Technology area: Communications
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Niantic, Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Communications. The actions are distributed among 11 examiners and 8 art units, creating a broad prosecution network with more examiner assignments than art-unit assignments.
LIU, GORDON G. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner concentration means that portfolio oversight should focus on identifying recurring issues across different examiners and units rather than optimizing for one examiner’s practice.
The art-unit distribution may provide useful groupings for reviewing related claim themes and technical arguments. Because each recorded examiner has a distinct assignment, counsel should confirm that any shared response approach remains appropriate for the specific examination record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 7 (70%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, GORDON G | 1 | 83.0% | +14.7% |
| AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 1 | 73.1% | +19.0% |
| WILBURN, MOLLY K | 1 | 90.1% | +9.0% |
| THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 1 | 73.1% | +13.2% |
| SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | 1 | 72.7% | +30.0% |
| SHENG, XIN | 1 | 73.2% | +16.7% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 1 | — | — |
| HE, WEIMING | 1 | 46.5% | +12.0% |
| HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 1 | 85.5% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523795 | SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 36d overdue |
| 19052050 | CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING | LIU, GORDON G | — |
| 19015616 | REPEATABILITY PREDICTIONS OF INTEREST POINTS | WILBURN, MOLLY K | — |
| 18919404 | VOLUMETRIC SCENE RECONSTRUCTION WITH VARIABLE VOXEL RESOLUTION IN TRUNCATED SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION (TSDF) FUSION | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044430 | Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | — |
| 18963979 | STRUCTURE LINE GENERATION FOR USER DEVICE POSE PREDICTION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523795 | SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 36d overdue |
| 18530189 | Virtual Occlusion Mask Prediction Through Implicit Depth Estimation | HE, WEIMING | 29d |
| 19052050 | CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING | LIU, GORDON G | — |
| 19044430 | Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | — |
| 18963979 | STRUCTURE LINE GENERATION FOR USER DEVICE POSE PREDICTION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
| 18942346 | Adjusting Virtual View in a Mirrored Virtual World | SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | — |
| 18932606 | High-Speed Real-Time Scene Reconstruction from Input Image Data | SHENG, XIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 2 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052050 | CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING | LIU, GORDON G | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19044430 | Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19015616 | REPEATABILITY PREDICTIONS OF INTEREST POINTS | WILBURN, MOLLY K | 2666 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18963979 | STRUCTURE LINE GENERATION FOR USER DEVICE POSE PREDICTION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 2672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18942346 | Adjusting Virtual View in a Mirrored Virtual World | SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18932606 | High-Speed Real-Time Scene Reconstruction from Input Image Data | SHENG, XIN | 2619 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18919404 | VOLUMETRIC SCENE RECONSTRUCTION WITH VARIABLE VOXEL RESOLUTION IN TRUNCATED SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION (TSDF) FUSION | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18675607 | LOCATION VERIFICATION THROUGH VISUAL POSITIONING | MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18530189 | Virtual Occlusion Mask Prediction Through Implicit Depth Estimation | HE, WEIMING | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18523795 | SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNiantic, Inc. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 10 examiners.
Gordon G Liu has the most, with 1 of Niantic, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
