Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

MediaTek Inc.

Technology area: Networking & Security

74 pending office actions • 40 art units • 72 examiners • 0 of 74 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 103 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

MediaTek Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 71 pending office actions. These matters are distributed across 39 distinct art units, indicating a technically varied presence in the networking sector. The involvement of 39 distinct art units shows that the company's intellectual property touches on many networking protocols and security systems.

Prosecution is handled by 69 distinct examiners. Rafael Perez Gutierrez is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 pending office actions. The count of 69 distinct examiners relative to the 71 pending actions suggests that MediaTek's applications are being reviewed by a variety of specialists across the USPTO. With 69 distinct examiners involved, the company manages many unique examiner interactions, although the busiest examiner, Rafael Perez Gutierrez, only holds 2 pending office actions.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

74
Total Pending OAs
38
Non-Final OAs
36
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

23
Hard (31%)
49
Medium (66%)
2
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (4%)
§103 only43 (58%)
§102 only6 (8%)
Double-patenting only2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)20 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
37
Information Tech
50% of docket
10
Communications
14% of docket
5
Semiconductors
7% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
3% of docket
20
Business / Other
27% 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.

740 h
Manual time on pending OAs
148 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
259 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2 24.2% +9.1%
CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 2 71.7% +11.2%
TRAN, JIMMY H 1 79.5% +17.2%
KARIKARI, KWASI 1 80.2% +6.6%
HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY 1 — —
VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 1 89.8% -0.6%
MILORD, MARCEAU 1 89.1% +11.3%
ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE 1 42.0% +9.7%
HO, HUY C 1 77.5% +20.5%
LEE, JAE YOUNG 1 75.5% +14.7%

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
18874652 UPLINK POWER CONTROL FOR DYNAMIC TDD AND SUBBAND FULL DUPLEX VUONG, QUOCHIEN B —
18954653 PDSCH GROUPING TRANSMISSION AND ASSOCIATED HARQ-ACK CODEBOOK CONSTRUCTION FOR MULTI-PDSCH SCHEDULING MILORD, MARCEAU —

Hard Cases (24)

