Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 4 clients • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 11 (79%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 2 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 6 | 80.8% | +18.3% |
| TRAN, TAN N | 1 | 86.7% | +10.0% |
| HASSAN, AURANGZEB | 1 | 80.2% | +17.1% |
| RENNER, CRAIG A | 1 | 84.2% | +17.6% |
| PHAN, DEAN | 1 | 74.0% | +14.0% |
| PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | 1 | 90.0% | +16.7% |
| SWIFT, CHARLES M | 1 | 81.1% | +21.5% |
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 1 | 14.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040639 | RuAl and MgTiO Lamination For Effective Buffer and Interlayers For Topological Material Layers | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 28d |
| 19067574 | Improved YPtBi Composition in Spin Orbit Torque Devices | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 34d |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 46d |
| 19244507 | Magnetic Recording Head with A Cross-Track Current Flow In A Low Resistance Path | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19201452 | Middle Shields Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Read Heads | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18889747 | Doping Process To Refine Grain Size For Smoother BiSb Film Surface | TRAN, TAN N | — |
| 18749413 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader with Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18644417 | Single Sideband Signals Set for Multi-Port Storage Devices | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343173 | REDUCING DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE SCHEMES | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 55d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040639 | RuAl and MgTiO Lamination For Effective Buffer and Interlayers For Topological Material Layers | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 28d |
| 19067574 | Improved YPtBi Composition in Spin Orbit Torque Devices | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 34d |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 46d |
| 19244507 | Magnetic Recording Head with A Cross-Track Current Flow In A Low Resistance Path | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19201452 | Middle Shields Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Read Heads | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18889747 | Doping Process To Refine Grain Size For Smoother BiSb Film Surface | TRAN, TAN N | — |
| 18749413 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader with Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18644417 | Single Sideband Signals Set for Multi-Port Storage Devices | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 11 |
| INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO | 1 |
| Western Digital | 1 |
| TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 8 |
| 2184 | 2 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2121 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19244507 | Magnetic Recording Head with A Cross-Track Current Flow In A Low Resistance Path | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19201452 | Middle Shields Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Read Heads | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19067574 | Improved YPtBi Composition in Spin Orbit Torque Devices | Institute Of Science Tokyo | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19040639 | RuAl and MgTiO Lamination For Effective Buffer and Interlayers For Topological Material Layers | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18890207 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader With Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18889747 | Doping Process To Refine Grain Size For Smoother BiSb Film Surface | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | TRAN, TAN N | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18749413 | Dual Free Layer TMR Reader with Shaped Rear Bias and Methods of Forming Thereof | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18644417 | Single Sideband Signals Set for Multi-Port Storage Devices | Sandisk Technologies LLC | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18397016 | Magnetic Heads Having Low Magnetic Coercivity (HC) And High Saturated Magnetic Flux Density (BS) In Ferromagnetic (FM) Layer(s) Or Shield(s) With Minimized Saturation | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18506281 | Peer-To-Peer Communication Using Drain Buffers In Multi-Function Device | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | PHAN, DEAN | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18461939 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO AVOID COMMAND TIMEOUTS IN A STORAGE DEVICE | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18359674 | ENSURING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT USING SGLS | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | SWIFT, CHARLES M | 2196 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18355102 | Thermal Sensor insitu monitoring of Magnetic Recording head | Tokyo Institute of Technology | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18343173 | REDUCING DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE SCHEMES | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 2121 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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