Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 19, 2026

MediaTek Inc.

73 pending office actions • 40 art units • 71 examiners • 0 of 73 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 102 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

73
Total Pending OAs
35
Non-Final OAs
37
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
2
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (3)

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.

27
Hard (37%)
45
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (1%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other4 (5%)
§103 only39 (53%)
§102 only6 (8%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)23 (32%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
41
Information Tech
56% of docket
12
Communications
16% of docket
4
Semiconductors
5% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
1% of docket
15
Business / Other
21% 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.

730 h
Manual time on pending OAs
146 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
255 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2 26.3% +55.3%
ABAZA, AYMAN A 2 53.0% +32.9%
TRAN, JIMMY H 1 79.5% +17.2%
MUNGUIA, DUILIO 1 66.7% +80.0%
HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY 1
VUONG, QUOCHIEN B 1 89.8% -0.1%
GRULLON, FRANCISCO A 1 88.0% -1.7%
ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE 1 42.0% +9.7%
HO, HUY C 1 77.5% +20.4%
CUMMING, WILLIAM D 1 89.9% +5.7%

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
18874652 UPLINK POWER CONTROL FOR DYNAMIC TDD AND SUBBAND FULL DUPLEX VUONG, QUOCHIEN B
18947260 DATA MANAGENMENT METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM GRULLON, FRANCISCO A
18904242 PRIORITIZING VOICE CALL OVER PS DOMAIN CUMMING, WILLIAM D

Hard Cases (28)

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
18655371 Method And Apparatus For Radio Link Problem Prediction And Early Recovery In Mobile Communications BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 29d overdue
17862603 MULTI-SLOT PDCCH MONITORING CONFIGURATION ENHANCEMENTS WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL 29d overdue
18295260 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF TA MAINTENANCE AND ACQUISITION FOR MOBILITY WITH INTER-CELL BEAM MANAGEMENT MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE 16d overdue
18508169 METHODS OF TWO DOWNLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND TWO UPLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR FULL DUPLEX SYSTEM KO, SITHU 11d overdue
18059363 RELIABLE MULTICAST TRANSMISSION WITH UPLINK FEEDBACK BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 20d
18665540 Method And Apparatus For Measuring Correlation Between MIMO Antennas In Mobile Communications TAYONG, HELENE E 57d
18512266 METHOD OF DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL INSERTION INTO TX IN-BAND EMISSION LE, BRIAN T 84d
19084615 Methods And Apparatus Of Security Key Derivation For Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility In Mobile Communications MUNGUIA, DUILIO

