Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

33 pending office actions • 30 art units • 33 examiners • 0 of 33 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

33
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

24
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (24)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (3)

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.

1
Hard (3%)
29
Medium (88%)
3
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§103 only27 (82%)
§102 only2 (6%)
§112 only3 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
23
Information Tech
70% of docket
2
Communications
6% of docket
3
Semiconductors
9% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
2
Business / Other
6% 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.

330 h
Manual time on pending OAs
66 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
115 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FIELDS, COURTNEY D 1 84.2% -4.6%
HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 1 84.1% +4.0%
CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 1 86.7% +6.3%
GEBRESENBET, DINKU W 1 71.0% +34.6%
POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 1 47.4% +81.8%
IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 1 71.2% +19.0%
ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 1 79.5% +3.1%
JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE 1 67.9% +22.9%
SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 1 87.3% +12.4%
GE, JIN 1 79.8% +17.9%

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
18912141 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 22d overdue
18851028 DATA TRANSMISSION CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 36d
18723142 ATTESTATION METHODS SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 39d
18870570 SCALABLE, CONTEXT-BASED ANONYMISATION OF SENSOR DATA FIELDS, COURTNEY D 43d

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
18248281 IMPROVEMENTS TO QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION LE, JOHN H 8d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18851014 SUBJECT MONITORING GEBRESENBET, DINKU W 100d overdue
18721533 GENERATION OF DIGITAL TERRAIN GE, JIN 89d overdue
18845199 SECURITY METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING KILL CHAINS POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 28d overdue
18723142 ATTESTATION METHODS SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 39d
18842712 DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE AGENTS FOR MANAGING A DECENTRALISED PEER-TO-PEER STORAGE NETWORK JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE 56d
18844729 CONTACT RATES IN MALWARE SIMULATION FOR RESPONSIVE MEASURE DEPLOYMENT IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2436 2
3992 2
2425 2
2444 1
2164 1
2494 1
2441 1
3699 1
2499 1
2619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18870570 SCALABLE, CONTEXT-BASED ANONYMISATION OF SENSOR DATA FIELDS, COURTNEY D 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Nov 29, 2024
18912141 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 3992 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2024
18851028 DATA TRANSMISSION CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 2444 §112 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18851014 SUBJECT MONITORING GEBRESENBET, DINKU W 2164 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18845199 SECURITY METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING KILL CHAINS POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18844729 CONTACT RATES IN MALWARE SIMULATION FOR RESPONSIVE MEASURE DEPLOYMENT IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 2494 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18844731 DETERMINING A REPRODUCTION NUMBER FOR A MALWARE ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2441 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18842712 DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE AGENTS FOR MANAGING A DECENTRALISED PEER-TO-PEER STORAGE NETWORK JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE 3699 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18723142 ATTESTATION METHODS SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 2499 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18721533 GENERATION OF DIGITAL TERRAIN GE, JIN 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18716567 NETWORK PATH VERIFICATION CRIBBS, MALCOLM 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18716425 USER PERSONALITY TRAITS CLASSIFICATION FOR ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN NON-LINEAR STORY PATHS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 3715 §102 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18683348 A METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PERFORMANCE TEST IN AN ACCESS NETWORK VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA 2468 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2024
18574649 ENCLOSURE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS CABLES NGUYEN, CHAU N 2841 §103 Final Rejection 110d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18574644 NETWORK SECURITY DAILEY, THOMAS J 2458 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18555083 NETWORK PROTECTION BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18551710 WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK VOGEL, JAY L. 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2023
18262601 PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18261712 HANDOVER OF A GROUP OF USER EQUIPMENT WITH INDIVIDUAL ACCESS REQUEST GENACK, MATTHEW W 2645 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18258183 METHOD OF CONTROLLING A RADIO ACCESS POINT BELETE, BERHANU D 2418 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18256438 INTRUSION RESPONSE DETERMINATION HAILU, TESHOME 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2023
18255637 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 133d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18251477 MANUFACTURER CLONEABLE PHYSICAL UNCLONEABLE FUNCTIONS KIM, PAUL D 3729 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18250904 APPORTIONING OF DATA TRAFFIC BETWEEN COMMUNICATION CHANNELS TOKUTA, SHEAN S 2446 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18248281 IMPROVEMENTS TO QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION LE, JOHN H 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
18247346 PROVISION OF MEDIA CONTENT LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18247121 MALWARE INFECTION MITIGATION OF CRITICAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS COLIN, CARL G 2493 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Mar 29, 2023
18247128 INTERNET OF THINGS SECURITY HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
17926481 DELIVERY OF MEDIA CONTENT LIN, JASON K 2425 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
18053051 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION LIE, ANGELA M 3992 §112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17995199 FORCE-DIRECTED GRAPH LAYOUT WAJE, CARLO C 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17906365 MODELING PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
17310016 PROBABILISTIC SHARED SECRET VALIDATION NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 2438 §103 Final Rejection 181d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2021

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