Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Qorvo And Withrow + Terranova

22 pending office actions • 1 client • 20 examiners • 15 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 120 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
2
Due this week
4
Due this month
6
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (6)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
19
Medium (86%)
3
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (59%)
§102 only6 (27%)
§112 only3 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
3
Communications
14% of docket
16
Semiconductors
73% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MATA, SARA M 3 66.7% +21.3%
GLENN, KIMBERLY E 1 89.8% +6.5%
WELLS, KENNETH B 1 86.3% +2.4%
PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 1 91.6% +13.3%
HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 1 81.3% +6.0%
HSIEH, PING Y 1 78.9% +15.6%
COLE, VICTOR 1 92.1% +10.7%
VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 1 90.0% -0.5%
POOS, JOHN W 1 93.5% +4.6%
THOMAS, ERIC W 1 82.5% -2.4%

Quick Wins (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18775509 TUNABLE SINGLE-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT ACOUSTIC FILTER CIRCUIT PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 89d overdue
18383118 VARACTOR THOMAS, ERIC W 84d overdue
18383286 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE HAVING AN INTERFACE LAYER BETWEEN AN IDT AND A PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER POOS, JOHN W 42d overdue
18393975 WINDOW-BASED ENVELOPE TRACKING IN A MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 9d overdue
18928926 ACOUSTIC FILTER WITH LAMINATE BASED AND BOND-WIRE BASED INDUCTANCE GLENN, KIMBERLY E 15d
18627676 SWITCHING CIRCUIT FOR POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS AND FRONT-END MODULES (FEMS) HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 27d
18888375 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) STRUCTURES WITH TRANSVERSE MODE SUPPRESSION WELLS, KENNETH B 54d
18611837 COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT COLE, VICTOR 55d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18775509 TUNABLE SINGLE-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT ACOUSTIC FILTER CIRCUIT PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 89d overdue
18150627 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR USING MULTILAYER TRANSDUCTION MATERIALS WITH LOW/ZERO COUPLING BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 6d
18150614 BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS WITH TUNABLE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING MATA, SARA M 6d
18150621 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH LOW/ZERO-ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AT BORDER REGION MATA, SARA M 8d
18616807 ACOUSTICALLY SWITCHED RADIO FREQUENCY FRONTEND CIRCUIT HSIEH, PING Y 29d
18611837 COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT COLE, VICTOR 55d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Qorvo 22

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28435
28373
36482
28421
28491
26641
26451
28961
28471
28981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18928926 ACOUSTIC FILTER WITH LAMINATE BASED AND BOND-WIRE BASED INDUCTANCE Qorvo US, Inc. GLENN, KIMBERLY E 2843 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 28, 2024
18888375 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) STRUCTURES WITH TRANSVERSE MODE SUPPRESSION Qorvo US, Inc. WELLS, KENNETH B 2842 §112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18775509 TUNABLE SINGLE-INPUT DUAL-OUTPUT ACOUSTIC FILTER CIRCUIT Qorvo US, Inc. PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 2843 §102 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18627676 SWITCHING CIRCUIT FOR POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS AND FRONT-END MODULES (FEMS) Qorvo US, Inc. HILTUNEN, THOMAS J 2849 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18616807 ACOUSTICALLY SWITCHED RADIO FREQUENCY FRONTEND CIRCUIT Qorvo US, Inc. HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18611837 COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT Qorvo US, Inc. COLE, VICTOR 2843 §102 Final Rejection 55d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18393975 WINDOW-BASED ENVELOPE TRACKING IN A MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT Qorvo US, Inc. VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18383286 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE HAVING AN INTERFACE LAYER BETWEEN AN IDT AND A PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER Qorvo US, Inc. POOS, JOHN W 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18383118 VARACTOR Qorvo US, Inc. THOMAS, ERIC W 2847 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18380977 POWER AMPLIFIER WITH IMPROVED HARMONIC TERMINATION Qorvo US, Inc. CHOE, HENRY 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18201269 ANTENNA STRUCTURE Qorvo US, Inc. DOZE, PETER DAVON 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 24, 2023
18254159 MICROELECTRONICS PACKAGE WITH VERTICALLY STACKED WAFER SLICES AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE SAME Qorvo US, Inc. GREEN, TELLY D 2898 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending May 23, 2023
18197994 SYSTEM IN A PACKAGE (SIP) WITH AIR CAVITY AND EPOXY SEAL Qorvo US, Inc. CHANG, JAY C 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending May 16, 2023
18126526 EMBEDDED HEAT SLUG IN A SUBSTRATE Qorvo US, Inc. ARORA, AJAY 2892 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18110541 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION Qorvo US, Inc. ODOM, CURTIS B 2631 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18165359 POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM WITH PROTECTION CIRCUITRY Qorvo US, Inc. BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 07, 2023
18150627 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR USING MULTILAYER TRANSDUCTION MATERIALS WITH LOW/ZERO COUPLING BORDER REGION Qorvo US, Inc. MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150614 BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS WITH TUNABLE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING Qorvo US, Inc. MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18150621 ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR WITH LOW/ZERO-ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AT BORDER REGION Qorvo US, Inc. MATA, SARA M 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 05, 2023
17987090 MODULE PACKAGE WITH COAXIAL LEAD ASSEMBLY Qorvo US, Inc. YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY 2899 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 15, 2022
17883048 RECEIVER CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING AND WAKING UP TO A WAKEUP IMPULSE SEQUENCE Qorvo US, Inc. NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 2414 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Aug 08, 2022
17182517 ULTRA-WIDEBAND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (UWB IC) AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING A UWB PRODUCT THAT EMPLOYS THE UWB IC Qorvo US, Inc. CROSS, JULIANA MARIA 3648 §112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2021

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