Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

NTT Docomo Business Inc.

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only2 (25%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
62% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

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
ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH 1 78.0% +26.0%
GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J 1 62.0% +37.3%
DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 1 92.9% +25.0%
KIM, JUNG W 1 47.4% +15.2%
NAOREEN, NAZIA 1 70.1% +11.2%
KONERU, SUJAY 1 58.3% +37.1%
HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 1 2.9% +0.7%
POLLOCK, GREGORY A 1 11.1% +12.6%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18916718 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 23d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18109858 TERMINAL DEVICE AND SETTLEMENT METHOD POLLOCK, GREGORY A 31d overdue
18473396 MEDICATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 41d

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
18779990 PRODUCTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTERREADABLE STORAGE MEDIUM KONERU, SUJAY 80d overdue
18946749 INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH 43d overdue
18109858 TERMINAL DEVICE AND SETTLEMENT METHOD POLLOCK, GREGORY A 31d overdue
18917027 INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM KIM, JUNG W 25d overdue
18916718 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 23d overdue
18916785 INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM NAOREEN, NAZIA 11d overdue
18918310 COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J 5d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2431 1
2449 1
2499 1
2494 1
2458 1
3624 1
3686 1
3691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18946749 INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH 2431 §102 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2024
18918310 COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 17, 2024
18916718 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2024
18917027 INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM KIM, JUNG W 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2024
18916785 INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM NAOREEN, NAZIA 2458 §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2024
18779990 PRODUCTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTERREADABLE STORAGE MEDIUM KONERU, SUJAY 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18473396 MEDICATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 3686 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18109858 TERMINAL DEVICE AND SETTLEMENT METHOD POLLOCK, GREGORY A 3691 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023

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