USPTO Examiner OJHA AJAY - Art Unit 2898

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18603313RRAM STRUCTUREMarch 2024May 2025Allow1410NoNo
18600711LOGIC DRIVE BASED ON MULTICHIP PACKAGE USING INTERCONNECTION BRIDGEMarch 2024January 2025Allow1100NoNo
18439378METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICEFebruary 2024December 2025Abandon2210NoNo
18517938TIE OFF DEVICENovember 2023August 2025Allow2121NoNo
18472239SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAMESeptember 2023August 2025Allow2321NoNo
18370883METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DEEPLY DEPLETED CHANNELSeptember 2023April 2025Allow1920NoNo
18461347SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING A THROUGH SILICON VIA STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAMESeptember 2023June 2025Allow2130YesNo
18461373SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING A THROUGH SILICON VIA STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAMESeptember 2023April 2025Allow1921YesNo
18359507Semiconductor Device and Method of ManufacturingJuly 2023April 2025Allow2011NoNo
18359206MANUFACTURING PROCESS WITH ATOMIC LEVEL INSPECTIONJuly 2023May 2025Allow2210YesNo
18356031CONTACT PLUGS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAMEJuly 2023June 2025Allow2221NoNo
17972300NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE FOR DETECTING DEFECTS OF BIT LINES AND WORD LINESOctober 2022June 2024Allow2000NoNo
17966653DISPLAY DEVICEOctober 2022March 2025Allow2900NoNo
17949022HETEROGENEOUS BONDING FOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONSeptember 2022June 2025Allow3311YesNo
17883250METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGEAugust 2022July 2025Allow3510YesNo
17806907SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE WITH REDISTRIBUTION SUBSTRATEJune 2022September 2025Allow3920YesNo
17775847LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND SURFACE-EMITTING DEVICEMay 2022June 2025Allow3710NoNo
17718196HIGH DENSITY 3D ROUTING WITH ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY FOR A PLURALITY OF 3D DEVICESApril 2022December 2025Abandon4421NoNo
17655807BOTTOM CONTACT WITH SELF-ALIGNED SPACER FOR STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICESMarch 2022August 2025Allow4131YesNo
17762239MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DISPLAYING BASE PLATE, DISPLAYING BASE PLATE AND DISPLAYING APPARATUSMarch 2022October 2025Allow4311NoNo
17677435WAFER TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING DEVICE, WAFER PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND WAFER TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING METHODFebruary 2022November 2025Abandon4510NoNo
17665019SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHODFebruary 2022October 2025Allow4431NoNo
17592095THREE-DIMENSIONAL ASYMMETRICAL VERTICAL TRANSISTOR ARCHITECTURESFebruary 2022December 2025Abandon4621YesNo
17589329SMALL GRAIN SIZE POLYSILICON ENGINEERING FOR THRESHOLD VOLTAGE MISMATCH IMPROVEMENTJanuary 2022September 2025Allow4331NoNo
17496045Methods for Three-Dimensional CMOS Integrated Circuit FormationOctober 2021October 2025Abandon4931NoNo
17345369HYBRID MANUFACTURING WITH MODIFIED VIA-LAST PROCESSJune 2021February 2025Allow4411YesNo
17339160GATE ALIGNED FIN CUT FOR ADVANCED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT STRUCTURE FABRICATIONJune 2021September 2025Allow5111NoNo
17328034INORGANIC REDISTRIBUTION LAYER ON ORGANIC SUBSTRATE IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGESMay 2021November 2025Allow5321YesNo
17289570THIN-FILM TRANSISTORApril 2021March 2025Allow4621YesNo
16471784P-TYPE SIC EPITAXIAL WAFER AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFORJune 2019August 2025Allow6081YesYes
16423928OPTIMIZING NEUROSYNAPTIC NETWORKSMay 2019March 2020Allow900NoNo
16108106STATIC MEMORY CELL CAPABLE OF BALANCING BIT LINE LEAKAGE CURRENTSAugust 2018June 2019Allow1000NoNo
16034848ELECTRONIC DEVICE PERFORMING TRAINING ON MEMORY DEVICE BY RANK UNIT AND TRAINING METHOD THEREOFJuly 2018October 2019Allow1510NoNo
15950210SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SENSOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEApril 2018May 2019Allow1310NoNo
15848789IMPLEMENTING DRAM REFRESH POWER OPTIMIZATION DURING LONG IDLE MODEDecember 2017January 2019Allow1310NoNo
15792839SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND REFRESH RATE CONTROL METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE BASED ON MEASURED TEMPERATUREOctober 2017November 2018Allow1310NoNo
15458965SIMULTANEOUS WRITE, READ, AND COMMAND-ADDRESS-CONTROL CALIBRATION OF AN INTERFACE WITHIN A CIRCUITMarch 2017May 2018Allow1410YesNo
15444723DETERMINATION OF A READ VOLTAGE TO BE APPLIED TO A PAGE BASED ON READ VOLTAGES OF OTHER PAGESFebruary 2017March 2018Allow1210NoNo
15269851METHOD FOR ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF LEAKY CAPACITORS USING CHARGE BASED CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENTSSeptember 2016December 2017Allow1510YesNo
15217739MEMRISTOR ACCESS TRANSISTOR CONTROLLED NON-VOLATILE MEMORY PROGRAMMING METHODSJuly 2016June 2017Allow1110NoNo
15216652Methods of Reading Six-Transistor Cross-Coupled Thyristor-Based SRAM Memory CellsJuly 2016March 2017Allow810NoNo
15111703STORING RUN-LENGTH LIMITED TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENCODED BIT PATTERNS IN MEMORY ARRAYSJuly 2016June 2018Allow2310NoNo
15104809STORAGE ELEMENT WITH STORAGE AND CLOCK TREE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND METHODS THEREFORJune 2016January 2017Allow700NoNo
15183239AUTOMATIC BUILT-IN SELF TEST FOR MEMORY ARRAYSJune 2016March 2017Allow910NoNo
15084639MULTI-MATCH ERROR DETECTION IN CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY TESTINGMarch 2016February 2017Allow1110YesNo
15046176CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT PERFORMS A FEEDBACK CONTROL OPERATION TO CONTROL AN OBJECTFebruary 2016June 2019Allow4030NoNo
15013897TIMED SENSE AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS AND METHODS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORYFebruary 2016December 2017Allow2230NoNo
