Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 5 of 6 (83%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
50% of docket
3
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HE, WEIMING 1 46.1% +13.0%
SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 1 84.9% +8.9%
MITCHELL, JASON D 1 55.0% +31.8%
KY, KEVIN 1 76.6% +25.6%
SOMERS, MARC S 1 64.7% +34.5%
DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 1 69.4% +4.5%

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
18659919 MICROPHONE HAVING A DIGITAL OUTPUT DETERMINED AT DIFFERENT POWER CONSUMPTION LEVELS SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 8d overdue

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
18538895 ITERATIVE POLICY-GUIDED PROGRAM SYNTHESIS MITCHELL, JASON D 42d overdue
17914297 FEDERATED MIXTURE MODELS SOMERS, MARC S 15d
18501167 SELF-SUPERVISED POINT CLOUD ORDERING USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS KY, KEVIN 23d
18744541 LEARNABLE DEFORMATION FOR POINT CLOUD SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING HE, WEIMING 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2611 1
2693 1
2199 1
2671 1
2159 1
2168 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18744541 LEARNABLE DEFORMATION FOR POINT CLOUD SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING HE, WEIMING 2611 §103 Final Rejection 70d AI Ready Jun 14, 2024
18659919 MICROPHONE HAVING A DIGITAL OUTPUT DETERMINED AT DIFFERENT POWER CONSUMPTION LEVELS SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue AI Ready May 09, 2024
18538895 ITERATIVE POLICY-GUIDED PROGRAM SYNTHESIS MITCHELL, JASON D 2199 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue AI Ready Dec 13, 2023
18501167 SELF-SUPERVISED POINT CLOUD ORDERING USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS KY, KEVIN 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 23d AI Ready Nov 03, 2023
17914297 FEDERATED MIXTURE MODELS SOMERS, MARC S 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 15d AI Ready Sep 23, 2022
17756957 FEDERATED MIXTURE MODELS DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Jun 06, 2022

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