Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
360 pending office actions • 48 clients • 329 examiners • 152 art units • 0 of 360 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
This profile covers Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and includes 27115 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 95.01%, while the average is 2.95 office actions per allowance. The extensive application record shows a high reported allowance outcome with several examination interactions typically occurring before allowance.
The profile has 363 pending office actions, creating a substantial active docket. Managing that workload requires consistent treatment of claim amendments, cited references, and response deadlines across a large portfolio. The historical allowance rate supports a favorable outcome context, while the action average helps calibrate expected prosecution effort. Neither measure determines the result of an individual pending semiconductor, circuit, or optics application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 71 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. 71 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 | 1 (0%) |
| §101 + other | 14 (4%) |
| §103 only | 145 (40%) |
| §102 only | 39 (11%) |
| §112 only | 7 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 146 (41%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, JIMMY S | 4 | 57.8% | +23.8% |
| GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 3 | 61.7% | +17.4% |
| CHOI, WOO H | 3 | 83.7% | -4.4% |
| KOLB, THADDEUS J | 3 | 85.7% | +20.8% |
| BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2 | 63.3% | +10.8% |
| WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 2 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2 | 77.3% | +9.9% |
| ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL | 2 | 69.6% | +2.7% |
| ZHANG, JUE | 2 | 83.3% | +10.0% |
| PATEL, AMOL H | 2 | 85.6% | +9.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17932735 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 5d overdue |
| 19472652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UNIFIED CLASSIFICATION IN IN-LOOP FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | — |
| 18793792 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BANDWIDTH EXTENDED SIGNAL FROM A BANDWIDTH LIMITED AUDIO SIGNAL | CHOI, WOO H | — |
| 18793791 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BANDWIDTH EXTENDED SIGNAL FROM A BANDWIDTH LIMITED AUDIO SIGNAL | CHOI, WOO H | — |
| 18793794 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A BANDWIDTH EXTENDED SIGNAL FROM A BANDWIDTH LIMITED AUDIO SIGNAL | CHOI, WOO H | — |
| 17815297 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KOLB, THADDEUS J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488429 | DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION (DTX) INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF | MOHEBBI, KOUROUSH | 146d overdue |
| 18447486 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENCODING, DECODING, SCENE PROCESSING AND OTHER PROCEDURES RELATED TO DIRAC BASED SPATIAL AUDIO CODING USING DIRECT COMPONENT COMPENSATION | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 104d overdue |
| 18449824 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE WITH CONTACT STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CHAN, CANDICE | 42d overdue |
| 18720919 | Method and Apparatus for Cross Component Linear Model with Multiple Hypotheses Intra Modes in Video Coding System | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 32d overdue |
| 18630104 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING IN A PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | WILLOUGHBY, TERRENCE RONIQUE | 30d overdue |
| 18727516 | Method and Apparatus Deriving Merge Candidate from Affine Coded Blocks for Video Coding | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 10d overdue |
| 18881548 | Method and Apparatus for Picture Padding in Video Coding | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 5d overdue |
| 18735959 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SPEEDING UP PACKET PROCESSING | BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES | 4d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881548 | Method and Apparatus for Picture Padding in Video Coding | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 5d overdue |
| 17932735 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 5d overdue |
| 18994855 | Method and Apparatus of Improving Performance of Convolutional Cross-Component Model in Video Coding System | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 7d |
| 19472686 | INTRA PREDICTION FUSION WITH INHERITED CROSS-COMPONENT MODELS | LEE, JIMMY S | — |
| 19472640 | ADAPTIVE SAMPLE CLIPPING | BOYLAN, JAMES T | — |
| 19472652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UNIFIED CLASSIFICATION IN IN-LOOP FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | — |
| 19471785 | REFINEMENT FOR MERGE MODE MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCE | LEE, JIMMY S | — |
| 19471798 | ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION IN VIDEO CODING | LEE, JIMMY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 19 |
| 2482 | 10 |
| 2817 | 10 |
| 2487 | 9 |
| 2812 | 9 |
| 2845 | 8 |
| 2645 | 8 |
| 2486 | 7 |
| 2871 | 7 |
| 2898 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19473099 | COMBINED PREDICTION MODE | MediaTek Inc. | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2426 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19472686 | INTRA PREDICTION FUSION WITH INHERITED CROSS-COMPONENT MODELS | MediaTek Inc. | LEE, JIMMY S | 2487 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2025 |
| 19472695 | METHODS AND APPARATUS OF LOCAL ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION MODEL INHERITANCE FOR VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | GADOMSKI, STEFAN J | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2025 |
| 19472696 | METHODS AND APPARATUS OF SIGNALLING FOR LOCAL ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION | MediaTek Inc. | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2025 |
| 19472640 | ADAPTIVE SAMPLE CLIPPING | MediaTek Inc. | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2025 |
| 19472649 | Methods and Apparatus for Intra Mode Fusion in an Image and Video Coding System | MediaTek Inc. | UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE | 2481 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2025 |
| 19472652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UNIFIED CLASSIFICATION IN IN-LOOP FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2025 |
| 19471785 | REFINEMENT FOR MERGE MODE MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCE | MediaTek Inc. | LEE, JIMMY S | 2487 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19471798 | ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION IN VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | LEE, JIMMY S | 2487 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19470853 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING CANDIDATE LIST FOR INHERITING NEIGHBORING CROSS-COMPONENT MODELS FOR CHROMA INTER CODING | MediaTek Inc. | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19168553 | Methods and Apparatus of Blending Intra Prediction for Video Coding | MediaTek Inc. | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19322795 | TUNER CODEWORD DATABASE CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE | MediaTek Inc. | LU, KUEN S | 2165 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19160180 | SIGNALING PARTITIONING INFORMATION FOR VIDEO AND IMAGE CODING | MediaTek Inc. | VO, TUNG T | 2425 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19311549 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Innolux Corporation | NADKARNI, SARVESH J | 2629 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 18703472 | CANCER TYPE PREDICTION MODEL ESTABLISHMENT SYSTEM, CANCER TYPE PREDICTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME | Inventec Appliances Corp. | LAGOY, KYRA RAND | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2025 |
