USPTO Examiner WAHLIN MATTHEW W - Art Unit 2111

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
17137699MEMORY DEVICE AND TEST OPERATION THEREOFDecember 2020October 2022Allow2110NoNo
16973142SERIALIZING AND DESERIALIZING STAGE TESTINGDecember 2020March 2022Allow1510NoNo
16973029METHODS FOR DATA RECOVERY OF A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOFDecember 2020September 2022Allow2220YesNo
17109144FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR MEMORY DEVICEDecember 2020July 2022Allow1910NoNo
17033043ENDURANCE AND SERVICEABILITY IN SOLID STATE DRIVESSeptember 2020August 2024Allow4620YesNo
17031066EFFICIENT ENCODING FOR NON-BINARY ERROR CORRECTION CODESSeptember 2020June 2022Allow2120NoNo
17013089SELECTIVE INHIBITION OF MEMORYSeptember 2020October 2022Allow2610YesNo
17005808MITIGATING SINGLE-EVENT UPSETS USING CONTAINERIZATIONAugust 2020February 2022Allow1710YesNo
16985509STORAGE CIRCUIT WITH HARDWARE READ ACCESSAugust 2020July 2023Allow3620YesNo
16924620Memory device test circuit and memory device test methodJuly 2020June 2022Allow2310NoNo
16960639TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RECEPTION DEVICEJuly 2020August 2022Allow2511YesNo
16919019DETECTING AND REMEDIATING UNAUTHORIZED DEBUG SESSIONSJuly 2020June 2023Allow3520NoNo
16869492READ SOFT BITS THROUGH BOOSTED MODULATION FOLLOWING READING HARD BITSMay 2020September 2022Allow2810NoNo
16757945TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE, AND RECEPTION METHODApril 2020June 2022Allow2621YesNo
16803295EFFICIENT RESOURCE SHARINGFebruary 2020March 2022Allow2410NoNo
16795119UNDO AND REDO OF SOFT POST PACKAGE REPAIRFebruary 2020September 2023Allow4310YesNo
16742292CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR AT SPEED DETECTION OF A WORD LINE FAULT CONDITION IN A MEMORY CIRCUITJanuary 2020August 2022Allow3120NoNo
16741017REFRESH-HIDING MEMORY SYSTEM STAGGERED REFRESHJanuary 2020September 2022Allow3230YesNo
16732603RANDOM NOISE GENERATIONJanuary 2020September 2022Allow3210YesNo
16721887Data Storage Devices, Access Device and Data Processing MethodsDecember 2019March 2022Allow2710NoNo
16705038BUILT-IN SELF-TESTING AND FAILURE CORRECTION CIRCUITRYDecember 2019August 2021Allow2000NoNo
16682925METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME OUTLIER DETECTION AND PRODUCT RE-BINNINGNovember 2019March 2022Allow2810YesNo
16681587MULTI-LEVEL SIGNALING FOR A MEMORY DEVICENovember 2019April 2022Allow2920NoNo
16679292MEMORY DEVICE AND MULTI PHYSICAL CELLS ERROR CORRECTION METHOD THEREOFNovember 2019February 2022Allow2730YesNo
16612681CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK CIRCUIT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, CHIP AND ELECTRONIC DEVICENovember 2019March 2022Allow2820NoNo
16673684ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND MEMORY CONTROLLER HAVING THE SAMENovember 2019January 2022Allow2620YesNo
16610728Adaptive Selection and Efficient Storage of Information Bit Locations for Polar CodesNovember 2019March 2022Allow2820YesNo
16583682MONITORING OF TRIPLE REDUNDANT CIRCULAR DATASeptember 2019August 2021Abandon2220NoNo
16583639METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING A MULTI-DIE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICESeptember 2019June 2021Allow2110YesNo
16490293Generalized Polar CodesAugust 2019January 2022Allow2920NoNo
16556981SCRUB MANAGEMENT IN STORAGE CLASS MEMORYAugust 2019June 2021Allow2210NoNo
16556917RELIABILITY EVALUATION APPARATUSAugust 2019July 2021Allow2320NoNo
16544055NON-SEQUENTIAL PAGE CONTINUOUS READAugust 2019February 2021Allow1810YesNo
16538020SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH A NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICEAugust 2019February 2021Abandon1810NoNo
16537620MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA ACCESS METHODAugust 2019December 2021Allow2920YesNo
16534560SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SELF-DIAGNOSISAugust 2019October 2021Allow2620YesNo
16533463FAST PAGE CONTINUOUS READAugust 2019January 2021Allow1710NoNo
16527653WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHODJuly 2019February 2021Abandon1810NoNo
16510735DECISION FOR EXECUTING FULL-MEMORY REFRESH DURING MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM POWER-ON STAGEJuly 2019March 2022Allow3230YesNo
16510483SELF-ADAPTIVE READ VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT USING BOUNDARY ERROR STATISTICS FOR MEMORIES WITH TIME-VARYING ERROR RATESJuly 2019April 2021Allow2110YesNo
16510318MEMORY SYSTEM WITH LOW-COMPLEXITY DECODING AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH MEMORY SYSTEMJuly 2019February 2022Allow3130NoNo
16508951MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFJuly 2019December 2021Allow2940YesNo
16506809STORAGE DEVICE USING BUFFER MEMORY IN READ RECLAIM OPERATIONJuly 2019December 2021Allow2930YesNo
16502690TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED ERASURE CODING IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMSJuly 2019December 2021Allow2930NoNo
16458021LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC) DECODER ARCHITECTURE WITH CHECK NODE STORAGE (CNS) OR BOUNDED CIRCULANTJune 2019April 2021Allow2110NoNo
16453097METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGN OF PUNCTURED POLAR CODESJune 2019January 2021Allow1910NoNo
16471617METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VECTOR BASED LDPC BASE MATRIX USAGE AND GENERATIONJune 2019February 2021Allow2020YesNo
16429618METHOD OF EXECUTING INITIAL PROGRAM LOAD IN ELECTRONIC DEVICEJune 2019December 2020Abandon1820NoNo
16423800CIRCUIT APPARATUS, ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MOBILE UNITMay 2019February 2021Allow2020YesNo
16420504ERROR CORRECTION CODE (ECC) AND DATA BUS INVERSION (DBI) ENCODINGMay 2019August 2020Allow1510NoNo
