Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

KDDI Corporation

20 pending office actions • 15 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

10
Hard (50%)
10
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (5%)
§103 only7 (35%)
§102 only3 (15%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (45%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
65% of docket
5
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 1 79.5% +26.6%
XU, XIAOLAN 1 74.0% +13.7%
GADOMSKI, STEFAN J 1 76.6% +7.1%
BOYLAN, JAMES T 1 63.0% +11.3%
HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 1 83.1% +15.6%
FEREJA, SAMUEL D 1 75.1% +11.5%
CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J 1 75.4% +13.4%
DONADO, FRANK E 1 69.5% +59.0%
VO, DON NGUYEN 1 90.4% +0.7%
LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 1 81.8% -3.3%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18600940 CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL IN CELL-FREE MASSIVE MIMO SYSTEM COMPOSED OF MANY ANTENNAS, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM VO, DON NGUYEN 9d overdue
19013282 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 19d

Hard Cases (10)

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
18430721 TERMINAL DEVICE FOR REDUCING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LATENCY, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PANCHOLI, RINA C 25d overdue
18104441 OPERATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES 15d overdue
18435602 TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SUPPRESSING INFLUENCE OF INTERFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION IN ADJACENT FREQUENCY BAND JAHANGIR, KABIR U 22d
19061106 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM GADOMSKI, STEFAN J 28d
18435617 TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SUPPRESSING INFLUENCE OF INTERFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION IN ADJACENT FREQUENCY BAND KARIKARI, KWASI 28d
18435625 BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REDUCING LATENCY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PHUNG, LUAT 48d
19013220 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J
18883810 BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EFFICIENT TRACKING DONADO, FRANK E

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19013332 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FEREJA, SAMUEL D 44d overdue
19061192 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 16d overdue
19013282 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 19d
19061171 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM XU, XIAOLAN 23d
19059564 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM BOYLAN, JAMES T
19013220 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J
18883810 BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EFFICIENT TRACKING DONADO, FRANK E

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2487 3
2485 2
2668 2
2488 1
2486 1
2425 1
2634 1
2669 1
2464 1
2468 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19061192 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 2487 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2025
19061171 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM XU, XIAOLAN 2488 §102 Final Rejection 23d Pending Feb 24, 2025
19061106 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM GADOMSKI, STEFAN J 2485 §103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 24, 2025
19059564 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM BOYLAN, JAMES T 2486 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Feb 21, 2025
19013282 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jan 08, 2025
19013332 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FEREJA, SAMUEL D 2487 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2025
19013220 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH ENCODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J 2425 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2025
18883810 BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EFFICIENT TRACKING DONADO, FRANK E §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2024
18600940 CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL IN CELL-FREE MASSIVE MIMO SYSTEM COMPOSED OF MANY ANTENNAS, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM VO, DON NGUYEN 2634 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18595157 POINT CLOUD DECODING DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 2668 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 04, 2024
18594466 POINT CLOUD DECODING DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM ALAVI, AMIR 2668 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18591633 IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE-DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE 2669 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
18435602 TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SUPPRESSING INFLUENCE OF INTERFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION IN ADJACENT FREQUENCY BAND JAHANGIR, KABIR U 2464 §102§103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18435625 BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REDUCING LATENCY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PHUNG, LUAT 2468 §102§103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18435617 TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SUPPRESSING INFLUENCE OF INTERFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION IN ADJACENT FREQUENCY BAND KARIKARI, KWASI 2641 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18430721 TERMINAL DEVICE FOR REDUCING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LATENCY, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PANCHOLI, RINA C 2477 §103§112 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2024
18429764 TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR LOW-LATENCY TIME DIVISION COMMUNICATION BELETE, BERHANU D 2418 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 01, 2024
18292143 ENCRYPTION DEVICE, ENCRYPTION METHOD, AND ENCRYPTION PROGRAM SCOTT, RANDY A 2439 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18394445 IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM KIR, ALBERT 2485 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18104441 OPERATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES 3667 §101§103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2023

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