Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel (Amd)

36 pending office actions • 1 client • 35 examiners • 29 art units • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

36
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
21
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

19
Overdue
2
Due this week
9
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (19)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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%)
33
Medium (92%)
2
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only32 (89%)
§102 only1 (3%)
§112 only2 (6%)
No statute on record1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
25
Information Tech
69% of docket
7
Communications
19% of docket
3
Semiconductors
8% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
3% 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.

360 h
Manual time on pending OAs
72 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
126 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHAO, BING 2 89.8% +46.1%
CRAWFORD, JACINTA M 1 88.0% +9.5%
TRA, ANH QUAN 1 72.7% +5.5%
DHARIA, PRABODH M 1 85.6% +5.4%
WU, CHONG 1 86.1% +3.4%
VICARY, KEITH E 1 57.5% +41.3%
HASSAN, AURANGZEB 1 80.1% +17.2%
LI, ZHUO H 1 89.1% +3.6%
WEI, XIAOMING 1 83.3% +24.0%
TORRENTE, RICHARD T 1 69.3% +14.0%

Quick Wins (8)

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
18334363 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MIGRATE MORE SENSITIVE WORKLOADS TO FASTER CHIPLETS ZHAO, BING 60d overdue
18742830 Intersection Testing on Dense Geometry Data using Triangle Prefiltering WU, CHONG 46d overdue
18619513 LOW LATENCY SCRATCH MEMORY PATH LI, ZHUO H 24d overdue
18619585 IMPROVED QUALITY OF ANIMATION FOR COMPRESSED GEOMETRY WEI, XIAOMING 1d overdue
18189995 REDUCING VOLTAGE DROOP BY LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF WORK BLOCKS TO COMPUTE CIRCUITS ZHAO, BING 14d
18753602 Format and mechanism for efficient geometry specification DHARIA, PRABODH M 22d
18764603 REGISTER COMPACTION WITH EARLY RELEASE CRAWFORD, JACINTA M 29d
18619736 ON-CHIP COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS HASSAN, AURANGZEB 70d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18619392 WAVE LEVEL MATRIX MULTIPLY INSTRUCTIONS VICARY, KEITH E 128d overdue
18334363 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MIGRATE MORE SENSITIVE WORKLOADS TO FASTER CHIPLETS ZHAO, BING 60d overdue
18439204 VIDEO ENCODING OPTIMIZATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING CONTENT CATEGORIZATION TORRENTE, RICHARD T 49d overdue
18619585 IMPROVED QUALITY OF ANIMATION FOR COMPRESSED GEOMETRY WEI, XIAOMING 1d overdue
18189995 REDUCING VOLTAGE DROOP BY LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF WORK BLOCKS TO COMPUTE CIRCUITS ZHAO, BING 14d
18619736 ON-CHIP COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS HASSAN, AURANGZEB 70d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
AMD 36

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21754
21513
21842
21942
26171
28431
26291
26131
21831
21331

