Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Level 3 Communications LLC

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (75%)
§102 only3 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
83% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GADALLA, HANY S 1 72.7% +37.8%
RASHID, ISHRAT 1 58.4% +18.5%
LWIN, MAUNG T 1 89.2% +20.7%
SONG, HOSUK 1 94.8% +2.7%
MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S 1 86.2% -4.4%
MAHMUD, GOLAM 1 60.6% +30.8%
IQBAL, KHAWAR 1 72.9% +29.0%
DEBNATH, SUMAN 1 74.6% +33.7%
OBAID, FATEH M 1 67.9% +35.3%
LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 1 79.0% +13.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18886466 DASHBOARD FOR ALERT STORAGE AND HISTORY (DASH) MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S 8d overdue
18890345 MONITORING AND DETECTION OF FRAUDULENT OR UNAUTHORIZED USE IN TELEPHONE CONFERENCING SYSTEMS OR VOICE NETWORKS. SONG, HOSUK 15d
18913288 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURED NETWORK INFORMATION TRANSMISSION LWIN, MAUNG T 29d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18606300 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROUTING OF INBOUND TOLL-FREE COMMUNICATIONS IQBAL, KHAWAR 125d overdue
18477398 ENHANCED INTAKE OF BANK BAI FILES OBAID, FATEH M 72d overdue
18762590 ENHANCED SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIDE AREA NETWORK OVERLAYS FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS MAHMUD, GOLAM 31d overdue
18919276 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NETWORK FILTERS GADALLA, HANY S 9d overdue
18060426 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIMEOUT SETTING PROPAGATION LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 5d
18425430 NETWORK BASED BLOCKING THREAT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM AND METHODS DEBNATH, SUMAN 28d
18913288 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURED NETWORK INFORMATION TRANSMISSION LWIN, MAUNG T 29d
18914963 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILTERING OF MALICIOUS DNS QUERIES RASHID, ISHRAT 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2495 2
2493 1
2459 1
2435 1
2113 1
2458 1
2643 1
3627 1
2414 1
2449 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18919276 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NETWORK FILTERS GADALLA, HANY S 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2024
18914963 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILTERING OF MALICIOUS DNS QUERIES RASHID, ISHRAT 2459 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18913288 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURED NETWORK INFORMATION TRANSMISSION LWIN, MAUNG T 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Oct 11, 2024
18890345 MONITORING AND DETECTION OF FRAUDULENT OR UNAUTHORIZED USE IN TELEPHONE CONFERENCING SYSTEMS OR VOICE NETWORKS. SONG, HOSUK 2435 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18886466 DASHBOARD FOR ALERT STORAGE AND HISTORY (DASH) MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S 2113 §102 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2024
18762590 ENHANCED SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIDE AREA NETWORK OVERLAYS FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS MAHMUD, GOLAM 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 02, 2024
18606300 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROUTING OF INBOUND TOLL-FREE COMMUNICATIONS IQBAL, KHAWAR 2643 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2024
18425430 NETWORK BASED BLOCKING THREAT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM AND METHODS DEBNATH, SUMAN 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18477398 ENHANCED INTAKE OF BANK BAI FILES OBAID, FATEH M 3627 §102 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18060426 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIMEOUT SETTING PROPAGATION LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 2414 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 30, 2022
17823993 ROBUST NETWORK CONNECTIVITY LEVERAGING EDGE COMPUTE DOAN, HIEN VAN 2449 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17565174 CUSTOMER ACTIVATION ON EDGE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT MENDAYE, KIDEST H 2457 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2021

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