Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Somos Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and are spread across 4 distinct art units. This high level of diversification indicates that the company's technology spans several different technical niches within the communications field. With 4 distinct art units involved, the company must manage four separate sets of administrative and technical expectations simultaneously.
Xiaoming Wei is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, each official is responsible for exactly one action. This distribution ensures that no single examiner or art unit has a disproportionate impact on the company's overall prosecution progress. The presence of 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units suggests a very broad and decentralized approach to their current patent filings in the Communications sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEI, XIAOMING | 1 | 82.4% | +16.6% |
| MADANI, FARIDEH | 1 | 77.7% | +19.3% |
| ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | 1 | 78.4% | +24.6% |
| SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 1 | 18.8% | +1.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | WEI, XIAOMING | 28d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17722122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FOR REGISTERED INTERNET OF THINGS UNIVERSAL ID (IOT DEVICES) | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 13d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | WEI, XIAOMING | 28d |
| 17865668 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS CALL VALIDATION PLATFORM | MADANI, FARIDEH | — |
| 17722012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE REGISTRY | ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2643 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18304722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY | WEI, XIAOMING | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17865668 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS CALL VALIDATION PLATFORM | MADANI, FARIDEH | 2643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
| 17722012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE REGISTRY | ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17722122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FOR REGISTERED INTERNET OF THINGS UNIVERSAL ID (IOT DEVICES) | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 2432 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSomos Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Xiaoming Wei has the most, with 1 of Somos Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
