Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 2 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hogan Lovells US LLP - Nvidia has 6396 career applications in Computing & Software. The firm currently handles 12 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate pct is 83.47, which reflects the firm's success in securing patent grants from its total resolved applications. This volume of 6396 applications reflects the firm's extensive experience and well-established practice in the software sector.
The average office actions per allowance is 3.31. This figure indicates the typical number of office actions required to reach an allowance. With 6396 career applications and an 83.47 resolved allowance rate pct, the firm has an established record of performance. The average of 3.31 office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for the expected level of examiner interaction. The 12 pending office actions show the firm's current workload in the computing sector.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, XUXING | 1 | 86.1% | +11.6% |
| KESSLER, GREGORY AARON | 1 | 87.1% | +8.0% |
| CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 1 | 87.5% | +14.3% |
| MORALES, PEDRO JESUS | 1 | 61.5% | +55.6% |
| HASSAN, AURANGZEB | 1 | 80.3% | +17.0% |
| CARRASQUILLO, ALEX DANIEL | 1 | 63.6% | +29.7% |
| MILLS, FRANK D | 1 | 69.5% | +22.7% |
| LEE, BYUNG RO | 1 | 75.8% | +14.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240549 | DATA PACKETS WITH MEMORY ACCESS PROTOCOLS IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET NETWORKS | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799275 | AUTOMATIC POPULATION OF BOOT VOLUMES | CHEN, XUXING | — |
| 18625745 | TRAFFIC MONITORING AND CONTROL DURING LIVE MIGRATION | KESSLER, GREGORY AARON | — |
| 18403208 | VOLTAGE VARIATION SUPPRESSION USING PSRR BOOST IN LINEAR REGULATORS | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
| 17887642 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE RECOMMENDATION THROUGH COMPONENT CONDITION DATA MONITORING | LEE, BYUNG RO | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799275 | AUTOMATIC POPULATION OF BOOT VOLUMES | CHEN, XUXING | — |
| 18403208 | VOLTAGE VARIATION SUPPRESSION USING PSRR BOOST IN LINEAR REGULATORS | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
| 18382763 | USING SPECIAL TOKENS FOR SECURE PROMPT TEMPLATE INPUT TO LANGUAGE MODELS | MORALES, PEDRO JESUS | — |
| 18240549 | DATA PACKETS WITH MEMORY ACCESS PROTOCOLS IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET NETWORKS | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | — |
| 18142180 | PROTECTING SECRETS WITH MULTI-PARTY APPROVAL IN COMPUTER NETWORKS | CARRASQUILLO, ALEX DANIEL | — |
| 18109729 | ACCELERATED EMULATION DEVICE BACKEND SOFTWARE UPDATE WITH SHORT DOWNTIME | MILLS, FRANK D | — |
| 17887642 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE RECOMMENDATION THROUGH COMPONENT CONDITION DATA MONITORING | LEE, BYUNG RO | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. | 5 |
| NVIDIA | 3 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2176 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 2194 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18799275 | AUTOMATIC POPULATION OF BOOT VOLUMES | Nvidia Corporation | CHEN, XUXING | 2176 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18625745 | TRAFFIC MONITORING AND CONTROL DURING LIVE MIGRATION | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | KESSLER, GREGORY AARON | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 | |
| 18403208 | VOLTAGE VARIATION SUPPRESSION USING PSRR BOOST IN LINEAR REGULATORS | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18382763 | USING SPECIAL TOKENS FOR SECURE PROMPT TEMPLATE INPUT TO LANGUAGE MODELS | Nvidia Corporation | MORALES, PEDRO JESUS | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18240549 | DATA PACKETS WITH MEMORY ACCESS PROTOCOLS IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET NETWORKS | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | 2184 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18142180 | PROTECTING SECRETS WITH MULTI-PARTY APPROVAL IN COMPUTER NETWORKS | Nvidia Corporation | CARRASQUILLO, ALEX DANIEL | 2498 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18109729 | ACCELERATED EMULATION DEVICE BACKEND SOFTWARE UPDATE WITH SHORT DOWNTIME | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | MILLS, FRANK D | 2194 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17887642 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE RECOMMENDATION THROUGH COMPONENT CONDITION DATA MONITORING | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | LEE, BYUNG RO | 2858 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2022 |
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