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
18655371 Method And Apparatus For Radio Link Problem Prediction And Early Recovery In Mobile Communications BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 29d overdue
18432144 Selective BWP Interruptions for L1 Measurements ABAZA, AYMAN A 15d overdue
18059363 RELIABLE MULTICAST TRANSMISSION WITH UPLINK FEEDBACK BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 20d
19172604 Handling Of In-Order Delivery And Latency Variation In Mobile Communications TRAN, JIMMY H
19084615 Methods And Apparatus Of Security Key Derivation For Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility In Mobile Communications MUNGUIA, DUILIO
18940633 User Equipment Location Delivery In Mobile Communications HO, HUY C
18021790 Uplink Enhancements For URLLC And IIoT In Unlicensed Band ABAZA, AYMAN A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2476 3
2631 3
2647 3
2419 3
2471 3
2465 3
2477 2
2463 2
2479 2
2414 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
19084615 Methods And Apparatus Of Security Key Derivation For Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility In Mobile Communications MUNGUIA, DUILIO §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 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
18947260 DATA MANAGENMENT METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM GRULLON, FRANCISCO A 2132 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 14, 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
18904242 PRIORITIZING VOICE CALL OVER PS DOMAIN CUMMING, WILLIAM D §102 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
18844932 USER EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK BEHAVIOR WITH RESTRICTED SATELLITE ACCESS BY SUBSCRIPTION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS HUYNH, DUNG B. §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18842979 FURTHER ENHANCEMENTS IN DRX OPERATION FOR XR AND CLOUD GAMING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS BROCKMAN, ANGEL T §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 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
18800839 EXTREMELY HIGH THROUGHPUT (EHT) MULTI-BAND TRANSMISSION DUONG, FRANK §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 2024
18795123 Method And Apparatus For A Positioning Model Using Relative Time Input In Mobile Communications TORRES, MARCOS L §103§112 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 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2024
18793803 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR DATA COLLECTION WITHOUT RAN AWARENESS LATORRE, IVAN O §103 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 Non-Final OA 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
18675118 RAMP SIGNAL GENERATOR OF SWITCH MODE POWER SUPPLY COMAS TORRES, YAHVEH 2838 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 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
18666830 ENERGY-EFFICIENT HYBRID AMPLIFIER ARCHITECTURE NGUYEN, KHANH V §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18665540 Method And Apparatus For Measuring Correlation Between MIMO Antennas In Mobile Communications TAYONG, HELENE E 2631 §101§112 Final Rejection 57d Pending May 15, 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
18655371 Method And Apparatus For Radio Link Problem Prediction And Early Recovery In Mobile Communications BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103§112 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18652827 Method And Apparatus For Improving Positioning By Data Augmentation In Mobile Communications PATEL, DHAVAL V 2631 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 02, 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 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 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
18621093 OPTIMIZED STEERING METHODS FOR A STATION IN A MESH NETWORK AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED 2463 §103 Final Rejection 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
18685609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING ENHANCED TYPE-3 HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST-ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (HARQ-ACK) CODEBOOKS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS YEA, JI-HAE P 2471 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 22, 2024
18436925 PROCEDURE OF CELL CHANGE IN A RADIO SYSTEM PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2642 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2024
18432144 Selective BWP Interruptions for L1 Measurements ABAZA, AYMAN A 2465 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2024
18432127 UE Behavior For Collision Of Network-Initiated De-Registration And Emergency Services AHSAN, UMAIR 2647 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 05, 2024
18423412 RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE IN SUBBAND FULL-DUPLEXING SLOMS, NICHOLAS 2476 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2024
18420817 Collision Handling Between MUSIM Gaps And Type-1 Measurement Gap In Mobile Communications MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT 2471 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 24, 2024
18405172 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE ENAD, CHRISTINE A 2811 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 05, 2024
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
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
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
18388892 TRANSMISSION METHODS OF SL OVER UNLICENSED SPECTRUM RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN 2471 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 13, 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
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
18273113 Soft HARQ Feedback Reporting Density, Enabling Mechanism, Processing Timeline And Codebook Construction In Mobile Communications WANG, YAOTANG 2409 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18219177 Methods And Apparatus For Disabling And Enabling HARQ Feedback For Multi-TB In IoT NTN LIU, SHU 2417 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18208750 Flexible Interruption For L1 Measurement In Mobile Communications WEIDNER, TIMOTHY J 2476 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023
18320425 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE MUNOZ, ANDRES F 2818 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 19, 2023
18306572 EFFICIENT WRITE OPERATION FOR SRAM WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 2800 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2023
18295260 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF TA MAINTENANCE AND ACQUISITION FOR MOBILITY WITH INTER-CELL BEAM MANAGEMENT MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE 2463 §103§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18116374 Selecting A TAI As Last Visited Registered TAI In A Geographical Location In Mobile Communications SHAHEED, KHALID W 2643 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 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
18059363 RELIABLE MULTICAST TRANSMISSION WITH UPLINK FEEDBACK BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Nov 28, 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
17948451 Link Availability Indication For Non-Primary Link In Wireless Communications CHOI, HAESHIL JESSICA 2479 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Sep 20, 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
17862603 MULTI-SLOT PDCCH MONITORING CONFIGURATION ENHANCEMENTS WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL 2415 §103§112 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2022
17852484 Hardware-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA 2125 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 29, 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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