Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

SK Telecom Co. Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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 (60%)
1
Easy (10%)
3
Unknown (30%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
70% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHOU, ZHIHAN 3 79.6% +1.4%
CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 1 69.6% +28.4%
MAWARI, REDHWAN K 1 72.3% +26.6%
LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 1 85.7% +33.3%
HO, DUC CHI 1 93.1% +7.3%
TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 1 0.0% +0.0%
NGUYEN, VAN H 1 89.2% +18.5%
OVEISSI, MANSOUR 1 83.0% +11.6%

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
18236283 REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD OF REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION CONTROL DEVICE OVEISSI, MANSOUR 73d overdue
18584213 BASE STATION, DISTRIBUTED UNIT, RADIO UNIT, AND SCHEDULING METHOD HO, DUC CHI 2d overdue
18836567 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMOTION RECOGNITION IN REAL-TIME BASED ON MULTIMODAL LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 23d
18289254 EDGE PLATFORM MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING EDGE PLATFORM MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND EDGE GATEWAY DEVICE NGUYEN, VAN H 46d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18559640 DEVICE FOR PREDICTION PURPOSE OF STAY AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PURPOSE OF STAY TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 31d overdue

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
18236283 REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD OF REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION CONTROL DEVICE OVEISSI, MANSOUR 73d overdue
18871036 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARTITIONING AIRWAY OF UAM INTO MULTIPLE SECTIONS ON BASIS OF INFORMATION ON TRAVEL REGION MAWARI, REDHWAN K 11d overdue
18836567 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMOTION RECOGNITION IN REAL-TIME BASED ON MULTIMODAL LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 23d
18289254 EDGE PLATFORM MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING EDGE PLATFORM MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND EDGE GATEWAY DEVICE NGUYEN, VAN H 46d
19034283 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OFF-DEMAND BASED CONTENT DOWNLOADING CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2482 3
2421 1
3664 1
2656 1
2465 1
3626 1
2199 1
2415 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19034283 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OFF-DEMAND BASED CONTENT DOWNLOADING CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Jan 22, 2025
18871036 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARTITIONING AIRWAY OF UAM INTO MULTIPLE SECTIONS ON BASIS OF INFORMATION ON TRAVEL REGION MAWARI, REDHWAN K 3664 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2024
18923372 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CORRELATION IN YCbCr ZHOU, ZHIHAN 2482 Other Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
18923254 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CORRELATION IN YCbCr ZHOU, ZHIHAN 2482 Other Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
18923195 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CORRELATION IN YCbCr ZHOU, ZHIHAN 2482 Other Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
18836567 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMOTION RECOGNITION IN REAL-TIME BASED ON MULTIMODAL LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Aug 07, 2024
18584213 BASE STATION, DISTRIBUTED UNIT, RADIO UNIT, AND SCHEDULING METHOD HO, DUC CHI 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18559640 DEVICE FOR PREDICTION PURPOSE OF STAY AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PURPOSE OF STAY TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18289254 EDGE PLATFORM MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING EDGE PLATFORM MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND EDGE GATEWAY DEVICE NGUYEN, VAN H 2199 §102 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18236283 REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD OF REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION CONTROL DEVICE OVEISSI, MANSOUR 2415 §112 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023

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