Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Unisoc Communications Technology Co., Ltd. is managing 11 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These 11 pending office actions are assigned to the same number of distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. The prosecution activity is spread across 8 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical footprint within the networking sector. This diversity of examiners means that the company must adapt to many different individual examination styles.
The busiest examiner, TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are many distinct examiners for the matters, the workload is evenly distributed with no single examiner handling more than 1 case. The involvement of these 8 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners are unique, there is some overlap in the administrative units overseeing the matters. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts across the various art units to ensure consistency, even though they are dealing with many distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | 1 | 72.3% | -4.5% |
| KWAK, JAEYOUNG | 1 | 92.0% | +14.3% |
| SOHRAB, MALICK ARIF | 1 | 86.6% | +20.8% |
| NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T | 1 | 90.2% | +5.5% |
| LING, CHHIAN | 1 | 87.2% | +25.6% |
| KIM, HARRY H | 1 | 90.0% | +8.2% |
| GIDADO, RASHEED | 1 | 86.3% | +8.0% |
| ALI, SYED | 1 | 82.7% | +58.2% |
| FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 1 | 82.8% | +19.1% |
| THOMAS, WILFRED | 1 | 77.0% | +29.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560110 | METHOD FOR CHANNEL MONITORING AND TERMINAL | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 28d overdue |
| 18686548 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN RESOURCE SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS | KIM, HARRY H | 8d |
| 18291358 | METHOD OF BANDWIDTH PART (BWP) SWITCHING AND RELATED APPARATUS | GIDADO, RASHEED | 21d |
| 18569363 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRIORITY OF CSI REPORT AND RELATED DEVICES | ALI, SYED | 27d |
| 18852846 | RATE MATCHING METHOD AND RATE MATCHING APPARATUS | KWAK, JAEYOUNG | — |
| 18837763 | MONITORING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18551883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 2d overdue |
| 18996614 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, NETWORK DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE | TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | — |
| 18839050 | METHOD FOR UPLINK PRECODING MATRIX DETERMINATION, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SOHRAB, MALICK ARIF | — |
| 18833548 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LING, CHHIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560110 | METHOD FOR CHANNEL MONITORING AND TERMINAL | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 28d overdue |
| 18569363 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRIORITY OF CSI REPORT AND RELATED DEVICES | ALI, SYED | 27d |
| 18852846 | RATE MATCHING METHOD AND RATE MATCHING APPARATUS | KWAK, JAEYOUNG | — |
| 18839050 | METHOD FOR UPLINK PRECODING MATRIX DETERMINATION, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SOHRAB, MALICK ARIF | — |
| 18833548 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LING, CHHIAN | — |
| 18284626 | SECONDARY CELL ACTIVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICE | THOMAS, WILFRED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2641 | 1 |
| 2418 | 1 |
| 2411 | 1 |
| 2464 | 1 |
| 2463 | 1 |
| 2462 | 1 |
| 2416 | 1 |
| 2414 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996614 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, NETWORK DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE | TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18852846 | RATE MATCHING METHOD AND RATE MATCHING APPARATUS | KWAK, JAEYOUNG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18839050 | METHOD FOR UPLINK PRECODING MATRIX DETERMINATION, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SOHRAB, MALICK ARIF | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18837763 | MONITORING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18833548 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LING, CHHIAN | 2418 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18686548 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN RESOURCE SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS | KIM, HARRY H | 2411 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18291358 | METHOD OF BANDWIDTH PART (BWP) SWITCHING AND RELATED APPARATUS | GIDADO, RASHEED | 2464 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18569363 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRIORITY OF CSI REPORT AND RELATED DEVICES | ALI, SYED | 2463 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18560110 | METHOD FOR CHANNEL MONITORING AND TERMINAL | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 2462 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18284626 | SECONDARY CELL ACTIVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICE | THOMAS, WILFRED | 2416 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18551883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 2414 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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