Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sagemcom Broadband SAS

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
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
1
Due this week
1
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 ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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 only4 (67%)
§102 only2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
83% of docket
1
Communications
17% 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
BROCKMAN, ANGEL T 1 81.7% +6.5%
MOREHEAD III, JOHN H 1 85.8% +11.9%
KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 1 56.0% +27.8%
DUONG, THAO DUC 1 87.0% +17.6%
PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 1 87.7% +3.3%
SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 1 49.1% +49.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18384636 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING MESSAGES BROADCAST IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK DUONG, THAO DUC 71d overdue
18740052 VERTICALLY MOUNTED ADD-ON CAMERA MODULE MOREHEAD III, JOHN H 38d overdue
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
17553213 METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING AND STORING COMPUTER FILES AND ASSOCIATED ENCRYPTION AND STORAGE DEVICE PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 26d

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
18384636 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING MESSAGES BROADCAST IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK DUONG, THAO DUC 71d overdue
18740052 VERTICALLY MOUNTED ADD-ON CAMERA MODULE MOREHEAD III, JOHN H 38d overdue
18537023 Method for Notifying Programmes of Interest to a User of a Media Decoder KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 43d
17538584 METHOD FOR SELECTING A CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT DEVICE OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT DEVICE SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2412 1
2639 1
2421 1
2446 1
2492 1
2411 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18740052 VERTICALLY MOUNTED ADD-ON CAMERA MODULE MOREHEAD III, JOHN H 2639 §102 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jun 11, 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
18384636 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING MESSAGES BROADCAST IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK DUONG, THAO DUC 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
17553213 METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING AND STORING COMPUTER FILES AND ASSOCIATED ENCRYPTION AND STORAGE DEVICE PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Dec 16, 2021
17538584 METHOD FOR SELECTING A CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT DEVICE OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT DEVICE SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 2411 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Nov 30, 2021

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