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
18508169 METHODS OF TWO DOWNLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND TWO UPLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR FULL DUPLEX SYSTEM KO, SITHU 11d overdue
18512266 METHOD OF DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL INSERTION INTO TX IN-BAND EMISSION LE, BRIAN T 84d
19032067 Handling Attempt Counters When Unavailability Period Is Activated In Mobile Communications KARIKARI, KWASI —
18860203 METHODS FOR UE CONFIGURATION AND SCHEDULING IN SUBBAND-FULLDUPLEX NETWORK LEE, JAE YOUNG —
18904242 PRIORITIZING VOICE CALL OVER PS DOMAIN CUMMING, WILLIAM D —
18846563 PERIODIC HIGHER-PRIORITY PLMN SEARCH FOR SATELLITE ACCESS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LAMONT, BENJAMIN S —
18844922 USING PRE-CONFIGURED TRANSMISSION OCCASIONS IN TRANSMISSION OF VARYING SIZED DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LO, DIANE LEE —
18844906 METHODS FOR REDUCING PADDING IN UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GIDADO, RASHEED —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18035043 Methods For Signaling Of UE-Initiated COT In Mobile Communications CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 76d
18115893 Method And Apparatus For Lean Protocol Stack In Mobile Communications CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 85d
19172604 Handling Of In-Order Delivery And Latency Variation In Mobile Communications TRAN, JIMMY H —
18954653 PDSCH GROUPING TRANSMISSION AND ASSOCIATED HARQ-ACK CODEBOOK CONSTRUCTION FOR MULTI-PDSCH SCHEDULING MILORD, MARCEAU —
18940633 User Equipment Location Delivery In Mobile Communications HO, HUY C —
18860203 METHODS FOR UE CONFIGURATION AND SCHEDULING IN SUBBAND-FULLDUPLEX NETWORK LEE, JAE YOUNG —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2476 3
2414 3
2645 2
2477 2
2647 2
2642 2
2411 2
2479 2
2462 2
2465 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19172604 Handling Of In-Order Delivery And Latency Variation In Mobile Communications TRAN, JIMMY H — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2025
19032067 Handling Attempt Counters When Unavailability Period Is Activated In Mobile Communications KARIKARI, KWASI — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2025
19015053 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR OVERLAPPING A PLURALITY OF IMAGE LAYERS HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY 2617 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 09, 2025
18874652 UPLINK POWER CONTROL FOR DYNAMIC TDD AND SUBBAND FULL DUPLEX VUONG, QUOCHIEN B — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18954653 PDSCH GROUPING TRANSMISSION AND ASSOCIATED HARQ-ACK CODEBOOK CONSTRUCTION FOR MULTI-PDSCH SCHEDULING MILORD, MARCEAU — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 21, 2024
18941339 MULTI-PANEL DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE 2625 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18940633 User Equipment Location Delivery In Mobile Communications HO, HUY C — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024
18860203 METHODS FOR UE CONFIGURATION AND SCHEDULING IN SUBBAND-FULLDUPLEX NETWORK LEE, JAE YOUNG — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18904242 PRIORITIZING VOICE CALL OVER PS DOMAIN CUMMING, WILLIAM D — §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 02, 2024
18846563 PERIODIC HIGHER-PRIORITY PLMN SEARCH FOR SATELLITE ACCESS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LAMONT, BENJAMIN S — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18844922 USING PRE-CONFIGURED TRANSMISSION OCCASIONS IN TRANSMISSION OF VARYING SIZED DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LO, DIANE LEE — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2024
18844912 METHODS FOR SUPPORTING ARBITRARY DRX CYCLE AND PERIODICITY OF SPS AND CG IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS PATEL, MAHENDRA R — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2024
18844906 METHODS FOR REDUCING PADDING IN UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GIDADO, RASHEED — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2024
18842995 ON-DEMAND SELECTIVE RETRANSMISSIONS FOR UPLINK POSE AND CONTROL INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TOKUTA, SHEAN S — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18840646 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCED CAPACITY USER EQUIPMENT POSITIONING HIGA, BRENDAN Y — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2024
18800839 EXTREMELY HIGH THROUGHPUT (EHT) MULTI-BAND TRANSMISSION DUONG, FRANK — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2024
18835783 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATIONS ON UNLICENSED SPECTRUM O CONNOR, BRIAN T — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 05, 2024
18793797 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR UE-SIDE DATA COLLECTION WITH RAN AWARENESS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LEE, PHILIP C 2454 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 03, 2024
18793803 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR DATA COLLECTION WITHOUT RAN AWARENESS LATORRE, IVAN O — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 03, 2024
18783727 MULTI-SLOT PDCCH MONITORING FRAMEWORK ABELSON, RONALD B 2476 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2024
18769904 BEAM PREDICTION FOR MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS TRUONG, LAN-HUONG — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 11, 2024
18767241 HOST DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD YU, HENRY W 2181 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18764832 MAP IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MAP IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM LU, WILLIAM 2624 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jul 05, 2024
18763401 USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD TO EXEMPT EMERGENCY SERVICES FALLBACK PROCEDURE DUE TO INSECURE STEERING OF ROAMING (SOR) MURILLO GARCIA, FABRICIO R — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 03, 2024
18675718 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO RECOVER FROM A FORBIDDEN TRACKING AREA IDENTITY (FTAI) AFTER NO SLICES AVAILABLE IN NETWORK NGO, CHUONG A 2645 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 28, 2024
18674992 USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD TO FORBID PLMN OR SNPN AND HANDLE EMERGENCY CALL DUE TO DEREGISTRATION ESMAEILIAN, MAJID 2477 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending May 27, 2024
18673539 VEHICLE DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3648 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 24, 2024
18712006 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT AND MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) FEEDBACK LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 2414 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 21, 2024
18666830 ENERGY-EFFICIENT HYBRID AMPLIFIER ARCHITECTURE NGUYEN, KHANH V — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 17, 2024
18661688 Method And Apparatus For Enhancements Of Manual Network Selection In Emergency Services Handling LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH 2647 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2024
18649780 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO ACCESS A STAND-ALONE NON-PUBLIC NETWORK (SNPN) IN FORBIDDEN SNPN (FSNPN) LIST OR FORBIDDEN TRACKING AREA IDENTITY (FTAI) LIST MILLER, BRANDON J 2647 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 29, 2024