| 19273510 | Method and Apparatus for Coding Mode Selection in Video Coding System | MediaTek Inc. | SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19145290 | Method and Apparatus for Adaptive Loop Filter with Cross-Component Taps for Video Coding | MediaTek Inc. | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19145036 | Method and Apparatus of ALF with Model-Based Taps in Video Coding System | MediaTek Inc. | ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19145028 | REPRESENTATIVE PREDICTION MODE OF A BLOCK OF PIXELS | MediaTek Inc. | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19245768 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MOTION PREDICTION | MediaTek Inc. | NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19245756 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MOTION PREDICTION | MediaTek Inc. | TREHAN, AKSHAY | 2639 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19241545 | ARQ/HARQ-RELATED PROCEDURE FOR GRANT-FREE RANDOM ACCESS | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | LE, BRIAN T | 2479 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19237327 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19216762 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE | Wistron Corporation | ALJUNDI, MOUHAMMAD AWNI | 2639 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19191207 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DETECTING OPTICAL SIGNAL | Innolux Corporation | WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 2627 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19188133 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | Wistron Neweb Corp. | BACK, AUSTIN M | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19120419 | Method and Apparatus of Subblock-based Motion Vector Prediction with Reordering and Refinement in Video Coding | MediaTek Inc. | ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19095114 | PDN FOR POWER CONTROL OF PROCESSING UNIT | MediaTek Inc. | PANDEY, KESHAB R | 2176 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19117259 | INTER PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19092272 | LAPTOP COMPUTER | Quanta Computer Inc. | KING, MONICA C | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19086261 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF | MediaTek Inc. | WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 2655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19078433 | PUSHER FOR USE IN AN AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT, A TEST ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING THE PUSHER AND A METHOD FOR MECHANICALLY PUSHING THE DEVICE UNDER TEST WITH A SINGLE-LINEARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA INTO A DEVICE UNDER TEST SOCKET | Advantest Corporation | PHAM, THAI N | 2845 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19076157 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD | MediaTek Inc. | GANGER, LAUREN ZANNAH | 2156 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19106736 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19059404 | SPRING CLIP STRUCTURE, CIRCUIT BOARD STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Wistron Neweb Corporation | WU, JAMES | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19058288 | ASYMMETRICAL HALF-BRIDGE FLYBACK POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT THAT CAN DIRECTLY OBTAIN OUTPUT POWER INFORMATION WITHOUT ISOLATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | Richtek Technology Corporation | TRAN, NGUYEN | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19058206 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD USING THE SAME | Sercomm Corporation | HUANG, WEN WU | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 | |
| 19104284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING NON-ACCESS STRATUM MOBILITY MANAGEMENT CAUSE FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK ACCESS | MediaTek Inc. | TAYLOR, BARRY W | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 | |
| 19104289 | BOUNDARY SAMPLE DERIVATION IN VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | HABIB, IRFAN | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19050905 | AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT, METHOD FOR TESTING A DEVICE UNDER TEST AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A FITTING APPROACH TO OBTAIN TEMPERATURE CONTROL INSTRUCTIONS | Advantest Corporation | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | 2858 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19050161 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT AND REGISTRATION METHOD THEREOF | Realtek Singapore Private Limited | WOLF, DARREN E | 2634 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19049277 | CONTROL CIRCUIT OF FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH LOW CURRENT LOSS | Richtek Technology Corporation | ZHANG, JUE | 2838 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19049068 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY OPERATION METHOD | Macronix International Co., Ltd. | AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19036087 | METHOD FOR LLM INFERENCE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME | MediaTek Inc. | NEWAY, SAMUEL G | 2657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18997884 | Method and Apparatus of Subblock-based Temporal Motion Vector Prediction with Reordering and Refinement in Video Coding | MediaTek Inc. | ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 2487 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18997289 | Method and Apparatus for Blending Prediction in Video Coding System | MediaTek Inc. | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18997298 | REFERENCE LIST REORDERING IN VIDEO CODING | MediaTek Inc. | BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18997280 | AFFINE CANDIDATE REFINEMENT | MediaTek Inc. | HOLDER, ANNER N | 2484 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19032713 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING CUSTOM PHOTOS BASED ON SKELETAL FEATURE POINT INPUT | Perfect Mobile Corp. | BADER, ROBERT N. | 2611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19028684 | LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY SYSTEM | Petaray Inc. | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial95.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Mcclure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP were allowed, across 27,115 applications in USPTO records.
2.95 office actions per allowed application on average.
360 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 48 clients, before 329 examiners in 152 art units.
