Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kddi Research Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so no examiner or art-unit concentration is shown.
BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. A coordinated technical position remains useful, but each response should be tailored to its separate examination assignment.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 1 | 88.9% | +13.3% |
| TRAN, PHUC H | 1 | 91.7% | +2.6% |
| MILLER, SHAWN D | 1 | 95.7% | +6.0% |
| CHERY, DADY | 1 | 88.0% | +9.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18589667 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, REPEATER APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CHERY, DADY | 26d |
| 18897281 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATION CONTROL WITH CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | — |
| 18780123 | BASE STATION SYSTEM, UNIT AND CONTROL APPARATUS OF BASE STATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD PERFORMED BY BASE STATION SYSTEM | TRAN, PHUC H | — |
| 18589626 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, REPEATER APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MILLER, SHAWN D | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897281 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATION CONTROL WITH CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2414 | 1 |
| 2471 | 1 |
| 2412 | 1 |
| 2418 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18897281 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATION CONTROL WITH CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 2414 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18780123 | BASE STATION SYSTEM, UNIT AND CONTROL APPARATUS OF BASE STATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD PERFORMED BY BASE STATION SYSTEM | TRAN, PHUC H | 2471 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18589626 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, REPEATER APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MILLER, SHAWN D | 2412 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18589667 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, REPEATER APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CHERY, DADY | 2418 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialKddi Research Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Samuel Roberge Bettendorf has the most, with 1 of Kddi Research Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
