Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hogan Lovells US LLP - Nvidia

49 pending office actions • 2 clients • 47 examiners • 39 art units • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 72 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

49
Total Pending OAs
24
Non-Final OAs
25
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 49 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

23
Overdue
2
Due this week
13
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 49 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (23)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (6)

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%)
46
Medium (94%)
3
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only44 (90%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only2 (4%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
21
Information Tech
43% of docket
23
Communications
47% of docket
2
Semiconductors
4% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
6% 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.

490 h
Manual time on pending OAs
98 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
172 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2 82.0% +10.6%
PATEL, SHREYANS A 2 88.9% +7.7%
LIN, KATHERINE Y 1 91.2% +7.0%
CHOUDHURY, ZAHID 1 85.5% +8.7%
FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 1 77.4% +11.7%
SINHA, SNIGDHA 1 50.0% +58.3%
BROWN, SHEREE N 1 65.2% +26.7%
DALENCOURT, YVES 1 84.3% -5.7%
KHAN, ATTA 1 83.7% +25.3%
SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 1 83.5% +10.7%

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
18502747 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR SIMILARITY DETERMINATIONS IN CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 72d overdue
18669811 TRACK SELECTION IN ENVIRONMENT RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 56d overdue
18800514 UNIVERSAL BOOT INTERFACE CHOUDHURY, ZAHID 16d overdue
18778392 ACCESS CONTROL FOR SHARED RESOURCES DALENCOURT, YVES 10d overdue
18449969 UNSUPERVISED ALIGNMENT FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING NEURAL NETWORKS PATEL, SHREYANS A 4d overdue
18365966 USING LANGUAGE MODELS IN AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 4d overdue
19005657 EFFICIENT DATA TRANSMISSIONS BETWEEN STORAGE NODES IN REPLICATION RELATIONSHIPS LIN, KATHERINE Y 3d overdue
18457221 UNSUPERVISED ALIGNMENT FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING NEURAL NETWORKS PATEL, SHREYANS A 55d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18502747 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR SIMILARITY DETERMINATIONS IN CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 72d overdue
18669811 TRACK SELECTION IN ENVIRONMENT RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 56d overdue
18787408 SUB-IMAGE STREAMING AND PROCESSING BROWN, SHEREE N 10d overdue
18365966 USING LANGUAGE MODELS IN AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 4d overdue
18790911 REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION CENSORSHIP USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS SINHA, SNIGDHA 9d
18798466 FRAME SELECTION FOR STREAMING APPLICATIONS FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 28d
18756798 PLATFORM RESILIENCY AUTHORITY KHAN, ATTA 62d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
NVIDIA 41
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. 8

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26114
26583
26593
24822
26562
26622
21131
21751
26191
26121

