Technology area: Networking & Security
16 pending office actions • 15 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
BlackBerry Limited currently manages 18 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 17 distinct examiners. The prosecution spans 16 distinct art units, reflecting the technical distribution of the company's Networking & Security filings. This distribution across 16 distinct art units indicates that the company's active matters are subject to the specific standards of those assigned art units at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CLAWSON, STEPHEN J, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 pending office actions for the busiest examiner is part of the total 18 pending office actions. With 17 distinct examiners involved, practitioners managing this portfolio must coordinate across individual examiner preferences. The fact that CLAWSON, STEPHEN J handles this workload highlights the distribution of the current prosecution pipeline. This requires a strategy that accounts for the requirements of the 17 distinct examiners across the 16 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 only | 1 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 11 (69%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEMMA, SAMSON B | 1 | 88.2% | +11.1% |
| LEE, WILSON | 1 | 86.5% | +3.0% |
| TRUONG, KARL DUC | 1 | 64.2% | +34.0% |
| PATEL, HETUL B | 1 | 63.0% | +3.0% |
| CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | 1 | 79.4% | +18.1% |
| TRUONG, LECHI | 1 | 87.2% | +36.7% |
| GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE | 1 | 59.5% | +28.8% |
| POPE, KHARYE | 1 | 66.1% | +21.1% |
| TRAN, JOSHUA VAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CHOI, JISUN | 1 | 60.5% | +61.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991984 | RISK-AWARE ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | LEMMA, SAMSON B | — |
| 18999756 | ANTENNA AND CONTAINER HAVING AN ANTENNA | LEE, WILSON | — |
| 18884356 | SCHEDULING OF THREADS FOR CLUSTERS OF PROCESSORS | TRUONG, LECHI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DECODING FOR CARRIER POWER CONTROL | CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | — |
| 18768876 | SYNTHETIC SENSOR VALIDATION FOR DEPLOYMENT IN VEHICLES | GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE | — |
| 18422566 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC AND AUTOMATIC DEVELOPMENT CONFIGURATION FOR A VEHICLE | TRAN, JOSHUA VAN | — |
| 18128116 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BULK ASSET LEASING | KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991984 | RISK-AWARE ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | LEMMA, SAMSON B | — |
| 18960592 | ANGULAR PRIOR AND DIRECT CODING MODE FOR TREE REPRESENTATION CODING OF A POINT CLOUD | TRUONG, KARL DUC | — |
| 18904152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DECODING FOR CARRIER POWER CONTROL | CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | — |
| 18884356 | SCHEDULING OF THREADS FOR CLUSTERS OF PROCESSORS | TRUONG, LECHI | — |
| 18768876 | SYNTHETIC SENSOR VALIDATION FOR DEPLOYMENT IN VEHICLES | GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE | — |
| 18637843 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLOUD EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE PROFILE | POPE, KHARYE | — |
| 18499741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECOUPLING CHARGING SIGNALS FROM BATTERY SIGNALS | CHOI, JISUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2194 | 2 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2461 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18991984 | RISK-AWARE ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | LEMMA, SAMSON B | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18999756 | ANTENNA AND CONTAINER HAVING AN ANTENNA | LEE, WILSON | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18960592 | ANGULAR PRIOR AND DIRECT CODING MODE FOR TREE REPRESENTATION CODING OF A POINT CLOUD | TRUONG, KARL DUC | 2614 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18907724 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION CHANGES | PATEL, HETUL B | 3992 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18904152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DECODING FOR CARRIER POWER CONTROL | CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | 2461 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18884356 | SCHEDULING OF THREADS FOR CLUSTERS OF PROCESSORS | TRUONG, LECHI | 2194 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18768876 | SYNTHETIC SENSOR VALIDATION FOR DEPLOYMENT IN VEHICLES | GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE | 2194 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18637843 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLOUD EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE PROFILE | POPE, KHARYE | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18422566 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC AND AUTOMATIC DEVELOPMENT CONFIGURATION FOR A VEHICLE | TRAN, JOSHUA VAN | 2192 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18499741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECOUPLING CHARGING SIGNALS FROM BATTERY SIGNALS | CHOI, JISUN | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18477424 | Preserving Emergency Call During Failure to Transfer | TORRES, MARCOS L | 2647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18356397 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDITION OF ASSURANCE INFORMATION TO V2X MESSAGING | PATEL, HARESH N | 2496 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18310720 | DETERMINING SECURITY OF LOCAL AREA NETWORK | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 2499 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18128116 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BULK ASSET LEASING | KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18120177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTRUSION DETECTION FOR AN IN-VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM | KHAN, SHER A | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18100921 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC ACCESS BASED ON GRANTED PERMISSIONS | FIELDS, COURTNEY D | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBlackBerry Limited has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 16 examiners.
Samson B Lemma has the most, with 1 of BlackBerry Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
