Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
38 pending office actions • 18 art units • 36 examiners • 0 of 38 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 123 patents granted in the last 365 days
Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC has 39 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 36 distinct examiners. The portfolio spans 19 distinct art units, reflecting a broad range of semiconductor and optical technologies under review. The involvement of 19 distinct art units suggests that the company's wireless network innovations are being evaluated by many different specialized teams, each with its own technical focus across the 39 pending office actions.
BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M is the busiest examiner, managing 2 pending office actions. The remaining actions are spread across the other 36 distinct examiners. This means that 36 distinct examiners are providing feedback on the company's applications. The breadth of 19 distinct art units indicates that the company's research is technically diverse, requiring the prosecution team to navigate the unique examination cultures of many different specialized units. Having 2 pending office actions assigned to BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M represents the highest concentration of work with any single examiner.
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.
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.
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 | 17 (45%) |
| §102 only | 3 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 15 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (3%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2 | 81.6% | +13.6% |
| DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | 2 | 84.2% | +13.3% |
| VU, JIMMY T | 1 | 86.5% | +7.5% |
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.2% | +24.6% |
| HO, ANH N | 1 | 80.7% | +14.2% |
| CHAN, KO HUNG | 1 | 66.7% | +15.0% |
| HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 1 | 85.8% | +8.5% |
| MADU, FAVOUR ONYINYECHI | 1 | — | — |
| MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 1 | 67.6% | -10.3% |
| VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | 1 | 89.8% | -0.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879689 | ROLE SWAPPING FOR REDUNDANCY IN VIRTUALIZED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 8d |
| 19134285 | MULTIBEAM SECTOR-SPLITTING BASE STATION ANTENNAS HAVING MODIFIED NOLEN MATRIX-BASED BEAMFORMING NETWORKS | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
| 19210129 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS WITH DUAL POLARIZED RADIATING ELEMENTS HAVING FEED STALKS ARRANGED TO GENERATE ORTHOGONAL ELECTRIC FIELD DIRECTIONS | VU, JIMMY T | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517094 | CELLULAR BASE STATION ANTENNA AND POLE ASSEMBLY | STOYTCHEV, MARIN STOYTCHEV | 23d overdue |
| 17828766 | CONNECTING ELEMENT, CONNECTION DEVICE, RADOME SUPPORTING MEMBER AND BASE STATION ANTENNA | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 7d |
| 18326239 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS HAVING AT LEAST ONE GRID REFLECTOR AND RELATED DEVICES | TRAN, MINH | 63d |
| 19207440 | SUB-REFLECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND RELATED ANTENNA ASSEMBLIES | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — |
| 19208454 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS WITH LOW-BAND ARRAYS HAVING LOW-BAND RADIATING ELEMENTS HAVING PARASITIC MONOPOLE ELEMENTS | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — |
| 19202057 | MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FOR REMOTE RADIO UNITS | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19058144 | LOW-COST DUAL-POLARIZED RADIATING ELEMENTS AND RELATED BASE STATION ANTENNAS | HO, ANH N | — |
| 18998415 | LOW-COST ULTRA-WIDEBAND CROSS-DIPOLE RADIATING ELEMENTS AND BASE STATION ANTENNAS INCLUDING ARRAYS OF SUCH RADIATING ELEMENTS | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19134285 | MULTIBEAM SECTOR-SPLITTING BASE STATION ANTENNAS HAVING MODIFIED NOLEN MATRIX-BASED BEAMFORMING NETWORKS | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
| 19207440 | SUB-REFLECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND RELATED ANTENNA ASSEMBLIES | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — |
| 19208454 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS WITH LOW-BAND ARRAYS HAVING LOW-BAND RADIATING ELEMENTS HAVING PARASITIC MONOPOLE ELEMENTS | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — |
| 19202057 | MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FOR REMOTE RADIO UNITS | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19058144 | LOW-COST DUAL-POLARIZED RADIATING ELEMENTS AND RELATED BASE STATION ANTENNAS | HO, ANH N | — |
| 19052543 | SECTOR FRAME ANTENNA MOUNT ASSEMBLIES | CHAN, KO HUNG | — |
| 18998415 | LOW-COST ULTRA-WIDEBAND CROSS-DIPOLE RADIATING ELEMENTS AND BASE STATION ANTENNAS INCLUDING ARRAYS OF SUCH RADIATING ELEMENTS | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 5 |
| 2642 | 2 |
| 3992 | 2 |
| 2844 | 2 |
