Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
528 pending office actions • 63 clients • 415 examiners • 224 art units • 19 of 528 (4%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,148 patents granted in the last 365 days
NSIP LAW focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics with 529 pending office actions and 20530 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 95.11%, indicating allowance in nearly all resolved applications. The large application portfolio and extensive pending inventory point to a substantial, active prosecution operation where docket systems and allocation of response resources are important.
The average of 3.17 office actions per allowance indicates that strong resolved outcomes still commonly involve several examination exchanges. Practitioners should therefore separate the favorable allowance result from the procedural work needed to obtain it. The profile provides useful context for portfolio planning, examiner-response preparation, and assessment of expected prosecution activity in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 117 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. 117 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 | 13 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 66 (12%) |
| §103 only | 175 (33%) |
| §102 only | 43 (8%) |
| §112 only | 23 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 7 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 194 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 23 | 83.7% | +10.4% |
| RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 12 | 80.0% | +9.1% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 9 | 68.4% | +16.1% |
| COLLINS, DARRYL J | 7 | 89.1% | +5.0% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 7 | 61.8% | +24.1% |
| HUANG, WEN | 6 | 82.0% | +22.7% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 4 | 65.1% | +27.1% |
| FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 4 | 76.2% | +10.6% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 4 | 66.5% | +22.5% |
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 4 | 65.2% | +7.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949072 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 40d |
| 19631395 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19631412 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19563116 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19559028 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19559031 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19426392 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19426492 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17878451 | REINFORCEMENT LEARNING APPARATUS AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING POSITION OF OBJECT BASED ON DESIGN DATA | STOICA, ADRIAN | 155d overdue |
| 18194082 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FINDING CAUSALITY BETWEEN APPLICATION INSTRUMENTATION POINTS | HEBERT, THEODORE E | 111d overdue |
| 18319892 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 88d overdue |
| 17836403 | NANOSATELLITE-SUBSTRATE COMPLEX AND METHOD OF REGULATING STEM CELL ADHESION AND DIFFERENTIATION USING THE SAME | CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | 86d overdue |
| 17690310 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING PROCESS ANOMALIES | LANE, THOMAS BERNARD | 78d overdue |
| 18517573 | AUTOMATIC INVESTMENT PLATFORM SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD BY ROBO-TRADING BASED ON AI | DUCK, BRANDON M | 66d overdue |
| 18525678 | MULTICAST SERVICE FILTER RULE TRANSFORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | 59d overdue |
| 18321248 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 30d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319892 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 88d overdue |
| 18440877 | LENS MODULE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 9d overdue |
| 18523855 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 4d overdue |
| 18651884 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 9d |
| 19563038 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19559215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19439662 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19439657 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 69 |
| 2488 | 25 |
| 2487 | 20 |
| 2871 | 19 |
| 3791 | 10 |
| 2151 | 7 |
| 3657 | 6 |
| 2857 | 6 |
| 2843 | 6 |
| 2621 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19265443 | Untitled | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | CHEUNG, HUBERT G | 2161 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 18808202 | Untitled | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 3657 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19662454 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2026 |
| 19631395 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2026 |
| 19631412 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2026 |
| 19573609 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2026 |
| 19563038 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 19563116 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 19559028 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19559215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19559031 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19463585 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2026 |
| 19447569 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING VO2 OF USER USING WIRELESS SIGNAL AROUND USER | Korea Institute Of Science And Technology | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2026 |
| 19447180 | PAINT ARTICLE | Microworks Co., Ltd. | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2026 |
| 19439662 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439657 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439653 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439660 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19426369 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426392 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426388 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426492 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426401 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426383 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426432 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426386 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19414697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19414703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19410564 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19410501 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19364560 | LENS CONTROL DEVICE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SMART VARIABLE-FOCUS LENS AND LENS CONTROL METHOD USING THE SAME | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | BIBBEE, CHAYCE R | 2624 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19343363 | PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE USING REFERENCE BLOCK | Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation | HOLDER, ANNER N | 2484 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19340718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA GENERATION | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19326143 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19285831 | WAVE GEAR DRIVE | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19285984 | ENDOSCOPE CLIP USING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY | Korea University Research And Business Foundation | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19281834 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | TRIVEDI, ATUL | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19280516 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | YU, LIHONG | 2631 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280535 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280546 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280550 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280539 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19148933 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DATA RECOVERY INFORMATION OF NAND FLASH MEMORY | Doubleo Co., Ltd. | MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C | 2113 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19265162 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD PERFORMED BY THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SAIN, GAUTAM | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19264427 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19262501 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING OCCUPANT INFORMATION IN A VEHICLE | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | BROWN, ANTHONY D | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19259074 | DEVICE AND METHOD WITH REDUCTION OF CACHE LINE FETCHES | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BENNER, JANE WEI | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19251671 | DEVICE AND METHOD WITH PLAN GENERATION BASED ON SCENE GRAPH AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROMPT | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19249157 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH AUTONOMOUS DRIVING PATH PLANNING | Seoul National University R&Db Foundation | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 3668 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19233298 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH ROBOT CONTROL | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AHMED, MASUD | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial95.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nsip Law were allowed, across 20,530 applications in USPTO records.
3.17 office actions per allowed application on average.
528 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 63 clients, before 415 examiners in 224 art units.
