Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Sagemcom Broadband Sas

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Sagemcom Broadband Sas has 9 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are distributed across 9 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, indicating a fully dispersed docket by both examiner and technical assignment.

TSVEY, GENNADIY is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner or art unit carries a larger identified share, so prosecution management should emphasize application-specific analysis. Counsel may still use the common communications focus to maintain consistent terminology and disclosure positions, but claim amendments and prior-art responses should be tailored to each assigned examination setting.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

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.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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.

4
Hard (50%)
4
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (25%)
§103 only2 (25%)
§102 only2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
50% of docket
4
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.

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
TSVEY, GENNADIY 1 60.6% +23.2%
PHUNG, LUAT 1 76.3% +11.4%
BROCKMAN, ANGEL T 1 81.9% +6.4%
SINGH, HIRDEPAL 1 86.4% +12.4%
SELBY, GEVELL V 1 90.4% +4.9%
KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 1 57.2% +26.6%
DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
PATEL, HITESHKUMAR R 1 63.5% +47.9%

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
18750792 METHOD FOR MANAGING AN ACTIVATION STATE OF A NODE DEVICE OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK, CORRESPONDING APPARATUS, NODE DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM BROCKMAN, ANGEL T 7d
18600163 SHUTTER AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL SENSOR AND A SHUTTER ASSOCIATED WITH SAID OPTICAL SENSOR SELBY, GEVELL V —
18523391 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CATEGORISING DATA STREAMS PASSING BETWEEN A STATION AND AN ACCESS POINT SERVING THE STATION DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18988082 ACTIVE RADIATION PATTERN MANAGEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF ORIENTATION TSVEY, GENNADIY —
18759034 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESTORING FUNCTIONALITY IN A RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY PHUNG, LUAT —
18678770 METHOD FOR MANAGING A RADIO INTERFACE OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE SINGH, HIRDEPAL —
17569116 METHOD FOR INDICATING A USE OF AN ILLICIT IP ADDRESS PATEL, HITESHKUMAR R —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18537023 Method for Notifying Programmes of Interest to a User of a Media Decoder KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 43d
18988082 ACTIVE RADIATION PATTERN MANAGEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF ORIENTATION TSVEY, GENNADIY —
18759034 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESTORING FUNCTIONALITY IN A RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY PHUNG, LUAT —
18678770 METHOD FOR MANAGING A RADIO INTERFACE OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE SINGH, HIRDEPAL —
17569116 METHOD FOR INDICATING A USE OF AN ILLICIT IP ADDRESS PATEL, HITESHKUMAR R —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2648 1
2468 1
2412 1
2631 1
2638 1
2421 1
2681 1
2400 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18988082 ACTIVE RADIATION PATTERN MANAGEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF ORIENTATION TSVEY, GENNADIY 2648 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18759034 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESTORING FUNCTIONALITY IN A RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY PHUNG, LUAT 2468 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18750792 METHOD FOR MANAGING AN ACTIVATION STATE OF A NODE DEVICE OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK, CORRESPONDING APPARATUS, NODE DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM BROCKMAN, ANGEL T 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18678770 METHOD FOR MANAGING A RADIO INTERFACE OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE SINGH, HIRDEPAL 2631 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2024
18600163 SHUTTER AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL SENSOR AND A SHUTTER ASSOCIATED WITH SAID OPTICAL SENSOR SELBY, GEVELL V 2638 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 08, 2024
18537023 Method for Notifying Programmes of Interest to a User of a Media Decoder KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 2421 §102 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18523391 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CATEGORISING DATA STREAMS PASSING BETWEEN A STATION AND AN ACCESS POINT SERVING THE STATION DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 2681 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 29, 2023
17569116 METHOD FOR INDICATING A USE OF AN ILLICIT IP ADDRESS PATEL, HITESHKUMAR R 2400 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 05, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Sagemcom Broadband Sas have?

Sagemcom Broadband Sas has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 8 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Sagemcom Broadband Sas applications?

Gennadiy Tsvey has the most, with 1 of Sagemcom Broadband Sas's pending office actions.

What technology area are Sagemcom Broadband Sas's patent applications in?

Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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