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18764603 REGISTER COMPACTION WITH EARLY RELEASE Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. CRAWFORD, JACINTA M 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 05, 2024
18763572 COMBINATION SCHEME FOR BASELINE WANDER, DIRECT CURRENT LEVEL SHIFTING, AND RECEIVER LINEAR EQUALIZATION FOR HIGH SPEED LINKS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. TRA, ANH QUAN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18753602 Format and mechanism for efficient geometry specification Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. DHARIA, PRABODH M 2629 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18742830 Intersection Testing on Dense Geometry Data using Triangle Prefiltering Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. WU, CHONG 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18619392 WAVE LEVEL MATRIX MULTIPLY INSTRUCTIONS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. VICARY, KEITH E 2183 §102 Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18619736 ON-CHIP COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18619513 LOW LATENCY SCRATCH MEMORY PATH Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. LI, ZHUO H 2133 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18619585 IMPROVED QUALITY OF ANIMATION FOR COMPRESSED GEOMETRY Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. WEI, XIAOMING 2611 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18439204 VIDEO ENCODING OPTIMIZATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING CONTENT CATEGORIZATION Ati Technologies Ulc TORRENTE, RICHARD T 2485 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18395484 METHOD FOR LENS BREATHING COMPENSATION IN CAMERA SYSTEMS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. CHIU, WESLEY JASON 2639 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2023
18395483 VOLTAGE MARGIN OPTIMIZATION BASED ON WORKLOAD SENSITIVITY Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS 2175 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2023
18393662 GENERATION OF OVERCLOCKING PROFILE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ZAMAN, FAISAL M 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18393656 WAY TO LAUNCH A LARGE NUMBER OF GAME INSTANCES IN DIFFERENT LEVELS ON A CLOUD PLATFORM Ati Technologies Ulc DOSHI, ANKIT B 3715 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18540726 VECTOR MEMORY LOADS RETURN TO CACHE Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. HUSON, ZACHARY K 2181 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18530020 SCALABLE PAIRINGS OF CHIPLETS OF A DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT Ati Technologies Ulc SUN, CHARLIE 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18478757 CACHE VIRTUALIZATION Ati Technologies Ulc SADLER, NATHAN 2139 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18236864 Using Sub-Networks Created from Neural Networks for Processing Color Images Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. VO, QUANG N 2683 Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2023
18346070 Mitigation Of Undershoot And Overshoot On A Power Rail Ati Technologies Ulc CLEARY, THOMAS J 2175 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18334363 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MIGRATE MORE SENSITIVE WORKLOADS TO FASTER CHIPLETS Ati Technologies Ulc ZHAO, BING 2151 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18327813 DYNAMIC REALLOCATION OF DISPLAY MEMORY BANDWIDTH BASED ON SYSTEM STATE Ati Technologies Ulc FOSTER, THOMAS JOHN 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18128805 DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF MEMORY OPERATING FREQUENCY TO AVOID RF INTERFERENCE WITH WIFI Ati Technologies Ulc PHUNG, LUAT 2468 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18189995 REDUCING VOLTAGE DROOP BY LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF WORK BLOCKS TO COMPUTE CIRCUITS Ati Technologies Ulc ZHAO, BING 2151 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 24, 2023
18181054 MEMORY BIT CELLS WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL CROSS FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN 2817 §112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Mar 09, 2023
18068442 Simulated Annealing for Parallel Insertion-Based BVH Optimization Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE 2156 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
18064170 MULTIPLE PROCESSES SHARING GPU MEMORY OBJECTS Ati Technologies Ulc KE, PENG 2194 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 09, 2022
18047482 BACKSIDE POWER WITH ON-DIE POWER SWITCHES Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ADHIKARI DAWADI, BIPANA 2898 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Oct 18, 2022
17957508 Selecting a Tiling Scheme for Processing Instances of Input Data Through a Neural Netwok Ati Technologies Ulc BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17853670 Communication of Data for a Model Between Nodes in an Electronic Device Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. HWANG, MEGAN ELIZABETH 2143 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022
17575991 CACHE FOR STORING REGIONS OF DATA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. OBERLY, ERIC T 2184 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 14, 2022
17563788 PEAK ELECTRICAL CURRENT CONTROL OF SOC OR APU WITH MULTIPLE PROCESSOR CORES AND MULTIPLE GRAPHIC COMPUTE UNITS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 2175 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Dec 28, 2021
17562921 AUTOMATED USE OF COMPUTATIONAL MOTIFS VIA DEEP LEARNING DETECTION Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. PAN, HANG 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 27, 2021
17489576 Distributing Model Data in Memories in Nodes in an Electronic Device Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2021
17362661 Using Neural Networks to Handle Watermarks in Digital Files Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. DIEP, DUY T 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2021
17215437 HUMAN-LIKE NON-PLAYER CHARACTER BEHAVIOR WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Ati Technologies Ulc STARKS, WILBERT L 2122 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2021
17031601 ARCHITECTED LIBRARY INTERFACE FOR KERNEL FUSION Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. RAMESH, TIRUMALE K 2121 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2020
15965231 FEEDBACK GUIDED SPLIT WORKGROUP DISPATCH FOR GPUS Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2018

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