Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
542 pending office actions • 68 clients • 432 examiners • 189 art units • 22 of 542 (4%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,153 patents granted in the last 365 days
NSIP LAW manages 20424 career applications, primarily focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate of 95.15 percent, which provides a measure of its historical success.
The firm is currently handling 391 pending office actions. The prosecution process averages 3.17 office actions per allowance. This average of 3.17, combined with the 95.15 percent allowance rate, describes the typical examination experience for the firm's 20424 career applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 136 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. 136 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 | 14 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 73 (13%) |
| §103 only | 186 (34%) |
| §102 only | 41 (8%) |
| §112 only | 20 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 5 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 10 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 191 (35%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 20 | 83.7% | +10.5% |
| RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 12 | 79.9% | +9.3% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 6 | 61.7% | +24.0% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 5 | 68.1% | +16.5% |
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 5 | 65.0% | +7.1% |
| LEE, Y YOUNG | 4 | 48.5% | +25.8% |
| COLLINS, DARRYL J | 4 | 89.1% | +4.9% |
| FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 4 | 76.1% | +10.5% |
| SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 4 | 79.5% | +13.1% |
| HUANG, WEN | 4 | 81.8% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17859565 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHARING A CANDIDATE LIST | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 8d overdue |
| 19426386 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19426464 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19426432 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19410501 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19326156 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19264427 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19011732 | IMAGING LENS SYSTEM AND CAMERA MODULE | COLLINS, DARRYL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18644631 | ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD, AND DEVICE USING SAME | HESS, MICHAEL J | 46d 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 |
| 17859565 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHARING A CANDIDATE LIST | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 8d overdue |
| 18523855 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 4d overdue |
| 18227396 | LENS AND LENS MODULE INCLUDING LENS | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 39d |
| 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 | — |
| 19426386 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19426369 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WERNER, DAVID N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 37 |
| 2488 | 16 |
| 2487 | 11 |
| 2871 | 8 |
| 1655 | 6 |
| 3791 | 6 |
| 3657 | 4 |
| 3669 | 4 |
| 3663 | 4 |
| 2857 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19194144 | Untitled | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CHAN, TRACY C | §103§112 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19447180 | PAINT ARTICLE | Microworks Co., Ltd. | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 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 |
| 19440145 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19426464 | 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 |
| 19426474 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103§112Other | 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 |
| 19426402 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103Other | 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 |
| 19410501 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19341510 | WINDSHIELD DISPLAY | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19326156 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19293031 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION BASED ON IMAGE | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | INSERRA, MADISON RENEE | 3662 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 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 | §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 |
| 19280539 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | §103§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 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 | |
| 19280535 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | §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 | §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 |
| 19266807 | DEVICE AND METHOD WITH HOTNESS TRACKING | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | YU, JAE UN | 2138 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19265162 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD PERFORMED BY THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SAIN, GAUTAM | §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 |
| 19254261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH GRAPH STRUCTURE DATA PROCESSING | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KHONG, ALEXANDER | 2168 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19255462 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | LEE, Y YOUNG | 2482 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 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 |
| 19239504 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc. | HANCE, ROBERT J | 3992 | Other | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19230881 | METHOD FOR GENERATING ANSWER BASED ON ADVANCED RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | Samsung Electronics | YEN, SYLING | 2166 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19230505 | NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD WITH ANTICIPATORY PATH CONTROL | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SHIN, KYUNG H | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19228099 | REFLECTIVE MODULE AND CAMERA MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. | PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 | |
| 19227330 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MULTI-PLANE NETWORK MANAGEMENT | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MIAH, RAZU A | 2454 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19222850 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT CONTROL | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial95.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nsip Law were allowed, across 20,468 applications in USPTO records.
3.17 office actions per allowed application on average.
542 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 68 clients, before 432 examiners in 189 art units.