Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 10 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viasat Inc. has 21 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 10 distinct art units. This distribution across 10 art units for 21 actions indicates that the company's innovations are being reviewed by a variety of specialized technical groups at the patent office.
The company works with 21 distinct examiners. DETWEILER, JAMES M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This indicates that every single pending action is currently being reviewed by a different examiner, resulting in a ratio of 1 examiner per action. This lack of examiner concentration is a key feature of the company's current prosecution profile, as no examiner is managing more than 1 case.
With 21 pending actions and 21 examiners across 10 art units, the company faces a highly fragmented prosecution landscape. Because no examiner is handling more than 1 case, the company cannot leverage previous experiences with specific personnel to predict outcomes. Practitioners must be prepared for 21 different examination styles across the 10 art units involved in the 21 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (27%) |
| §103 only | 9 (41%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (23%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DETWEILER, JAMES M | 1 | 38.8% | +43.5% |
| ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | 1 | 49.6% | +7.2% |
| SALCE, JASON P | 1 | 68.1% | +16.2% |
| WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | 1 | 84.6% | +10.7% |
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.3% |
| ALAM, FAYYAZ | 1 | 83.4% | +11.2% |
| CASS, JEAN PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +25.5% |
| AMBAYE, MEWALE A | 1 | 91.5% | -1.3% |
| AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE | 1 | 84.5% | +9.0% |
| CHANG, KAI J | 1 | 73.5% | +39.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847416 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATIONS USING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS | AMBAYE, MEWALE A | — |
| 18883953 | DETERMINING AN ATTENUATION ENVIRONMENT OF A SATELLITE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL | AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639826 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATION OF AN ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE ANTENNA | MAGLOIRE, VLADIMIR | 32d overdue |
| 17916007 | Systems and Methods for Delivery of Targeted Advertisements Onboard Mobile Platforms | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | 16d |
| 19148677 | Graphical User Interface for Facilitating Transactions Onboard an Aircraft | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 19216156 | TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT RANKING USING MACHINE LEARNING | ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | — |
| 19106662 | METHOD OF CREATING EMBEDDED COMPONENTS ON AN ANTENNA SUBSTRATE AND ANTENNA APPARATUS FORMED WITH SAME | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | — |
| 19106582 | TECHNIQUES FOR POSITIONING PRECISION BETWEEN SUBASSEMBLIES | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18983480 | Satellite for End to End Beamforming | ALAM, FAYYAZ | — |
| 18922991 | MESSAGING OF COMMUNICATION SERVICE ISSUES TO VEHICLE CREW AND PASSENGERS | CASS, JEAN PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19148677 | Graphical User Interface for Facilitating Transactions Onboard an Aircraft | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 19064335 | PERSONALIZED CONNECTIVITY USER-SPECIFIC CONTENT OFFERINGS | SALCE, JASON P | — |
| 19106662 | METHOD OF CREATING EMBEDDED COMPONENTS ON AN ANTENNA SUBSTRATE AND ANTENNA APPARATUS FORMED WITH SAME | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | — |
| 19106582 | TECHNIQUES FOR POSITIONING PRECISION BETWEEN SUBASSEMBLIES | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18983480 | Satellite for End to End Beamforming | ALAM, FAYYAZ | — |
| 18922991 | MESSAGING OF COMMUNICATION SERVICE ISSUES TO VEHICLE CREW AND PASSENGERS | CASS, JEAN PAUL | — |
| 18844913 | DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING AND MANAGING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS USING A SEGMENTED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE | CHANG, KAI J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 2 |
| 2649 | 2 |
| 3622 | 2 |
| 2421 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2644 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19148677 | Graphical User Interface for Facilitating Transactions Onboard an Aircraft | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3621 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19216156 | TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT RANKING USING MACHINE LEARNING | ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19064335 | PERSONALIZED CONNECTIVITY USER-SPECIFIC CONTENT OFFERINGS | SALCE, JASON P | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19106662 | METHOD OF CREATING EMBEDDED COMPONENTS ON AN ANTENNA SUBSTRATE AND ANTENNA APPARATUS FORMED WITH SAME | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19106582 | TECHNIQUES FOR POSITIONING PRECISION BETWEEN SUBASSEMBLIES | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 3679 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18983480 | Satellite for End to End Beamforming | ALAM, FAYYAZ | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18922991 | MESSAGING OF COMMUNICATION SERVICE ISSUES TO VEHICLE CREW AND PASSENGERS | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18847416 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATIONS USING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS | AMBAYE, MEWALE A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18883953 | DETERMINING AN ATTENUATION ENVIRONMENT OF A SATELLITE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL | AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18844913 | DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING AND MANAGING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS USING A SEGMENTED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE | CHANG, KAI J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18823456 | DYNAMIC SIGNAL QUALITY CRITERIA FOR SATELLITE TERMINAL INSTALLATIONS | VU, QUOC THAI NGOC | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18817082 | ADVERTISING PUBLIC CLIENT ADDRESSES AT MULTIPLE GATEWAYS TO IMPROVE NETWORK PERFORMANCE | HUANG, KAYLEE J | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18838645 | Method and Apparatus for Transmit Beamforming | GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18796058 | MULTI-BEAM ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ARCHITECTURE WITH INDEPENDENT POLARIZATION CONTROL | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18791041 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING IN-FLIGHT NETWORK TRAFFRIC POLICIES FOR PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES | WANG, YAOTANG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18718402 | Systems and Methods for In-Flight Connectivity | PHUONG, DAI | 2644 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18639826 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATION OF AN ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE ANTENNA | MAGLOIRE, VLADIMIR | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18684673 | Providing Destination-Specific Electronic Offerings Through an Inflight Entertainment System Onboard an Aircraft | CARVALHO, ERROL A | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2024 |
| 18573831 | COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE MAPPING FOR PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS | LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18245871 | Providing Electronic Sponsor Pages Through an Inflight Interactive Environment Onboard an Aircraft | LIN, JASON K | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 17916007 | Systems and Methods for Delivery of Targeted Advertisements Onboard Mobile Platforms | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | 3622 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17947015 | USER-LEVEL REWARD OFFER INTERFACE AND MANAGEMENT | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 3621 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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