Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
China Telecom Corporation Limited has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each active matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized unit, preventing any single examiner from controlling the company's entire docket. This diversification can mitigate the risk of a single difficult examiner impacting the whole portfolio.
The busiest examiner, NEFF, MICHAEL R, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is part of the company's 2 pending office actions. Because the portfolio is spread across multiple art units, the company must navigate different examination cultures and technical standards even within the broader Communications field. This separation into distinct examiners and art units suggests that the pending applications may cover different sub-sectors of communication technology. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination timelines across these different units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEFF, MICHAEL R | 1 | 87.5% | +14.5% |
| ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 1 | 80.3% | +15.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681112 | RANDOM ACCESS RESOURCE ISOLATION METHOD FOR ACCESS NETWORK SLICE, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 5d overdue |
| 18871194 | AERONAUTICAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NEFF, MICHAEL R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681112 | RANDOM ACCESS RESOURCE ISOLATION METHOD FOR ACCESS NETWORK SLICE, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 5d overdue |
| 18871194 | AERONAUTICAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NEFF, MICHAEL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| 2465 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18871194 | AERONAUTICAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NEFF, MICHAEL R | 2631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18681112 | RANDOM ACCESS RESOURCE ISOLATION METHOD FOR ACCESS NETWORK SLICE, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 2465 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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