Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spreadtrum Semiconductor (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Networking & Security. Those matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is distributed across several examination assignments. TORRES, JUAN A is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending matters.
The portfolio therefore calls for coordination across multiple examination records and art-unit practices. The concentration with TORRES, JUAN A is limited relative to the total pending workload, while the remaining matters are distributed among other examiners. Counsel may benefit from maintaining consistent claim positions and technical explanations across the separate assignments.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TORRES, JUAN A | 2 | 87.4% | +12.6% |
| KIM, KI SEOK | 1 | — | — |
| AHMED, ATIQUE | 1 | 81.0% | +15.2% |
| FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 1 | 82.9% | +19.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021280 | STATELESS MULTICAST COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 131d overdue |
| 18579386 | MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE | AHMED, ATIQUE | 2d overdue |
| 18870619 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | TORRES, JUAN A | — |
| 18960712 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TORRES, JUAN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865193 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | KIM, KI SEOK | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021280 | STATELESS MULTICAST COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 131d overdue |
| 18579386 | MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE | AHMED, ATIQUE | 2d overdue |
| 18870619 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | TORRES, JUAN A | — |
| 18960712 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TORRES, JUAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 2 |
| 2418 | 1 |
| 2413 | 1 |
| 2462 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870619 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | TORRES, JUAN A | 2634 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18960712 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TORRES, JUAN A | 2634 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18865193 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | KIM, KI SEOK | 2418 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18579386 | MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE | AHMED, ATIQUE | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18021280 | STATELESS MULTICAST COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 2462 | §103 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSpreadtrum Semiconductor (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Juan A Torres has the most, with 2 of Spreadtrum Semiconductor (Nanjing) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
