Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
298 pending office actions • 92 art units • 258 examiners • 0 of 298 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 509 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sharp Corporation manages 301 pending office actions located in the Networking & Security technology area. The company's prosecution efforts are spread across 92 distinct art units, showing an extensive technical reach. The 92 distinct art units indicate that the company's networking and security innovations are reviewed by a large variety of specialized groups within the patent office.
The workload is handled by 261 distinct examiners. This high number of 261 distinct examiners means that the company must address a vast range of individual examiner styles. Since there are 261 distinct examiners for 301 pending office actions, the portfolio is decentralized. Practitioners must be prepared for unique challenges across this large group of 261 distinct examiners.
AYDIN, SEVAN A is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 3 pending office actions. While 3 pending office actions is the highest count for any individual, it is a small fraction of the 301 pending office actions. The scale of the portfolio and the diversity of the 92 distinct art units require a highly coordinated prosecution effort to ensure consistency across the Networking & Security filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 68 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. 68 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (0%) |
| §101 + other | 15 (5%) |
| §103 only | 151 (51%) |
| §102 only | 48 (16%) |
| §112 only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 72 (24%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYDIN, SEVAN A | 3 | 80.1% | +4.6% |
| CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3 | 80.4% | +13.5% |
| RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R | 3 | 81.8% | +7.3% |
| MOHEBBI, KOUROUSH | 3 | 85.6% | +12.8% |
| SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 3 | 84.5% | +6.8% |
| DANG, PHILIP | 2 | 77.6% | +29.8% |
| WALLACE, JOHN R | 2 | 78.3% | +23.9% |
| LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2 | 52.3% | +16.5% |
| TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | 2 | 72.9% | -4.6% |
| FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 2 | 60.9% | +15.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809668 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 5d |
| 18572731 | USER EQUIPMENTS, BASE STATIONS AND SIGNALING FOR UPLINK OF NARROW-BAND INTERNET OF THINGS OVER NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS | MOHEBBI, KOUROUSH | 21d |
| 17912495 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 34d |
| 19208874 | EXPOSURE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | — |
| 19001288 | SHEET FEEDING CASSETTE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
| 18969575 | DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
| 18964778 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND OUTPUT METHOD | RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R | — |
| 18015038 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774023 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNALING SCALING WINDOW INFORMATION IN VIDEO CODING | LOTFI, KYLE M | 23d overdue |
| 18019479 | PUCCH RESOURCE SELECTION AND MULTIPLEXING OF HARQ-ACK WITH DIFFERENT PRIORITIES ON PUCCH | TRAN, THINH D | 4d overdue |
| 18683875 | TERMINAL DEVICES AND COMMUNICATION METHODS | AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR | 5d |
| 18271683 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT | WHALEN, DANIEL B | 8d |
| 18202904 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ESTIMATING DEVICE AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ESTIMATING METHOD | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 14d |
| 18202603 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ESTIMATING DEVICE AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ESTIMATING METHOD | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 14d |
| 18690088 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE), COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | MOHEBBI, KOUROUSH | 15d |
| 18622077 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | MCLEAN, NEIL R | 16d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690088 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE), COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | MOHEBBI, KOUROUSH | 15d |
| 18572731 | USER EQUIPMENTS, BASE STATIONS AND SIGNALING FOR UPLINK OF NARROW-BAND INTERNET OF THINGS OVER NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS | MOHEBBI, KOUROUSH | 21d |
| 19254370 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS | DANG, PHILIP | — |
| 19074663 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | WALLACE, JOHN R | — |
| 19050343 | COOLING STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | — |
| 18992684 | APPARATUS AND METHODS WITH DOWNLINK CHANNEL RESOURCE MAPPING | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | — |
| 18878972 | CCLM PREDICTION UNIT, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO CODING APPARATUS | DANG, PHILIP | — |
| 19001288 | SHEET FEEDING CASSETTE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2466 | 8 |
| 2469 | 7 |
| 2461 | 7 |
| 2472 | 7 |
| 2471 | 6 |
| 2478 | 6 |
| 2411 | 5 |
| 2475 | 5 |
| 2462 | 5 |
| 3761 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | HO, VIVIAN DANG | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19341612 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DECODING AND/OR ENCODING VIDEO DATA | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19166727 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DECODING VIDEO DATA | SIANGCHIN, KEVIN | 2486 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19299667 | VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19287119 | DISPLAY DEVICE, MULTI-DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | PIZIALI, JEFFREY J | 2628 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19285248 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19275234 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | GRAINGER, QUANA M | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19273823 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNALING PICTURE INFORMATION IN VIDEO CODING | HASAN, MAINUL | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19272128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING A RECONSTRUCTION ERROR IN VIDEO CODING BASED ON A CROSS-COMPONENT CORRELATION | MUNG, ON S | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19254370 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS | DANG, PHILIP | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19142406 | VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS | GADOMSKI, STEFAN J | 2485 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19243805 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD OF PROCESSING APPARATUS | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2161 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19208874 | EXPOSURE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19208114 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HISTORY INFORMATION OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | TURCHEN, JAMES R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19191393 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING DEBLOCKING FILTERS TO RECONSTRUCTED VIDEO DATA | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19191581 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | HONG, MICHAEL HYUN | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19169926 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE | GREEN, TRACIE Y | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19091494 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19083418 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONER EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME | COMINGS, DANIEL C | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19074663 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | WALLACE, JOHN R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19053317 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE | POON, KING Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19050343 | COOLING STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19048081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | REFAI, SAM M | 3621 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19036212 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OUTPUT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND OUTPUT METHOD | LAM, ANDREW H | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19036593 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | TIEU, BENNY QUOC | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19035203 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE | ROTH, LAURA K | 2852 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18997273 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS | TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18996949 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE) | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 2644 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996816 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE) | MILLER, BRANDON J | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996827 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE) | TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024429 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | SNIDER, SCOTT | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19019072 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED | CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19019056 | VOICE PROCESSING SYSTEM, VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH VOICE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | — | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19016179 | PRINT HEAD DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME | ZIMMERMANN, JOHN P | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18992684 | APPARATUS AND METHODS WITH DOWNLINK CHANNEL RESOURCE MAPPING | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19012034 | 3D DATA DECODING APPARATUS AND 3D DATA CODING APPARATUS | BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18878972 | CCLM PREDICTION UNIT, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO CODING APPARATUS | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18878963 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE) AND ACCESS MOBILITY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION (AMF) | LOPATA, ROBERT J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18878812 | METHOD PERFORMED BY USER EQUIPMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT | TRAN, THINH D | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 19001288 | SHEET FEEDING CASSETTE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18877561 | USER EQUIPMENTS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TIME-FREQUENCY RESOURCE SET FOR ENHANCED DUPLEX OPERATION | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18876845 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNALING NEURAL NETWORK POST-FILTER PARAMETER INFORMATION IN VIDEO CODING | NAWAZ, TALHA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18875783 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | AHN, SUNG S | 2631 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18875241 | METHOD PERFORMED BY USER EQUIPMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT | ASHLEY, HUGH MARK | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875237 | METHOD PERFORMED BY USER EQUIPMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT | ASHLEY, HUGH MARK | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874222 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18874230 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | CHEN, PETER | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18976420 | MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING METHOD | JIA, XIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18976417 | DOCUMENT TRANSPORT DEVICE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18723477 | USER EQUIPMENT (UE) AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD PERFORMED BY UE | MADANI, FARIDEH | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSharp Corporation has 298 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 92 art units and 258 examiners.
Sevan A Aydin has the most, with 3 of Sharp Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.