16420200MEMORY WITH ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUITMay 2019September 2020Allow1610NoNo
16346542ENCODING SYSTEM FOR INCREMENTAL REDUNDANCY FOR HYBRID ARQ FOR WIRELESS NETWORKSMay 2019July 2021Allow2620YesNo
16345390METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA PROCESSING IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEMApril 2019August 2021Allow2720NoYes
16299272MEMORY SYSTEM, MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFMarch 2019August 2021Abandon3020YesNo
16289738FAILURE MODE STUDY BASED ERROR CORRECTIONMarch 2019July 2021Allow2820YesYes
16289723Retry-Read MethodMarch 2019August 2020Abandon1810NoNo
16286246Multi Mode Memory Module with Data HandlersFebruary 2019September 2021Allow3021YesNo
16253027Error Correction For Storage DevicesJanuary 2019November 2020Allow2210NoNo
16318815COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMJanuary 2019August 2021Allow3130YesNo
16240697Scan-Chain Testing Via Deserializer PortJanuary 2019April 2021Allow2720YesNo
16314949BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUITJanuary 2019March 2022Allow3950NoNo
16230929IN SYSTEM TEST OF CHIPS IN FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMSDecember 2018March 2022Allow3950YesNo
16227876MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEDecember 2018March 2021Allow2720NoNo
16227021POWER LOSS TEST ENGINE DEVICE AND METHODDecember 2018December 2021Allow3630YesNo
16220209TRANSISTION FAULT TESTING OF FUNTIONALLY ASYNCHRONOUS PATHS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUITDecember 2018November 2021Allow3630NoNo
16220253TEST METHOD FOR TRANSMIT PORT OF STORAGE DEVICES OF SYSTEM HOSTDecember 2018November 2020Abandon2320YesNo
16218159SELECTIVELY PERFORMING MULTI-PLANE READ OPERATIONS IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORYDecember 2018February 2021Allow2620NoNo
16213563DATA INTEGRITY IN NON-VOLATILE STORAGEDecember 2018March 2021Abandon2820YesNo
16199333MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY SYSTEMNovember 2018October 2020Allow2310NoNo
16153546SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO DETECT ADDRESS FAULTSOctober 2018March 2021Allow2920YesNo
16152170MEMORY SYSTEMOctober 2018July 2021Abandon3330YesNo
16152100MEMORY SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC AUTO-REPAIRING FUNCTION AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFOctober 2018June 2020Abandon2010NoNo
16151220MEMORY TESTING TECHNIQUESOctober 2018January 2022Allow4050NoNo
16150263MEMORY TESTING METHOD AND MEMORY TESTING SYSTEMOctober 2018July 2021Allow3440NoNo
16150064BUILT IN CONFIGURATION MEMORY TESTOctober 2018August 2020Allow2220YesNo
16150142SORT SYSTEM INCLUDING NORMALIZATIONOctober 2018January 2020Allow1600NoNo
16148371DYNAMIC DEBUGGING OF CIRCUITSOctober 2018June 2020Allow2120YesNo
16145983TECHNIQUES TO A SET VOLTAGE LEVEL FOR A DATA ACCESSSeptember 2018May 2020Allow2020YesNo
16129440SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGNING DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICESeptember 2018February 2021Abandon2920NoNo
16045839AUTO DETECTION OF JTAG DEBUGGERS/EMULATORSJuly 2018November 2020Abandon2820NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner WAHLIN, MATTHEW W.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
2
Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(100.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
95.5%
Higher than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 100.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Strategic Recommendations

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner WAHLIN, MATTHEW W - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner WAHLIN, MATTHEW W works in Art Unit 2111 and has examined 80 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 85.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner WAHLIN, MATTHEW W's allowance rate of 85.0% places them in the 62% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by WAHLIN, MATTHEW W receive 1.89 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 42% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by WAHLIN, MATTHEW W is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 74% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by WAHLIN, MATTHEW W. This interview benefit is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 40.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 91% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 50.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 75% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 200.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 94% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. Before filing a full appeal brief, strongly consider requesting a PAC. The PAC provides an opportunity for the examiner and supervisory personnel to reconsider the rejection before the case proceeds to the PTAB.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 88% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 50.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 1% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 8% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Consider after-final amendments: This examiner frequently enters after-final amendments. If you can clearly overcome rejections with claim amendments, file an after-final amendment before resorting to an RCE.
  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.
  • Request pre-appeal conferences: PACs are highly effective with this examiner. Before filing a full appeal brief, request a PAC to potentially resolve issues without full PTAB review.
  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

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