Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

1Finity Inc.

20 pending office actions • 17 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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%)
20
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only17 (85%)
§102 only3 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
80% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
2
Semiconductors
10% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2 34.6% -8.3%
RASHID, MOMINUR 1
BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 1 20.0% +37.3%
MITCHELL, NATHAN A 1 73.3% +10.5%
WANG, YAOTANG 1 79.7% +16.2%
KO, SITHU 1 86.4% +15.8%
RENNER, BRANDON M 1 81.5% +20.6%
WONG, XAVIER S 1 87.9% +10.2%
NGUYEN, THE HY 1 74.2% +32.4%
PINERO, JOSE E 1 89.2% +7.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18457671 SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY, AMPLIFICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE PINERO, JOSE E 56d overdue
18426603 BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD RENNER, BRANDON M 60d
18430049 BEAM FAILURE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS KO, SITHU 84d
18372189 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WONG, XAVIER S 84d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18668694 SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD AND APPARATUSES THEREOF BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18627862 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD MITCHELL, NATHAN A 7d
18430011 SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM WANG, YAOTANG 57d
18369243 BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD NGUYEN, THE HY 57d
18426603 BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD RENNER, BRANDON M 60d
18430049 BEAM FAILURE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS KO, SITHU 84d
18372189 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WONG, XAVIER S 84d
18668694 SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD AND APPARATUSES THEREOF BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2411 2
2478 2
2471 2
2469 1
2419 1
3627 1
2409 1
2414 1
2415 1
2843 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18777732 ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS AND SYSTEM RASHID, MOMINUR 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18668694 SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD AND APPARATUSES THEREOF BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2024
18627862 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD MITCHELL, NATHAN A 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18430011 SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM WANG, YAOTANG 2409 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18430049 BEAM FAILURE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS KO, SITHU 2414 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18426603 BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD RENNER, BRANDON M 2411 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18372189 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WONG, XAVIER S 2415 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18369243 BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD NGUYEN, THE HY 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18457671 SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY, AMPLIFICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE PINERO, JOSE E 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18220345 INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS DONADO, FRANK E 2641 §102 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18133829 SIDELINK DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS JIANG, CHARLES C 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 12, 2023
18105025 Relay Selection Method and Apparatus and System KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Feb 02, 2023
18087143 TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD HARLEY, JASON A 2468 §102 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18065177 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ALAM, MOHAMMED R 2897 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18076462 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SMARTH, GERALD A 2478 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022
17959700 COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IDENTIFIER DETERMINATION METHOD FAN, GUOXING 2462 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Oct 04, 2022
17957272 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17956094 SIDELINK TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS ROUDANI, OUSSAMA 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17888576 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGUYEN, LIEM HONG 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 16, 2022
17148072 RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND DATA RECEPTION METHOD, APPARATUSES THEREOF AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGUYEN, CHUONG M 2411 §102 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jan 13, 2021

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