Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Softbank Corp.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SUN, MICHAEL Y 1 56.5% +26.7%
KENLAW, GRACE A 1 52.1% +36.9%
REDA, MATTHEW J 1 55.2% +28.9%
TSVEY, GENNADIY 1 60.4% +23.5%
BHATTI, HASHIM S 1 86.1% +6.2%
HAILE, AWET A 1 79.2% +26.2%
KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE 1 44.4% +66.7%

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
18553516 RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BHATTI, HASHIM S 23d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18795132 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR FORMING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AREA WITH A FLIGHT VEHICLE FUNCTIONING AS A STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORM GUIDED BY A FLIGHT PLAN BASED ON PREDICTED WEATHER REDA, MATTHEW J 35d overdue
18562881 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING INSTALLATION POSITION OF RADIO-WAVE REFLECTING MEMBER TSVEY, GENNADIY 10d overdue
17960150 SYSTEM, PROGRAM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND AIRCRAFT KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE 3d overdue
18938284 STACK, ELECTRODE STRUCTURE, BATTERY, FLIGHT VEHICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING STACK, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE STRUCTURE KENLAW, GRACE A 27d
19051155 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS AND FLIGHT VEHICLE SUN, MICHAEL Y 34d
18549421 SYSTEM, RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS, VEHICLE, CONTROL APPARATUS, BASE STATION, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING CONTROL IN INTER-TERMINAL DIRECT COMMUNICATION HAILE, AWET A 82d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1728 1
1723 1
3665 1
2648 1
2475 1
2474 1
2859 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19051155 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS AND FLIGHT VEHICLE SUN, MICHAEL Y 1728 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 11, 2025
18938284 STACK, ELECTRODE STRUCTURE, BATTERY, FLIGHT VEHICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING STACK, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE STRUCTURE KENLAW, GRACE A 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18795132 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR FORMING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AREA WITH A FLIGHT VEHICLE FUNCTIONING AS A STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORM GUIDED BY A FLIGHT PLAN BASED ON PREDICTED WEATHER REDA, MATTHEW J 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2024
18562881 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING INSTALLATION POSITION OF RADIO-WAVE REFLECTING MEMBER TSVEY, GENNADIY 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18553516 RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BHATTI, HASHIM S 2475 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18549421 SYSTEM, RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS, VEHICLE, CONTROL APPARATUS, BASE STATION, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING CONTROL IN INTER-TERMINAL DIRECT COMMUNICATION HAILE, AWET A 2474 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Sep 07, 2023
17960150 SYSTEM, PROGRAM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND AIRCRAFT KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022

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