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19005657 EFFICIENT DATA TRANSMISSIONS BETWEEN STORAGE NODES IN REPLICATION RELATIONSHIPS Nvidia Corporation LIN, KATHERINE Y 2113 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2024
18800514 UNIVERSAL BOOT INTERFACE Nvidia Corporation CHOUDHURY, ZAHID 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2024
18798466 FRAME SELECTION FOR STREAMING APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 2482 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18790911 REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION CENSORSHIP USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation SINHA, SNIGDHA 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18787408 SUB-IMAGE STREAMING AND PROCESSING Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. BROWN, SHEREE N 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18778392 ACCESS CONTROL FOR SHARED RESOURCES Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. DALENCOURT, YVES 2457 §102 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18756798 PLATFORM RESILIENCY AUTHORITY Nvidia Corporation KHAN, ATTA 2449 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18669811 TRACK SELECTION IN ENVIRONMENT RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending May 21, 2024
18669877 DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING USER INTERFACES FOR ENHANCED INTERACTION IN DIGITAL APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation RIEGLER, PATRICK F 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending May 21, 2024
18667724 USER CONTENT SENTIMENT ANALYSIS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Nvidia Corporation RUSS, COREY V 3629 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 17, 2024
18646048 DETERMINING LIGHTING AND COMPOSITION PARAMETERS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION Nvidia Corporation AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN 2611 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Apr 25, 2024
18638254 NETWORK PACKET PROCESSING FLOW TESTS Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. HACKENBERG, RACHEL J 2454 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18598777 SALIENCY-GUIDED PACKET LOSS MITIGATION FOR CONTENT STREAMING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18595880 LANDMARK MATCHING IN ENVIRONMENT RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation XIAO, DI 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18587491 GENRE CLASSIFICATION FOR VIDEO COMPRESSION Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J 2482 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18441261 MULTI-MATERIAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL THERMAL CONDUCTIVE TRACES Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. VARGHESE, ROSHN K 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18435131 ACTIVELY INFLUENCING A STATE OF A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE Nvidia Corporation VOORHEES, CATHERINE M 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18417105 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO UPDATE DATA IN MAPPING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation CHAWAN, VIJAY B 2658 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18412228 REAL-TIME RENDERING WITH IMPLICIT SHAPES Nvidia Corporation DU, HAIXIA 2611 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18527994 KERNEL COEFFICIENT QUANTIZATION Nvidia Corporation ABAD, FARLEY J 2181 §112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18514526 DEPTH BASED IMAGE SHARPENING Nvidia Corporation ALLISON, ANDRAE S 2673 DP Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18507659 NON-UNIFORM ALLOCATION OF SYMMETRIC MEMORY IN PARALLEL PROGRAMS Nvidia Corporation WU, STEPHANIE 2133 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18502747 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR SIMILARITY DETERMINATIONS IN CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18500852 AVOIDING ARTIFACTS FROM TEXTURE PATTERNS IN CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18500426 GENERATING HIGHER RESOLUTION MAP DATA USING LANGUAGE MODELS Nvidia Corporation SHAH, PARAS D 2653 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18483089 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING CAPTURED HUMAN REASONING Nvidia Corporation COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2023
18377642 GLOBAL BANDWIDTH-AWARE ADAPTIVE ROUTING Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18474591 USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO VERIFY MAP DATA IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS 2659 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18472941 PROCESSING SENSOR DATA USING LANGUAGE MODELS IN MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18457221 UNSUPERVISED ALIGNMENT FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Aug 28, 2023
18277963 EFFICIENT ENCRYPTION IN STORAGE Nvidia Corporation GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18449969 UNSUPERVISED ALIGNMENT FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18365966 USING LANGUAGE MODELS IN AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2658 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18269232 MANUFACTURING USING CLOUD-CONTROLLED DEVICE CONFIGURATION AND TESTS Nvidia Corporation DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18338177 CONTENT UPSCALING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS USING ADAPTIVE SAMPLING Nvidia Corporation PATEL, JAYESH A 2677 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18312102 SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION USING MORPHABLE MODELS WITH IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION EMBEDDINGS Nvidia Corporation STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 2611 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18311489 QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND OPTIMIZATION IN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. ZONG, HELEN 2683 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18141595 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE OR DATA AGGREGATION IN COMPUTER NETWORKS Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. ONAT, UMUT 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 01, 2023
18181901 DYNAMIC TRANSPORT PROTOCOL SWITCHING FOR COLLABORATIVE CONTENT CREATION AND DISTRIBUTED CONTENT EXPERIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation LEE, BRYAN Y 2445 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18115704 DETECTING MALICIOUS SOFTWARE AND RECOVERING A STORAGE SYSTEM Nvidia Corporation POPHAM, JEFFREY D 2432 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18012797 MULTI-FUNCTION COVER FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY Nvidia Corporation CRUM, JACOB R 2835 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Dec 23, 2022
18068187 EFFICIENT FREQUENCY-BASED AUDIO RESAMPLING FOR USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation SUBRAMANI, NANDINI 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
18066135 REPLICATING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND GENERATING 3D ASSETS FOR SYNTHETIC SCENE GENERATION Nvidia Corporation BEUTEL, WILLIAM A 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Dec 14, 2022
17968260 REAL-TIME OCCLUSION DETECTION BETWEEN FRAMES FOR VIDEO STREAMING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Nvidia Corporation SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Oct 18, 2022
17964773 MOMENTUM CONSERVATION IN PHYSICS ENGINES Nvidia Corporation WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 12, 2022
17948883 COMPONENT ANALYSIS FROM MULTIPLE MODALITIES IN AN INTERACTION ENVIRONMENT Nvidia Corporation SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2022
17888834 TRAINING MAINTENANCE SCENARIOS THOUGH ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION Nvidia Corporation MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2189 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 16, 2022
17798232 HYBRID SOLUTION FOR STEREO IMAGING Nvidia Corporation YANG, JIANXUN 2662 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Aug 08, 2022
17029725 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Sep 23, 2020

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