Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2617 2641 2644 2645

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.2%
Allow Rate
+15.2% vs TC avg
835
Total Applications
+19.9%
Interview Lift
1113
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 797 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.4%
§101 Eligibility
9.6%
§102 Novelty
84.3%
§103 Obviousness
0.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18505303 Resource Selection for Sidelink Inter-UE Coordination Final Rejection Ofinno, LLC
18564728 INDICATING TIME WINDOW FOR CONDITIONAL HANDOVER Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18564689 REFERENCE SIGNALLING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18682698 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SENSING PROCEDURE IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18591997 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Non-Final OA InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
18040338 5G MULTICAST-BROADCAST SERVICES (MBS) RADIO ACCESS NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATION Non-Final OA INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
18619877 Method and Apparatus of Partial Sensing and DRX in Sidelink Communications Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18410529 EMULATING WIRELESS CONNECTIONS WITHIN NETWORK SIMULATIONS Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
17962447 USER EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATION Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17593339 HARQ TRANSMISSION IN NEW RADIO (NR) BASED ON SUBCARRIER SPACING Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18285262 MANAGING MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICES ON SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING RADIO RESOURCES Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18563851 INTER-UE COORDINATION INCLUDING RESOURCE RESERVATION FORWARDING MECHANISMS Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
17997895 INTER-OPERATOR MULTICAST AND UNICAST CONVERGENCE TRANSMISSION Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18686699 TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION Non-Final OA NTT DOCOMO, INC.
18493756 DEREGISTRATION AND EMM PARAMETER HANDLING CONSIDERING ACCESS TYPE Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
18032903 Common and Default Beam Indication of Uplink and Downlink Channel Resources and/or Reference Signals Final Rejection Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18564593 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING BLIND RETRANSMISSION SLOT RESOURCE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE Non-Final OA BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
18012360 MOBILE NETWORK AUTHENTICATION USING A CONCEALED IDENTITY Non-Final OA Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18804702 O-RAN OPEN FRONTHAUL SECTION ENHANCEMENT Non-Final OA NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY

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