Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Niantic, Inc.

8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

3
Hard (38%)
4
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (50%)
Double-patenting only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
5
Business / Other
62% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, GORDON G 1 82.9% +15.0%
AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN 1 77.3% +23.3%
LE, JOHNNY TRAN 1 57.1% -10.0%
SHENG, XIN 1 72.7% +17.0%
TUCKER, WESLEY J 1 83.7% +5.9%
LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 1 81.8% -3.3%
HODAC, ERIC KHOI 1 85.7% +17.4%
HSU, JONI 1 87.5% +7.2%

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
17982365 Metaverse Content Modality Mapping HSU, JONI 4d overdue
19052050 CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING LIU, GORDON G
18781897 DETERMINING VISUAL OVERLAP OF IMAGES BY USING BOX EMBEDDINGS TUCKER, WESLEY J

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18523795 SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION HODAC, ERIC KHOI 36d overdue
19044430 Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN
18627798 Two-View Geometry Scoring without Correspondences LIN, JESSICA YIFANG

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
19044430 Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN
18932606 High-Speed Real-Time Scene Reconstruction from Input Image Data SHENG, XIN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2668 1
3648 1
2611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19052050 CAMERA-SPACE HAND MESH PREDICTION WITH DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING LIU, GORDON G §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 12, 2025
19044430 Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent Embeddings AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 03, 2025
18934083 EAR FEATURE DETECTION AND LOCATION FOR FACIAL AUGMENTED REALITY LE, JOHNNY TRAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18932606 High-Speed Real-Time Scene Reconstruction from Input Image Data SHENG, XIN §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2024
18781897 DETERMINING VISUAL OVERLAP OF IMAGES BY USING BOX EMBEDDINGS TUCKER, WESLEY J DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18627798 Two-View Geometry Scoring without Correspondences LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 2668 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 05, 2024
18523795 SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §102§103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
17982365 Metaverse Content Modality Mapping HSU, JONI 2611 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022

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