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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Llp(Asml)

21 pending office actions • 3 clients

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
10
Final Rejections
11
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
ASML Netherlands B.V. 19
ASML Netherlands B.V. 1
Cymer, LLC 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18714728 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING LITHOGRAPHIC DESIGN VARIABLES USING IMAGE-BASED FAILURE RATE MODEL ASML Netherlands B.V. KIM, PETER B 2882 Non-Final OA May 30, 2024
18714547 OVERLAY METROLOGY BASED ON TEMPLATE MATCHING WITH ADAPTIVE WEIGHTING ASML Netherlands B.V. NGUYEN, HUNG 2882 Non-Final OA May 29, 2024
18712671 SURROUNDING PATTERN AND PROCESS AWARE METROLOGY ASML Netherlands B.V. PERSAUD, DEORAM 2882 Non-Final OA May 22, 2024
18705509 DETERMINING AN ETCH EFFECT BASED ON AN ETCH BIAS DIRECTION ASML Netherlands B.V. ASFAW, MESFIN T 2882 Non-Final OA Apr 26, 2024
18511454 PROCESS WINDOW BASED ON DEFECT PROBABILITY ASML Netherlands B.V. WHITESELL, STEVEN H 1759 Non-Final OA Nov 16, 2023
18276018 A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING TARGET PATTERN AND REFERENCE LAYER PATTERN TO DETERMINE OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION FOR MASK ASML Netherlands B.V. SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD 2668 Non-Final OA Aug 04, 2023
18265431 FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR EXTRACTING FEATURE VECTORS FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERN OBJECTS ASML Netherlands B.V. LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON 2674 Final Rejection Jun 05, 2023
18031865 METHOD FOR GENERATING MASK PATTERN ASML Netherlands B.V. LEE, ERIC D 2851 Non-Final OA Apr 13, 2023
18017646 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING HIGH QUALITY IMAGES FROM RAW IMAGES AUTOMATICALLY ASML Netherlands B.V. HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN 2667 Final Rejection Jan 23, 2023
18015313 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING INFORMATIVE PATTERNS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ASML Netherlands B.V. LU, ZHIYU 2665 Final Rejection Jan 09, 2023
17924626 SYSTEMS, PRODUCTS, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PATTERNING DEVICES AND PATTERNS THEREFOR ASML Netherlands B.V. ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED 2851 Non-Final OA Nov 10, 2022
17924543 VERIFYING FREEFORM CURVILINEAR FEATURES OF A MASK DESIGN ASML Netherlands B.V. GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M 2851 Non-Final OA Nov 10, 2022
17780287 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING TARGET FEATURES OF A PATTERN IMAGED ONTO A SUBSTRATE ASML Netherlands B.V. ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED 2851 Final Rejection May 26, 2022
17763698 PROCESS MONITORING AND TUNING USING PREDICTION MODELS ASML Netherlands B.V. PAN, YUHUI R 2116 Final Rejection Mar 25, 2022
17638472 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE GEOMETRY METHOD AND SYSTEM ASML Netherlands B.V. COLE, BRANDON S 2128 Final Rejection Feb 25, 2022
17632632 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC IMAGING ASML Netherlands B.V. WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 2188 Final Rejection Feb 03, 2022
17631557 METHOD FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR IMPROVING PATTERNING PROCESS ASML Netherlands B.V. CRUZ, IRIANA 2681 Final Rejection Jan 31, 2022
17471363 MACHINE-LEARNING BASED DEFECT IDENTIFICATION ASML Netherlands B.V. DULANEY, BENJAMIN O 2683 Final Rejection Sep 10, 2021
17283056 METHOD TO CREATE THE IDEAL SOURCE SPECTRA WITH SOURCE AND MASK OPTIMIZATION Cymer, LLC WHITESELL, STEVEN H 1759 Non-Final OA Apr 06, 2021
16970648 METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR COMPUTATION LITHOGRAPHY ASML Netherlands B.V. COLE, BRANDON S 2128 Final Rejection Aug 18, 2020
16606791 ASSIST FEATURE PLACEMENT BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ASML Netherlands B.V. RUSH, ERIC 2677 Non-Final OA Oct 21, 2019

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