14904979IMPROVED SRAM STORAGE UNIT BASED ON DICE STRUCTUREJanuary 2016August 2016Allow700NoNo
14971636SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING CIRCUIT CONFIGURED TO BE IN RESTING STATEDecember 2015March 2018Allow2710NoNo
14924891MODULAR MEASUREMENT APPARATUSOctober 2015January 2019Allow3930NoNo
14921245DETECTION OF INITIAL STATE BY EFUSE ARRAYOctober 2015May 2016Allow600NoNo
14878174PRIORITIZING REFRESHES IN A MEMORY DEVICEOctober 2015May 2016Allow710NoNo
14870990IMPLEMENTATIONS OF, AND METHODS OF USE FOR A PATTERN MEMORY ENGINE APPLYING ASSOCIATIVE PATTERN MEMORY FOR PATTERN RECOGNITIONSeptember 2015April 2019Allow4210NoNo
14862636NEGATIVE SUPPLY RAIL POSITIVE BOOST WRITE-ASSIST CIRCUITS FOR MEMORY BIT CELLS EMPLOYING A P-TYPE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (PFET) WRITE PORT(S), AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODSSeptember 2015October 2017Allow2531NoNo
14861951Adaptive Operation of 3D NAND MemorySeptember 2015March 2016Allow600NoNo
14740186SIX-TRANSISTOR THYRISTOR SRAM CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF OPERATIONJune 2015June 2016Allow1210NoNo
14740209WRITE ASSIST THYRISTOR-BASED SRAM CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF OPERATIONJune 2015May 2018Abandon3521NoNo
14726636A RESISTANCE CHANGE NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEMORY DEVICE AND METHODJune 2015May 2016Allow1210YesNo
14723491APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSE AMPLIFYINGMay 2015April 2016Allow1110YesNo
14715579SETTING CHANNEL VOLTAGES OF ADJUSTABLE RESISTANCE BIT LINE STRUCTURES USING DUMMY WORD LINESMay 2015May 2016Allow1210NoNo
14429249RESISTANCE CHANGE NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAMEMarch 2015February 2016Allow1140YesNo
14639723COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH CROWD PREDICTION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOFMarch 2015December 2019Allow5750NoNo
14590834CROSS-COUPLED THYRISTOR SRAM CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF OPERATIONJanuary 2015May 2016Allow1710NoNo
14404002DIFFERENTIAL WRITING FOR LIFE EXTENSION OF PORTIONS OF A MEMORY DEVICENovember 2014December 2016Allow2510YesNo
14493675SWITCH AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE SWITCHSeptember 2014February 2016Allow1710NoNo
14493353PERFORMANCE BASED POWER MANAGEMENT OF A MEMORY AND A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE MEMORYSeptember 2014October 2015Allow1210NoNo
14139411REFERENCE VOLTAGE SETTING CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DATA CHANNEL IN MEMORY SYSTEMDecember 2013May 2016Allow2920NoNo
14020583NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFSeptember 2013August 2015Allow2410NoNo
13965031LOW-VOLTAGE FAST-WRITE PMOS NVSRAM CELLAugust 2013July 2015Allow2310NoNo
13895127METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SURFACE MOUNTING A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICEMay 2013June 2015Allow2710NoNo
13889649PRIORITIZING REFRESHES IN A MEMORY DEVICEMay 2013September 2015Allow2811YesNo
13855155STORAGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHODApril 2013June 2015Allow2700NoNo
13745711CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR PROGRAMMING VARIABLE IMPEDANCE ELEMENTSJanuary 2013October 2014Allow2100NoNo
13729065APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSE AMPLIFYINGDecember 2012February 2015Allow2610NoNo
13605779NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND READING METHOD THEREOFSeptember 2012November 2014Allow2610NoNo
13600911SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAMEAugust 2012November 2014Allow2610NoNo
13588043MEMORY DEVICE HAVING COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TO REDUCE NOISEAugust 2012February 2014Allow1800NoNo
13586155COLUMN SELECT SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUITAugust 2012January 2015Allow2920NoNo
13557179PROGRAMMABLE READ-ONLY MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF WRITING THE SAMEJuly 2012July 2014Allow2310NoNo
13463961SWITCH AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE SWITCHMay 2012May 2014Allow2501NoNo
13370661NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICEFebruary 2012July 2014Allow2910NoNo
13316293SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE GENERATING INTERNAL VOLTAGEDecember 2011July 2014Allow3110NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner OJHA, AJAY.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
1
Allowed After Appeal Filing
1
(100.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
98.1%
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 OJHA, AJAY - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner OJHA, AJAY works in Art Unit 2898 and has examined 58 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 96.6%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 23 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner OJHA, AJAY's allowance rate of 96.6% places them in the 87% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by OJHA, AJAY receive 1.33 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 19% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by OJHA, AJAY is 23 months. This places the examiner in the 87% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by OJHA, AJAY. This interview benefit is in the 28% 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, 30.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 59% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 27.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 38% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 95% percentile among all examiners. 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, 40.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 28% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments less often than average. You may need to make most claim amendments yourself.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 34% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may 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:

  • 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.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

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