18646861 METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT TO DEFINE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT STATE TRANSITION DUE TO SATELLITE DISCONTINUOUS COVERAGE TIMORY, KABIR A 2631 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18645484 METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT TO ACTIVATE UNAVAILABILITY PERIOD DURING ACTIVE NON-ACCESS STRATUM (NAS) CONGESTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK NGUYEN, THAI 2469 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 25, 2024
18703988 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION OPERATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS PATIDAR, SUDESH M 2415 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 23, 2024
18623166 BEAM MANAGEMENT OF SL FR2 CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR 2475 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 01, 2024
18619185 CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR COUPLING DEVICES IN MESH NETWORK TO SERVER TODD, GREGORY G 2443 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 28, 2024
18612576 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING A COMPILER-AWARE NEURAL NETWORK MODEL WAESCO, JOSEPH M — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 21, 2024
18609368 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FAYETTE, NATHALIE RENEE 2812 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 19, 2024
18688928 IMPROVEMENT FOR 5G NAS SECURITY CONTEXT HANDLING WHEN UE SUPPORTS BOTH 3GPP AND NON-3GPP ACCESSES PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2642 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18437129 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF MAC PARTIAL RESET DURING INTRA-DU LTM FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH 2411 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Feb 08, 2024
18437086 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR MODEL/FUNCTIONALITY IDENTIFICATION JAHANGIR, KABIR U 2464 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 08, 2024
18436925 PROCEDURE OF CELL CHANGE IN A RADIO SYSTEM PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2642 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 08, 2024
18429122 Autonomous Detection and Reporting Of UE-To-UE CLI YEA, JI-HAE P 2471 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18405172 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE ENAD, CHRISTINE A 2811 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 05, 2024
18540927 Method of NAT64 Translation BAROT, BHARAT 2453 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 15, 2023
18531681 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF LTM SUPERVISE PROCEDURE KUNDU, SUJOY K 2400 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 06, 2023
18564750 UNIFIED TCI STATE FOR M-TRP MAC CE CONFIGURATION BRANDT, CHRISTOPHER M 2645 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 28, 2023
18512266 METHOD OF DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL INSERTION INTO TX IN-BAND EMISSION LE, BRIAN T 2479 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18507376 ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO MONITOR WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT WITH LOW POWER CONSUMPTION AND METHOD THEREOF NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 2414 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18508169 METHODS OF TWO DOWNLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND TWO UPLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR FULL DUPLEX SYSTEM KO, SITHU 2414 §103§112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18376431 USER EQUIPMENT ASSISTANCE INFORMATION NEGOTIATION METHOD, RELATED USER EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK TERMINAL SUNDARA, NICK ANON 2479 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 03, 2023
18284844 Timing And Frequency Compensation In Non-Terrestrial Network Communications MILLER, GARY ADDISON ELDO 2417 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2023
18367016 SCHEMES ON UE REPORTING GNSS RELATED INFORMATION MOORE, WHITNEY 3646 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 12, 2023
18464094 TRANSMISSION METHODS OF SIDELINK ON UNLICENSED SPECTRUM AYAD, SALMA ABDELMONEM 2462 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18463275 SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL PATTERN FOR SIDELINK IN UNLICENSED BANDS (SL-U) THOMAS, WILFRED 2416 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18242626 Methods And Apparatus For SBFD-Aware UE Configuration In Mobile Communications TON, DANG T 2476 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2023
18448951 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO UPDATE MRB CONFIGURATION BY COMMON MULTICAST SIGNALING FOR MBS MULTICAST RECEPTION IN RRC INACTIVE STATE SIDDIQUEE, INTEKHAAB AALAM 2462 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 13, 2023
18447931 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE UE EXPERIENCE WITH A NEW TYPE OF RADIO BEARER DURING INTER-DU INTER-CELL BEAM MANAGEMENT NGUYEN, THERESA 2418 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 10, 2023
18229487 Method And Apparatus For Enhancements On Sidelink Over Unlicensed Spectrum Communication JAIN, RAJ K 2411 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 02, 2023
18355988 METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY SWITCHING THE NETWORK CONNECTION OF SLAVE DEVICES BY SCENARIO DETECTION SIXTO, NANCY 2465 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18208750 Flexible Interruption For L1 Measurement In Mobile Communications WEIDNER, TIMOTHY J 2476 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023
18035043 Methods For Signaling Of UE-Initiated COT In Mobile Communications CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 2461 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending May 02, 2023
18306572 EFFICIENT WRITE OPERATION FOR SRAM WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 2800 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 25, 2023
18033288 Methods For Simultaneous PUCCH And PUSCH Transmissions In Intra-Band Carrier Aggregation YANG, ZHAOHUI 2468 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 21, 2023
18188630 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU 2899 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 23, 2023
18115893 Method And Apparatus For Lean Protocol Stack In Mobile Communications CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 2461 §103 Final Rejection 85d Pending Mar 01, 2023
18021790 Uplink Enhancements For URLLC And IIoT In Unlicensed Band ABAZA, AYMAN A 2465 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 16, 2023
18165892 HANDLING HARQ FEEDBACK IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL 2419 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Feb 07, 2023
18086411 Handling Of Multiple Tracking Area Identifiers In Satellite Access REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2419 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 21, 2022
17924688 Methods for reporting timing advance in Non-Terrestrial Network communications and communication apparatus utilizing the same KAO, JUTAI 2473 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 11, 2022
17922106 System Information Design For Synchronization In Non-Terrestrial Network Communications WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER 2477 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 28, 2022
17794616 Communications Method and Communications System for Determining a Transmission Scheme According to at Least One Temporal Parameter AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR 2466 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17841810 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K 2891 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 16, 2022
17719069 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENHANCED MULTI-LINK OPERATION RESPONSIVE TO TRANSMISSION FAILURE AJID, ABDELTIF 2478 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 12, 2022

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