Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

28 pending office actions • 22 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

13
Hard (46%)
13
Medium (46%)
2
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§101 + other8 (29%)
§103 only13 (46%)
§112 only2 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
57% of docket
2
Communications
7% of docket
2
Semiconductors
7% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
6
Business / Other
21% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HO, DAO Q 1 83.1% +32.3%
BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 75.3% +12.6%
HUYNH, THANG GIA 1 79.5% +41.0%
LE, THANH T 1 83.3% +32.0%
FIELDS, COURTNEY D 1 84.0% -3.8%
CHOY, KA SHAN 1 93.4% +9.3%
HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 1 83.7% +5.2%
SHIN, KYUNG H 1 82.0% +10.5%
CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER 1 100.0% +0.0%
ISMAIL, OMAR S 1 91.3% +10.0%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18912141 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 22d overdue
18881977 IMPROVEMENTS TO QKD ARRANGEMENTS LE, THANH T
18850779 CONTENT DELIVERY SHIN, KYUNG H
18850344 MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME PROVISIONING CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER
18850024 OPERATING OPTICAL NETWORKS ISMAIL, OMAR S

Hard Cases (13)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18262601 PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN 147d overdue
18255637 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 133d overdue
18845199 SECURITY METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING KILL CHAINS POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 28d overdue
18716425 USER PERSONALITY TRAITS CLASSIFICATION FOR ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN NON-LINEAR STORY PATHS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 22d overdue
17995199 FORCE-DIRECTED GRAPH LAYOUT WAJE, CARLO C 19d overdue
18248281 IMPROVEMENTS TO QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION LE, JOHN H 8d overdue
18683348 A METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PERFORMANCE TEST IN AN ACCESS NETWORK VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA 4d overdue
18870570 SCALABLE, CONTEXT-BASED ANONYMISATION OF SENSOR DATA FIELDS, COURTNEY D 43d

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
19138556 ENCRYPTION SELECTION HO, DAO Q
19133674 AUTHENTICATION FOR DEVICE SECURITY BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J
19102085 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF A TARGET HUYNH, THANG GIA
18881977 IMPROVEMENTS TO QKD ARRANGEMENTS LE, THANH T
18850779 CONTENT DELIVERY SHIN, KYUNG H
18850024 OPERATING OPTICAL NETWORKS ISMAIL, OMAR S

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2436 2
3992 2
2432 1
2439 1
2495 1
2435 1
2447 1
2635 1
3699 1
2455 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19138556 ENCRYPTION SELECTION HO, DAO Q 2432 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2025
19133674 AUTHENTICATION FOR DEVICE SECURITY BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 28, 2025
19102085 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF A TARGET HUYNH, THANG GIA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2025
18881977 IMPROVEMENTS TO QKD ARRANGEMENTS LE, THANH T 2495 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 07, 2025
18870570 SCALABLE, CONTEXT-BASED ANONYMISATION OF SENSOR DATA FIELDS, COURTNEY D 2436 §102§103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Nov 29, 2024
18863955 OPTICAL PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS CHOY, KA SHAN 2435 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18912141 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 3992 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2024
18850779 CONTENT DELIVERY SHIN, KYUNG H 2447 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 25, 2024
18850344 MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME PROVISIONING CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2024
18850024 OPERATING OPTICAL NETWORKS ISMAIL, OMAR S 2635 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2024
18849288 SENSOR EVALUATION WILLIAMS, JAMEL E §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18845199 SECURITY METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING KILL CHAINS POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 2436 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18842712 DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE AGENTS FOR MANAGING A DECENTRALISED PEER-TO-PEER STORAGE NETWORK JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE 3699 §102§103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18729089 METHOD OF OPERATING A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK KIM, SUN JONG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 15, 2024
18718355 SERVICE PROVISION SISON, JUNE Y 2455 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2024
18717864 CONTENT DELIVERY SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 2459 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2024
18716425 USER PERSONALITY TRAITS CLASSIFICATION FOR ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN NON-LINEAR STORY PATHS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 3715 §101§102 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18713439 COMPOSITE APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 24, 2024
18683348 A METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PERFORMANCE TEST IN AN ACCESS NETWORK VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA 2468 §101§103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2024
18574644 NETWORK SECURITY DAILEY, THOMAS J 2458 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18262601 PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN 2416 §102§103 Final Rejection 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
18255637 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 2858 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 133d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18248281 IMPROVEMENTS TO QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION LE, JOHN H 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 07, 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 §112Other Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17995199 FORCE-DIRECTED GRAPH LAYOUT WAJE, CARLO C 2151 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17907379 CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK KWOH, JASPER C 2415 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2022

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