Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Spreadtrum Semiconductor (Nanjing) Co. Ltd.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due later (2)

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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
83% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 2 82.6% +19.4%
AHMED, ATIQUE 1 80.4% +15.5%
CHRISS, ANDREW W 1 72.3% +24.2%
DEAN, RAYMOND S 1 70.2% +15.3%
LEE, TAMMY EUNHYE 1 83.9% +30.7%

Quick Wins (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18021280 STATELESS MULTICAST COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 131d overdue
18020118 COMPUTING POWER SHARING-RELATED EXCEPTION REPORTING AND HANDLING METHODS AND DEVICES, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS LEE, TAMMY EUNHYE 89d overdue
18579386 MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE AHMED, ATIQUE 2d overdue
18716328 BEAM SCANNING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 62d

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
18021280 STATELESS MULTICAST COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 131d overdue
18020118 COMPUTING POWER SHARING-RELATED EXCEPTION REPORTING AND HANDLING METHODS AND DEVICES, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS LEE, TAMMY EUNHYE 89d overdue
18028431 WAITING DURATION DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS DEAN, RAYMOND S 19d overdue
18579386 MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE AHMED, ATIQUE 2d overdue
18716328 BEAM SCANNING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 62d
18260331 METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR STATE DETERMINATION, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CHRISS, ANDREW W 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2469 1
2413 1
2472 1
2645 1
2462 1
2195 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18716328 BEAM SCANNING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Jun 04, 2024
18579386 MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE AHMED, ATIQUE 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18260331 METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR STATE DETERMINATION, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CHRISS, ANDREW W 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Jul 04, 2023
18028431 WAITING DURATION DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS DEAN, RAYMOND S 2645 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
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
18020118 COMPUTING POWER SHARING-RELATED EXCEPTION REPORTING AND HANDLING METHODS AND DEVICES, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS LEE, TAMMY EUNHYE 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023

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