Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

China Mobile Communications Group Co. Ltd.

22 pending office actions • 21 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
2
Due this week
9
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (5)

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 (5%)
20
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only18 (82%)
§102 only2 (9%)
§112 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
73% of docket
5
Communications
23% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HONG, MICHAEL HYUN 1 74.0% +24.1%
SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 1 82.4% +13.0%
DU, ZONGHUA A 1 59.5% +44.7%
NANO, SARGON N 1 81.0% -2.0%
ZOUBAIR, NOURA 1 72.5% +61.6%
BARKER, TODD L 1 75.5% +23.4%
DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 1 49.2% +52.1%
SMITH, COURTNEY L 1 85.4% +11.7%
HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 1 82.2% +25.3%
KARIKARI, KWASI 1 79.9% +6.8%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18708909 Liquid Cooling System SMITH, COURTNEY L 15d
18851249 INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD AND DEVICE, NETWORK DEVICE AND USER EQUIPMENT SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 21d
18682518 PACKET SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 34d

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
18841841 IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NANO, SARGON N 14d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18702926 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM ZOUBAIR, NOURA 8d
18703752 MESSAGE SEGMENTED PARSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BARKER, TODD L 14d
18718282 AUTHENTICATION AND/OR KEY MANAGEMENT METHOD, FIRST DEVICE, TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 14d
18708909 Liquid Cooling System SMITH, COURTNEY L 15d
18851249 INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD AND DEVICE, NETWORK DEVICE AND USER EQUIPMENT SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 21d
18844540 Routing Method and System, and Storage Medium DU, ZONGHUA A 22d
18682518 PACKET SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 34d
18856973 VIDEO SYNTHESIS METHOD BASED ON SURROUND VIEWING ANGLE, CONTROLLER AND STORAGE MEDIUM HONG, MICHAEL HYUN 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2444 2
2426 1
2453 1
2443 1
2434 1
2449 1
2498 1
2835 1
2641 1
2634 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18856973 VIDEO SYNTHESIS METHOD BASED ON SURROUND VIEWING ANGLE, CONTROLLER AND STORAGE MEDIUM HONG, MICHAEL HYUN 2426 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18851249 INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD AND DEVICE, NETWORK DEVICE AND USER EQUIPMENT SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18844540 Routing Method and System, and Storage Medium DU, ZONGHUA A 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18841841 IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NANO, SARGON N 2443 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 27, 2024
18702926 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM ZOUBAIR, NOURA 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18703752 MESSAGE SEGMENTED PARSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BARKER, TODD L 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18718282 AUTHENTICATION AND/OR KEY MANAGEMENT METHOD, FIRST DEVICE, TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18708909 Liquid Cooling System SMITH, COURTNEY L 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 09, 2024
18682518 PACKET SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 2444 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18681596 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING PAGING MESSAGE, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING PAGING MESSAGE KARIKARI, KWASI 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 06, 2024
18294364 NETWORK ELEMENT SELECTION METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUSES, AND NETWORK ELEMENT VO, DON NGUYEN 2634 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18293338 SIGNAL OR CHANNEL DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HONG, DUNG 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18292467 Communication Method, and Base Station LY, ANH VU H 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
18577784 BEAM SENDING METHOD, DEVICE, BASE STATION, TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAI, WAYNE HUU 2644 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18574902 INFORMATION ADVERTISEMENT METHOD, CONTROLLER AND STORAGE MEDIUM BURGESS, GLENTON B 2454 §112 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18549455 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING SEMI-STATIC HARQ CODEBOOK, APPARATUS AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM LI, GUANG W 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18260988 SERVICE TRANSMISSION METHOD, SERVICE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, SERVICE TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM RANDHAWA, MANDISH K 2477 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18040696 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION, RECEIVING, CONFIGURATION, SENDING METHOD, RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H 2474 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
17920892 DATA PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17904478 TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE KWOH, JASPER C 2415 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Aug 17, 2022
17760147 INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE ADHAMI, MOHAMMAD SAJID 2471 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2022
15733708 INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, DEVICE, NETWORK DEVICE AND TERMINAL REGO, DOMINIC E 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 68d Pending Sep 30, 2020

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