Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
u-blox AG currently manages 17 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 15 distinct examiners and span 8 distinct art units, showing a broad prosecution landscape. LE, HAILEY R is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 2 pending office actions.
The distribution of 17 pending office actions among 15 distinct examiners suggests that the company interacts with a wide range of personnel at the patent office. With 8 distinct art units involved, the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems innovations likely cover a diverse array of technical applications. This variety requires the company to navigate multiple sets of art unit guidelines and examiner expectations simultaneously.
Managing 17 pending office actions requires a sophisticated legal strategy to ensure consistency across the portfolio. The fact that LE, HAILEY R handles 2 actions indicates a slight concentration, but the overall workload remains decentralized across the 15 distinct examiners. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific technical nuances of 8 distinct art units while maintaining a unified approach to the company's intellectual property goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (33%) |
| §103 only | 4 (27%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, HAILEY R | 2 | 81.1% | +9.6% |
| PERVIN, NUZHAT | 2 | 81.1% | +13.7% |
| HAMADYK, ANNA N | 1 | 88.6% | +8.1% |
| HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 1 | 71.5% | +29.1% |
| BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.5% |
| LI, YONGHONG | 1 | 76.5% | +22.0% |
| PAGHADAL, PARESH H | 1 | 59.9% | +21.6% |
| LE, TUNG X | 1 | 87.0% | +3.2% |
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 1 | 72.0% | +29.3% |
| WOLFORD, NAOMI M | 1 | 56.4% | +39.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953946 | MULTIBAND PATCH ANTENNA AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MULTIBAND PATCH ANTENNA | HAMADYK, ANNA N | — |
| 18796388 | GNSS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING TO IDENTIFY MODES | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626514 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PAGHADAL, PARESH H | 16d overdue |
| 17940427 | METHOD FOR ENABLING COHERENT RECEPTION OF A RADIO SIGNAL AND RADIO RECEIVER FOR COHERENT RECEPTION OF A RADIO SIGNAL | NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN | 14d |
| 18668435 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING ESTIMATION IN A HYBRID POSITIONING SYSTEM | LI, YONGHONG | 63d |
| 18932722 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A TRACK OF MOVEMENT STATES OF A TERMINAL DEVICE | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | — |
| 18918541 | PROCESSING A GNSS SIGNAL AND WIPING OFF A DATA BIT BASED ON DOPPLER ESTIMATES | LE, HAILEY R | — |
| 18909157 | SETTING SIGNAL DETECTION THRESHOLDS | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | — |
| 18817578 | VERIFYING A NAVIGATION FIX | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| 18796444 | INTEGRATION FOR GNSS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING | LE, HAILEY R | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626514 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PAGHADAL, PARESH H | 16d overdue |
| 18486497 | LOCALIZED REMOTE GNSS POSITIONING | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 21d |
| 18668435 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING ESTIMATION IN A HYBRID POSITIONING SYSTEM | LI, YONGHONG | 63d |
| 18932722 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A TRACK OF MOVEMENT STATES OF A TERMINAL DEVICE | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | — |
| 18817578 | VERIFYING A NAVIGATION FIX | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| 18796388 | GNSS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING TO IDENTIFY MODES | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| 18551457 | Method for Generating Substitute Correction Data for GNSS-Based Localization | WOLFORD, NAOMI M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 6 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2416 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18953946 | MULTIBAND PATCH ANTENNA AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MULTIBAND PATCH ANTENNA | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18932722 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A TRACK OF MOVEMENT STATES OF A TERMINAL DEVICE | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18918541 | PROCESSING A GNSS SIGNAL AND WIPING OFF A DATA BIT BASED ON DOPPLER ESTIMATES | LE, HAILEY R | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18909157 | SETTING SIGNAL DETECTION THRESHOLDS | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18817578 | VERIFYING A NAVIGATION FIX | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18796388 | GNSS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING TO IDENTIFY MODES | PERVIN, NUZHAT | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18796444 | INTEGRATION FOR GNSS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING | LE, HAILEY R | 3648 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18668435 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING ESTIMATION IN A HYBRID POSITIONING SYSTEM | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18626514 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PAGHADAL, PARESH H | 2847 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18602529 | PATCH ANTENNA ARRAY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCH ANTENNA ARRAY | LE, TUNG X | 2844 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18486497 | LOCALIZED REMOTE GNSS POSITIONING | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18551457 | Method for Generating Substitute Correction Data for GNSS-Based Localization | WOLFORD, NAOMI M | 3648 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18220407 | GNSS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING AND RESIDUAL ERROR MODEL ESTIMATION | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18295363 | MODULE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A DATA BLOCK | PHAM, PHUC H | 2408 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 17940427 | METHOD FOR ENABLING COHERENT RECEPTION OF A RADIO SIGNAL AND RADIO RECEIVER FOR COHERENT RECEPTION OF A RADIO SIGNAL | NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN | 2416 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
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