Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sony Europe B V has 4 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, indicating no overlap in personnel or technical units for the current pending matters. The busiest examiner, YANG, NIEN, is handling 1 pending action.
With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the portfolio's current prosecution is fully decentralized. Every action is being reviewed by a different person in a different art unit, which requires managing 4 unique examiner relationships simultaneously. The 4 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's networking and security innovations span several different technical classifications.
The 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. Practitioners must adapt to 4 different examiner styles across the 4 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio between the 4 pending office actions and the 4 distinct examiners means that each case will be decided independently without the benefit of a central examiner's perspective.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
| TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 1 | 87.7% | +9.0% |
| LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 1 | 28.6% | -33.3% |
| WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | 1 | 70.0% | +46.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 18835202 | BEACON SIGNALS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | — |
| 18719551 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SELECTING CONTENT FOR DISPLAY DURING A JOURNEY TO ALLEVIATE MOTION SICKNESS | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 18078950 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2484 | 1 |
| 2469 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 2484 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
| 18835202 | BEACON SIGNALS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 2469 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18719551 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SELECTING CONTENT FOR DISPLAY DURING A JOURNEY TO ALLEVIATE MOTION SICKNESS | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18078950 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSony Europe B V has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Nien Yang has the most, with 1 of Sony Europe B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
