Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
23 pending office actions • 14 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
SoftBank Group Corp. has 19 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket uses 19 examiners across 14 art units, showing that every pending matter has a distinct examiner assignment.
AZONGHA, SARDIS F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution management should therefore emphasize repeatable internal processes and art-unit tracking rather than dependence on one examiner relationship.
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 + other | 8 (35%) |
| §103 only | 8 (35%) |
| §102 only | 3 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZONGHA, SARDIS F | 1 | 81.8% | -2.2% |
| ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 1 | 78.9% | +21.1% |
| HONG, RICHARD J | 1 | 78.9% | +3.8% |
| SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 1 | 57.9% | +56.1% |
| MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 1 | 14.3% | -2.9% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.5% | +19.8% |
| JOS, BASIL T | 1 | 78.0% | +6.3% |
| BROSH, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
| DETWEILER, JAMES M | 1 | 39.0% | +43.6% |
| CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | 1 | 64.6% | +29.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19560151 | System for Identifying and Generating Scents | AZONGHA, SARDIS F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19361636 | System | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | — |
| 19357199 | SYSTEM | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | — |
| 19353676 | SYSTEM | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 19157283 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 19299630 | SYSTEM | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | — |
| 19299465 | SYSTEM | LE, LINH GIANG | — |
| 19295803 | SYSTEM | WEBER, TAMARA L | — |
| 19123269 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM | KHATIB, RAMI | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19483882 | TRACKING ROBOT, TRACKING SYSTEM, AND DRONE | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | — |
| 19361636 | System | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | — |
| 19353676 | SYSTEM | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 19473004 | ACTION CONTROL SYSTEM | BROSH, BENJAMIN J | — |
| 19157283 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 19299630 | SYSTEM | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 4 |
| 3656 | 2 |
| 3629 | 2 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3669 | 2 |
| 2627 | 1 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19560151 | System for Identifying and Generating Scents | AZONGHA, SARDIS F | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2026 |
| 19483882 | TRACKING ROBOT, TRACKING SYSTEM, AND DRONE | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19477454 | ACTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HONG, RICHARD J | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19361636 | System | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19357199 | SYSTEM | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 3629 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19353676 | SYSTEM | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19473542 | ACTION CONTROL SYSTEM | JOS, BASIL T | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19473004 | ACTION CONTROL SYSTEM | BROSH, BENJAMIN J | 3658 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19157283 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3622 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19299630 | SYSTEM | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | 3694 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19299465 | SYSTEM | LE, LINH GIANG | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19295803 | SYSTEM | WEBER, TAMARA L | 3667 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19129039 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM | HOLLOWAY, JASON R | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19123252 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VEHICLE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19123269 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM | KHATIB, RAMI | 3669 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19123197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19120047 | Humanoid Robot Control System and Program | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 3658 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19119824 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING TEST METHOD AND PROGRAM | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19120064 | Control Device for Autonomous Vehicle, Program, Signal Control Device, Traffic Signal Device, Traffic Signal System, Signal Control Program, Information Notification Device, and Information Notification Program | NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19170066 | PERFECT CRUISE CONTROL | MOYER, DALE S | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19117866 | COOLING SYSTEM, COOLING EXECUTION DEVICE, COOLING DEVICE, COOLING EXECUTION METHOD, COOLING METHOD, PROGRAM, COOLING EXECUTION PROGRAM, AND COOLING PROGRAM | MALKOWSKI, KENNETH J | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19113843 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 10 FINGER | DAVIS, JERROD I | 3656 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19073219 | SYSTEM | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSoftBank Group Corp. has 23 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 14 art units and 23 examiners.
Sardis F Azongha has the most, with 1 of SoftBank Group Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
