Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
118 pending office actions • 40 art units • 109 examiners • 0 of 118 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 191 patents granted in the last 365 days
Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. has a substantial prosecution profile with 100 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 95 distinct examiners, which indicates a high level of individual attention required for each case. The portfolio is also technically diverse, spanning 40 distinct art units across the USPTO.
BEYEN, ZEWDU A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 pending cases. Given that there are 100 pending office actions and 95 distinct examiners, the vast majority of examiners are only handling a single case for the company. This distribution means that practitioners cannot rely on building a rapport with a few key examiners to move the bulk of the portfolio forward. Instead, they must manage 95 different relationships and examination styles.
The presence of 40 distinct art units highlights the complexity of the Networking & Security technologies being patented. Practitioners must be adept at navigating the specific guidelines and precedents of 40 different technical groups. With 100 pending office actions, the administrative and legal workload is significant, and the decentralized nature of having 95 distinct examiners means that successful outcomes will require a wide variety of technical and legal arguments tailored to each specific case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 32 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 32 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (7%) |
| §103 only | 43 (36%) |
| §102 only | 18 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 47 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEYEN, ZEWDU A | 2 | 83.5% | +14.9% |
| PARK, CHONGSUH | 2 | 59.8% | +18.2% |
| HAMPTON, TARELL A | 2 | 86.2% | +10.2% |
| KIM, SUN JONG | 2 | 80.2% | +34.7% |
| TRAN, THINH D | 2 | 62.3% | +19.6% |
| EMADI, MARYAM NMN | 2 | 82.5% | +22.6% |
| SCHLACK, SCOTT A | 2 | 49.3% | +29.0% |
| WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 2 | 63.6% | +14.7% |
| KWOH, JASPER C | 2 | 64.0% | +12.0% |
| CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 1 | 77.8% | +32.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040821 | TRANSMISSION FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | EMADI, MARYAM NMN | 20d |
| 18572724 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR RECEIVING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION, AND DEVICE | KIM, SUN JONG | 69d |
| 18867012 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACTIVATING PARTIAL RESOURCES OF CELL | BEYEN, ZEWDU A | — |
| 18555249 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING CASCADING OF UCI, TERMINAL AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE | EMADI, MARYAM NMN | — |
| 18552073 | INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD, NETWORK SIDE CONFIGURATION METHOD, DEVICE, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BEYEN, ZEWDU A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681680 | DRX COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 30d overdue |
| 18261921 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICE | SMITH, JOSHUA Y | 5d |
| 17798451 | DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | FAN, GUOXING | 6d |
| 18681082 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BUFFER DATA STATE INFORMATION OF SECONDARY CELL GROUP | LA, PHONG | 12d |
| 17928062 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | VIDAL CARPIO, MARIELA | 12d |
| 18572784 | GROUP HANDOVER METHOD, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HAMPTON, TARELL A | 15d |
| 18559660 | POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS | JAIN, SWATI | 27d |
| 18553537 | PARTIAL SENSING METHOD AND PARTIAL SENSING DEVICE FOR SIDELINK RESOURCE | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 29d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456384 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATION | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 9d overdue |
| 18020083 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 4d overdue |
| 17630121 | UCI TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHODS, DEVICE, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM | TRAN, THINH D | 8d |
| 18572784 | GROUP HANDOVER METHOD, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HAMPTON, TARELL A | 15d |
| 18040821 | TRANSMISSION FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | EMADI, MARYAM NMN | 20d |
| 17419041 | DCI TRANSMISSION METHOD, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | KWOH, JASPER C | 61d |
| 18572724 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR RECEIVING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION, AND DEVICE | KIM, SUN JONG | 69d |
| 19126216 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION INTERACTION | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2469 | 7 |
| 2478 | 6 |
| 2476 | 4 |
| 2415 | 4 |
| 2646 | 3 |
| 2643 | 3 |
| 2471 | 3 |
| 2466 | 3 |
| 2418 | 3 |
| 2477 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19126216 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION INTERACTION | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18998228 | POSITIONING METHOD, TERMINAL, NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE, LMF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL | 2646 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18872781 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION, DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BHATTACHARYA, SAM | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18871943 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING BEAM INFORMATION | ALI, SHAWKAT M | 2633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18869254 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DYNAMIC CODEBOOK, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | ADHAMI, MOHAMMAD SAJID | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18868277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE FALLBACK, TERMINAL AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18867012 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACTIVATING PARTIAL RESOURCES OF CELL | BEYEN, ZEWDU A | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18866937 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VO, DON NGUYEN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18865672 | POSITIONING INTEGRITY DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HONG, DUNG | 2643 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18862501 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SANTOS, FRANCESCA LIMA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18861599 | CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHAH, SAUMIT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18861219 | BEAM INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND REPEATER, HOST BASE STATION AND STORAGE MEDIUM | THOMPSON, JR, OTIS L | 2469 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18861211 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, DEVICE AND NETWORK APPARATUS | AGUREYEV, VLADISLAV Y | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18861202 | INFORMATION DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | CHAKRAVARTHY, LATHA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860632 | MEASUREMENT FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARK, CHONGSUH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2024 |
