automated Intelligent Actionable Edit System Using Machine Learning | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 3684 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19367922 | PATTERN IDENTIFICATION IN STRUCTURED EVENT DATA | Plaid Inc. | PYO, MONICA M | 2161 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19315138 | DETECTING RELIABILITY ACROSS THE INTERNET AFTER SCRAPING | Capital One Services, LLC | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 3629 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19304782 | COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION USING A COMMUNICATION ALLOCATION BASED ON ITERATIVE PROCESSING | Capital One Services, Llc. | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 | |
| 19290528 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING TOOL AND METHODS OF OPERATION | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 | |
| 19287275 | DATA LINEAGE METRIC BASED DATA PROCESSING | Capital One Services, LLC | UDDIN, MOHAMMED R | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 | |
| 19286066 | REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND MONITORING FOR ABLATION THERAPY | The Johns Hopkins University | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 | |
| 19282055 | CAUSING A ROBOT TO EXECUTE A MISSION USING A BEHAVIOR TREE AND A LEAF NODE LIBRARY | Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 | |
| 19275689 | SEGMENTATION AND ENGAGEMENT BASED MESSAGING | Capital One Services, LLC | MAHMUD, GOLAM | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 | |
| 19261618 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA PARSING | Plaid Inc. | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19249172 | TRANSFORMING DATA INTO DATA ENTITIES | Capital One Services, LLC | LY, CHEYNE D | 2161 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19244705 | METHOD OF FORMING A COMPOSITE PREFORM | The Boeing Company | SULTANA, NAHIDA | 1743 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19241928 | LINKING PHYSICAL LOCATIONS AND ONLINE CHANNELS IN A DATABASE | Capital One Services, LLC | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 | |
| 19234007 | System and Computer-Implemented Method For Generating Clinical Notes | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3686 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19232122 | UTILIZING CARD MOVEMENT DATA TO IDENTIFY FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS | Capital One Services, LLC | SMITH, SLADE E | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 | |
| 19223356 | AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF REPAIR BASED ON SENSOR DATA | The Boeing Company | SMITH, JORDAN T | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 | |
| 19219053 | HOST CONFIGURED PERFORMANCE LIMITS | Micron Technology, Inc. | KWONG, EDMUND H | 2137 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19211749 | CHEMICAL DISPENSING SYSTEM | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | GARDNER, NICOLE | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 | |
| 19205517 | ENABLING A FUNCTION OF AN APPLICATION BASED ON A CHARACTERISTIC OF A USER DEVICE | Capital One Services, LLC | NGUY, CHI D | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 | |
| 19205011 | CLASSIFICATION AND MITIGATION OF COMPUTE EXPRESS LINK SECURITY THREATS | Micron Technology, Inc. | VU, TAYLOR P | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 | |
| 19203554 | REMOTE CREATION OF VIRTUAL CREDENTIAL BOUND TO PHYSICAL LOCATION | Capital One Services, LLC | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 | |
| 19200187 | POWER SYSTEM CONTROLLER FAILSAFE CYCLING PROTECTION | The Boeing Company | SMITH, JORDAN T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 | |
| 19195889 | PROVIDING BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL DETERMINISTIC PATH FORWARDING | Juniper Networks, Inc. | SISON, JUNE Y | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 | |
| 19125763 | REGISTRATION AND NAVIGATION IN CRANIAL PROCEDURES | Medtronic Navigation, Inc. | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| 19188360 | ITERATIVE AUDIO AI VALIDATION AND ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM | International Business Machines Corporation | AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | 2657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19184354 | OFFLOADING A SIGNING OPERATION ON A USER DEVICE | Capital One Services, LLC | WALKER, MICHAEL JARED | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 | |
| 19184564 | TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS FOR EMULATING INCOHERENT MEMORY | Micron Technology, Inc. | SAIN, GAUTAM | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 | |
| 19174285 | NEUROMODULATION BASED NERVE IDENTIFICATION | The Johns Hopkins University | MATTSON, SEAN D | 3798 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19170778 | COMMAND ADDRESS PARITY CHECK USING REPURPOSING | Micron Technology, Inc. | TANG, RONG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 | |
| 19118362 | DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER, CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT, DISCRIMINATOR AND PHOTON COUNTING SYSTEM | AMS-OSRAM AG | JEANGLAUDE, JEAN BRUNER | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19170661 | COMMUNICATING MANAGEMENT MESSAGES ENCAPSULATED IN DATA OBJECT EXCHANGE DATA OBJECTS | Micron Technology, Inc. | WONG, TITUS | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 | |
| 19089582 | System And Method For Determining Structured Data | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 3684 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19115140 | DENTAL APPLIANCE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19087837 | NAVIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATION | Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| 19088185 | PREVENTING DUPLICATIVE FILE PROCESSING | Capital One Services, LLC | WANG, LIANG CHE A | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| 19086244 | TOKENIZING AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION | Capital One Services, LLC | POLTORAK, PIOTR | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19082774 | LOAD BALANCING OF ASSISTED REPLICATION NETWORK DEVICES | Juniper Networks, Inc. | NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| 19081696 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACKING MOVEMENT OF OBJECTS | The Boeing Company | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | 3669 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19072164 | PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER TO FACILITATE NETWORK TRAFFIC ANALYSIS | VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. | DOAN, DUYEN MY | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 | |
| 19066345 | GENERATIVE AI-BASED QUESTIONNAIRE AND TRANSCRIPT GENERATION FOR VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS | International Business Machines Corporation | VU, KHOA | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19063579 | MULTI-LEVEL ACCESS COUNTERS FOR A MEMORY DEVICE | Micron Technology, Inc. | ALSIP, MICHAEL | 2139 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19063945 | PIEZO-ACTUATED PLATFORMS FOR IMAGE SENSOR STABILIZATION | Infineon Technologies AG | NGUYEN, CHAN T H | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19062867 | GRAPHICAL ELEMENT MANAGEMENT | Capital One Services, LLC | LEE, SARAH YEO | 2616 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062569 | DETECTING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) DRIFT USING FOCUSED-LANGUAGE EXPANSION | International Business Machines Corporation | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062777 | HARDWARE APPARATUS WITH A SELF-RECALIBRATION MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SELF-RECALIBRATION IN A HARDWARE APPARATUS | Infineon Technologies AG | SCHNURR, JOHN R | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| 19061533 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN COMPETITION TO SELECT AN OPTIMAL RESPONSE TO A PROMPT | International Business Machines Corporation | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19056851 | MULTIPLE SEMICONDUCTOR DIE CONTAINER LOAD PORT | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MCCLAIN, GERALD | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| 19050584 | AUTHENTICATING A USER IN LIVENESS TESTING USING A TRUSTED CAMERA | Capital One Services, LLC | SU, SARAH | 2431 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19049067 | UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING AND A SMART TRANSACTION CARD TO AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFY OPTIMAL PRICES AND REBATES FOR ITEMS DURING IN-PERSON SHOPPING | Capital One Services, LLC | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 | |
| 19042437 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH FAST WRITE MODE TO MITIGATE POWER LOSS | Micron Technology, Inc. | HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial95.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Harrity & Harrity, LLP were allowed, across 19,453 applications in USPTO records.
3.31 office actions per allowed application on average.
698 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 30 clients, before 600 examiners in 204 art units.