Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
101 pending office actions • 9 clients • 94 examiners • 37 art units • 0 of 101 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
William Park & Associates LTD. operates in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and reports 7281 career applications. Its profile includes 99 pending office actions, indicating a substantial current workload alongside broad application activity. The resolved allowance rate is 95.59%, showing that allowance was recorded for a very large share of resolved applications.
Allowances average 2.48 office actions, indicating that successful matters generally involve more than one examination response but fewer than three on average. The profile provides a distinct measure for each practitioner concern: application scale, current docket, outcome, and prosecution effort. The high allowance rate should therefore be considered together with, rather than substituted for, the action average.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 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. 25 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 + other | 4 (4%) |
| §103 only | 35 (35%) |
| §102 only | 13 (13%) |
| §112 only | 3 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 43 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 3 | 89.6% | +2.0% |
| HO, HOAI V | 2 | 92.7% | +5.5% |
| BASHAR, MOHAMMED A | 2 | 95.1% | +3.4% |
| WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 2 | 86.8% | +6.7% |
| GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 2 | 72.9% | +20.8% |
| STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2 | 88.0% | +16.7% |
| HABIB, IRFAN | 1 | 88.2% | +8.2% |
| ALSHACK, OSMAN M | 1 | 86.4% | +14.7% |
| NGUYEN, THIEN DANG | 1 | 87.4% | +11.8% |
| LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY | 1 | 85.5% | +6.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326781 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2d overdue |
| 18675833 | MEMORY DEVICES CONFIGURED TO PERFORM READ OPERATIONS FOR PSEUDO CHANNELS | BASHAR, MOHAMMED A | 9d |
| 18411412 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM RELATED TO DETECTING A RESULT OF A RUPTURE OPERATION | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 27d |
| 19077770 | ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | NGUYEN, THIEN DANG | — |
| 19073768 | VOLTAGE SUPPLY CIRCUIT | LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY | — |
| 19049544 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE STORAGE DEVICE | HO, HOAI V | — |
| 18942940 | PAGE BUFFER RELATED TO A SENSING OPERATION, MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A PAGE BUFFER, AND OPERATING METHOD OF A PAGE BUFFER | BASHAR, MOHAMMED A | — |
| 18925789 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR PERFORMING DATA ALIGNMENT OPERATION | HO, HOAI V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744023 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | CHANG, DANIEL | 44d overdue |
| 17991365 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | PRIDEMORE, NATHAN ANDREW | 37d overdue |
| 18545325 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 9d overdue |
| 18632972 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING A PROGRAM OPERATION AND AN OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 2d overdue |
| 17901640 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | SWEELY, KURT D | 15d |
| 18095420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ENCODING/DECODING A NEURAL NETWORK FEATURE MAP | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 19d |
| 18484640 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, YU | 26d |
| 18246644 | BLOOD GLUCOSE METER ATTACHABLE TO DORSAL CARPAL ARTERY | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 26d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326781 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2d overdue |
| 19197610 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM USING THE TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD | ALSHACK, OSMAN M | — |
| 19077770 | ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | NGUYEN, THIEN DANG | — |
| 18891864 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — |
| 18679093 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF A MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — |
| 18420019 | PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY DEVICES | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SK Group | 86 |
| WONIK IPS CO., LTD. | 6 |
| Kyung Hee University | 2 |
| ETRI | 2 |
| Seoul National University | 1 |
| GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. | 1 |
| Solidvue Inc. | 1 |
| TEMPUS INC. | 1 |
| HANBAT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 10 |
| 2825 | 9 |
| 2824 | 7 |
| 2812 | 7 |
| 2827 | 6 |
| 2893 | 6 |
| 2818 | 6 |
| 2897 | 6 |
| 1718 | 4 |
| 2896 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19254403 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY | HABIB, IRFAN | 2482 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19197610 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM USING THE TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD | SK Hynix Inc. | ALSHACK, OSMAN M | 2112 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19077770 | ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | NGUYEN, THIEN DANG | 2111 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19073768 | VOLTAGE SUPPLY CIRCUIT | SK Hynix Inc. | LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY | 2824 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19071154 | TEST CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 2111 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19055174 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | GAY, SONIA L | 2657 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19054181 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | SK Hynix Inc. | BUI, THA-O H | 2825 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19054279 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SK Hynix Inc. | BODNARK, MATTHEW JAMES | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19049544 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE STORAGE DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | HO, HOAI V | 2827 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19025221 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, CONTROLLER, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROLLER | SK Hynix Inc. | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19019819 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE STORAGE DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | 2827 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18873887 | METHOD FOR FORMING METAL NITRIDE THIN FILM | Wonik Ips Co., Ltd. | CHEN, BRET P | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18971817 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | CULBERT, ROBERTS P | 1716 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18958602 | OPERATING METHOD OF PAGE BUFFER FOR READ OPERATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | WADDY JR, EDWARD | 2135 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18942940 | PAGE BUFFER RELATED TO A SENSING OPERATION, MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A PAGE BUFFER, AND OPERATING METHOD OF A PAGE BUFFER | SK Hynix Inc. | BASHAR, MOHAMMED A | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18925789 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR PERFORMING DATA ALIGNMENT OPERATION | SK Hynix Inc. | HO, HOAI V | 2827 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18913146 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | SMET, UYEN TRAN | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18898293 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS | SK Hynix Inc. | TRAN, ANTHAN | 2825 | §102 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18892864 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE MEMORY DEVICE, AND TEST OPERATION OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 2825 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18891864 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 2891 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18882127 | MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A VOLTAGE SWITCHING CIRCUIT | SK Hynix Inc. | HOANG, HUAN | 2827 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18816855 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18798400 | INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER CAPABLE OF COMPENSATING OFFSET VOLTAGE | Seoul National University R&Db Foundation | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2836 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18796927 | SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING AN ACTIVE OPERATION USING AN ACTIVE PERIOD CONTROL METHOD | SK Hynix Inc. | BEGUM, SULTANA | 2824 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18793473 | FERROELECTRIC MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF FERROELECTRIC MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18792301 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18787578 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | FAN, SU JYA | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18787428 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | MIHALIOV, DMITRI | 2812 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18778289 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND A MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 | |
| 18776907 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | NGUYEN, DAO H | 2818 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18770150 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | OJEH, NDUKA E | 2892 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18746954 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | TRAN, TONY | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18744023 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY | CHANG, DANIEL | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18740942 | SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PROCESS VARIATION | SK Hynix Inc. | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18731924 | MULTICHIP PACKAGES FORMED IN STABLE STRUTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | ARORA, AJAY | 2892 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18679093 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF A MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 2891 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18677302 | METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | LUONG, DUY HAN | 2825 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18675833 | MEMORY DEVICES CONFIGURED TO PERFORM READ OPERATIONS FOR PSEUDO CHANNELS | SK Hynix Inc. | BASHAR, MOHAMMED A | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18659532 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 2815 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18659944 | TRANSPARENT LIGHT EMITTING PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Global Technologies Co., Ltd. | ADROVEL, WILLIAM | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 | |
| 18649388 | MEMORY CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE MEMORY CHIP | SK Hynix Inc. | MUSE, ISMAIL A | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18647687 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING ELECTRODE AND ISOLATION PATTERN AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | WALL, VINCENT | 2898 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18635649 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | OH, JIYOUNG | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18632972 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING A PROGRAM OPERATION AND AN OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 2825 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18629346 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18618029 | STACK PACKAGES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | KARIMY, TIMOR | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18592052 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SK Hynix Inc. | LUKE, DANIEL M | 2896 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18591895 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF FACILITATING CONTROL FRAME TRANSMISSION AND METHOD THEREFOR | SK Hynix Inc. | WU, JIANYE | 2462 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18586939 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING UNDER-DRIVE OPERATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | TANG, ANTHONY THINH | 2827 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18584426 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | JUNGE, BRYAN R. | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial95.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by William Park & Associates Ltd. were allowed, across 7,281 applications in USPTO records.
2.48 office actions per allowed application on average.
101 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 9 clients, before 94 examiners in 37 art units.