| 18860615 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING OVERLAPPING PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNELS, TERMINAL AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE | NGUYEN, THAI | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18859636 | SIGNAL SENDING METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, SIGNAL SENDING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARK, JUNG H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18858750 | METADATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | 2632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18858333 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FENNER, RAENITA ANN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18858723 | METHOD OF OBTAINING MULTICAST CONFIGURATION INFORMATION, APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE | KRUEGER, KENT K | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18858717 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, NETWORK SIDE DEVICE AND TERMINAL | ZHAO, YONGHONG | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18858720 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE | VO, ERIC MINHSANG | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18858739 | METHOD FOR REDUCING POSITIONING POWER CONSUMPTION, NETWORK ELEMENT, TERMINAL, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18858165 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, NETWORK SIDE DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | HARLEY, JASON A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18858301 | NETWORK ACCESS METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | HUYNH, NAM TRUNG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18857589 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RADIO LINK MANAGEMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT | BELUR, DEEPA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18857787 | METHOD FOR HANDLING CONSISTENT LBT FAILURE, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE | AHMED, ABDULLAHI | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18855327 | RESOURCE SCHEDULING METHOD, DEVICE, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LU, XUAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18855299 | RESOURCE SELECTION METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KHIRODHAR, MAHARISHI V | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18855253 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND TERMINAL FOR TRANSMITTING POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS | HUQ, OBAIDUL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18853131 | TRANSMISSION PROCESSING METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, TERMINAL, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SAMPAT, RUSHIL PARIMAL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18853216 | CARRIER SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE | NG, CHRISTINE Y | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18853122 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION OF DIRECT COMMUNICATION INTERFACE IN RELAY SCENARIO AND DEVICE THEREOF | ETIENNE, CAMILLE JORDAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18851944 | POSITIONING METHOD, APPARATUS, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICE | NGUYEN, JOSEPH KHANH | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18851347 | CARRIER SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE | SHARMA, GAUTAM | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18848130 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHAU, PETER P | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18848115 | REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LOPATA, ROBERT J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18844978 | POSITIONING METHOD, APPARATUS, TERMINAL, NETWORK SIDE DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TAYLOR, BARRY W | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18261273 | DMRS BUNDLING WINDOW DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, WON TAE C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18840619 | NETWORK ANALYSIS METHOD, FUNCTION ENTITY, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FIGUEROA, MARISOL | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18837183 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 2469 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18833923 | NETWORK ENERGY SAVING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, YEWON | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18832939 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE | TAHA, SHUKRI ABDALLAH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18728448 | UCI TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, NETWORK DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18725745 | INFORMATION DETERMINING-CONFIGURING METHOD, DEVICE, USER EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK DEVICE | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18723412 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM | CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18722842 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION, RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE AND NETWORK DEVICE | THAI, CAMQUYEN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18721642 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, KHAI MINH | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18720625 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, TERMINAL, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARK, CHONGSUH | 2478 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2024 |
| 18718811 | SIDELINK POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SIDELINK POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS | PARK, JEONG S | 2454 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDatang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. has 118 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 40 art units and 109 examiners.
Zewdu A Beyen has the most, with 2 of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.