Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kddi Research Inc. is currently addressing 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The concentration in 2 distinct art units suggests that while multiple examiners are involved, the technical scope is relatively focused. Because each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must manage multiple sets of examiner expectations and prosecution styles simultaneously.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's networking innovations are being reviewed by more than one specialized technical group at the USPTO. This distribution means that the prosecution risk is spread across different administrative units, rather than being concentrated in a single art unit. For practitioners, this requires a strategy that can adapt to the specific precedents and examination standards of the 2 distinct art units involved. With the workload split among 4 distinct examiners, the company's immediate patenting success is not dependent on any single individual, but rather on the outcomes of independent review processes. This lack of examiner concentration can lead to varying timelines for the pending office actions currently in the pipeline.
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 | 94.1% | +7.1% |
| TRAN, PHUC H | 1 | 91.7% | +2.5% |
| MILLER, SHAWN D | 1 | 95.6% | +6.2% |
| CHERY, DADY | 1 | 88.0% | +9.3% |
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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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 | — | §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 |
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