| 2831 | 2 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 2441 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19134285 | MULTIBEAM SECTOR-SPLITTING BASE STATION ANTENNAS HAVING MODIFIED NOLEN MATRIX-BASED BEAMFORMING NETWORKS | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19210129 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS WITH DUAL POLARIZED RADIATING ELEMENTS HAVING FEED STALKS ARRANGED TO GENERATE ORTHOGONAL ELECTRIC FIELD DIRECTIONS | VU, JIMMY T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19207440 | SUB-REFLECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND RELATED ANTENNA ASSEMBLIES | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19208454 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS WITH LOW-BAND ARRAYS HAVING LOW-BAND RADIATING ELEMENTS HAVING PARASITIC MONOPOLE ELEMENTS | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19202057 | MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FOR REMOTE RADIO UNITS | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19058144 | LOW-COST DUAL-POLARIZED RADIATING ELEMENTS AND RELATED BASE STATION ANTENNAS | HO, ANH N | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19052543 | SECTOR FRAME ANTENNA MOUNT ASSEMBLIES | CHAN, KO HUNG | 3631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18998415 | LOW-COST ULTRA-WIDEBAND CROSS-DIPOLE RADIATING ELEMENTS AND BASE STATION ANTENNAS INCLUDING ARRAYS OF SUCH RADIATING ELEMENTS | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18879689 | ROLE SWAPPING FOR REDUNDANCY IN VIRTUALIZED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 2441 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18874973 | BASE STATION PERFORMANCE STATISTICS COLLECTION IN DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM | MADU, FAVOUR ONYINYECHI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18873456 | CABLE HANGER WITH STABILIZNG MEMBERS | MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 3632 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873238 | CELLULAR MESH NETWORK FOR REMOTE RADIO UNITS | VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | 2642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18867952 | BASE STATION HAVING VIRTUALIZED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM FUNCTION | FIGUEROA, MARISOL | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18867977 | UPLINK NOISE REDUCTION AND SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-AND-NOISE RATIO (SINR) IMPROVEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM | APPIAH, CHARLES NANA | 2642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954975 | MODULAR MULTIBAND BASE STATION ANTENNAS HAVING CAVITY PHASE SHIFTER ASSEMBLIES | BYTHROW, PETER M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18862608 | CELLULAR BASE STATION ASSEMBLIES WITH ADAPTERS TO INTERCONNECT ANTENNA AND RRU | BRITTINGHAM, NATHANIEL P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18861459 | MULTIPLE INPUT/MULTIPLE OUTPUT PATH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH POWER REDUCTION | HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18855695 | REMOTE ELECTRONIC TILT (RET) ACTUATORS FOR ANTENNAS AND METHODS RELATED TO POSITIONING SAME | MASIH, KAREN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18911738 | DEVICES FOR CABLE MANAGEMENT | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18899456 | OPTIMIZING TRANSMISSIONS OVER FRONTHAUL NETWORK IN A BASE STATION SYSTEM | DIVITO, WALTER J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18847978 | RADIATOR ASSEMBLY FOR BASE STATION ANTENNAS | LEVI, DAMEON E | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18840821 | FRONTHAUL BANDWIDTH REDUCTION IN RADIO ACCESS NETWORK | WONG, WARNER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18796759 | SHROUD FOR CABLE HANGERS | DAVISON, LAURA L | 3993 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18783910 | DUAL-BAND INTERSPERSED CELLULAR BASESTATION ANTENNAS | LIE, ANGELA M | 3992 | Other | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18742718 | DIGITAL MULTICHANNEL INTERFACE WITHIN A RADIO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E | 3992 | §112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18715663 | RESOURCE POOLING FOR VIRTUALIZED RADIO ACCESS NETWORK | HUANG, WEIBIN | 2471 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18579783 | COMPACT MIMO BASE STATION ANTENNAS THAT GENERATE ANTENNA BEAMS HAVING NARROW AZIMUTH BEAMWIDTHS | KIM, SEOKJIN | 2844 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18407709 | CONDUCTIVE GASKET FOR USE WITH SPRING-BIASED CONTACTS | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18517094 | CELLULAR BASE STATION ANTENNA AND POLE ASSEMBLY | STOYTCHEV, MARIN STOYTCHEV | 2845 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18514114 | GANGED COAXIAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | LE, THANH TAM T | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18500301 | DISPLAY PANEL WITH INTEGRATED SMALL CELL AND BILLBOARD WITH INTEGRATED MACRO SITE | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18463850 | USER EQUIPMENT LOCALIZATION IN CENTRALIZED OR CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORK | KAYAL, DAVID M | 2464 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18326239 | BASE STATION ANTENNAS HAVING AT LEAST ONE GRID REFLECTOR AND RELATED DEVICES | TRAN, MINH | 2844 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17998899 | BASE STATION ANTENNA | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17998056 | DUPLEXED BASE STATION ANTENNAS | HUANG, WEN WU | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17857694 | MONOPOLE LOW-PROFILE PLATFORM ASSEMBLIES | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
| 17828766 | CONNECTING ELEMENT, CONNECTION DEVICE, RADOME SUPPORTING MEMBER AND BASE STATION ANTENNA | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 3677 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17673160 | PROTECTION ZONES FOR USE IN CENTRALIZED OR CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (C-RAN) | LATORRE, IVAN O | 2409 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2022 |
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