Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hg Law LLP (Sk Hynix)

8 pending office actions • 2 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 1 of 8 (12%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

1
Hard (12%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
62% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
38% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIN, ERICA S Y 1 85.9% +2.3%
SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 1 70.0% +50.0%
HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN 1 54.8% +24.3%
YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 1 81.1% -2.9%
CHAN, TRACY C 1 78.8% -0.3%
SAIN, GAUTAM 1 67.0% +24.4%
PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A 1 70.5% -4.0%
SAVENKOV, VADIM 1 61.7% +20.6%

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
18239428 THERMAL-MECHANICAL TESTING DEVICE FOR PLATFORM INTEGRATION LIN, ERICA S Y 9d
17848224 THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES WITH GAS SPACER YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 29d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17165698 FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION OF STORAGE DEVICE WITH TRANSLATION LANGUAGE SET PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A 55d

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
18089870 PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS OVER FABRIC NETWORKS HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN 125d overdue
17313668 DEVICE-INITIATED INPUT/OUTPUT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON DISK-CACHED AND TIERED SYSTEMS SAIN, GAUTAM 1d overdue
16420624 TECHNIQUES FOR DATA STORAGE PROTECTION AND INTEGRITY CHECKING SAVENKOV, VADIM 5d
18237059 THERMAL SPREADER SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 21d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
SK Group 7
Intel 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28531
28121
24651
28991
21381
21351
21321
24321

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18239428 THERMAL-MECHANICAL TESTING DEVICE FOR PLATFORM INTEGRATION SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) LIN, ERICA S Y 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18237059 THERMAL SPREADER SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18089870 PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS OVER FABRIC NETWORKS SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN 2465 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
17848224 THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES WITH GAS SPACER SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 2899 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 23, 2022
17559870 CACHE EVICTIONS MANAGEMENT IN A TWO LEVEL MEMORY CONTROLLER MODE SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) CHAN, TRACY C 2138 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2021
17313668 DEVICE-INITIATED INPUT/OUTPUT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON DISK-CACHED AND TIERED SYSTEMS SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) SAIN, GAUTAM 2135 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending May 06, 2021
17165698 FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION OF STORAGE DEVICE WITH TRANSLATION LANGUAGE SET Intel Corporation PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A 2132 §103§112 Final Rejection 55d AI Ready Feb 02, 2021
16420624 TECHNIQUES FOR DATA STORAGE PROTECTION AND INTEGRITY CHECKING SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. (Dba Solidigm) SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending May 23, 2019

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