Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SAMARA, LOUIS

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2414 2476

This examiner grants 95% of resolved cases

Analysis

Louis Samara has resolved 254 cases in Tech Center 2400. The allowance rate is 94.5 percent. This extremely high rate indicates a very favorable environment for grant seekers in Art Unit 2414. With nearly all cases resulting in a grant, applicants can have high confidence in a positive outcome when working with this examiner, given the 94.5 percent success rate.

The interview lift is 6.7 percent. Given the high base allowance rate, interviews provide a small but positive benefit. The data suggests that the examiner is already highly inclined toward allowance, so while an interview can help, it may not be as necessary as it is with more restrictive examiners who lack this 6.7 percent lift.

The median days to allowance is 899. This pendency indicates a relatively fast path to grant for successful applications. The combination of a 94.5 percent allowance rate and an 899 day median pendency makes this one of the more efficient and favorable profiles for patent applicants.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

94.6%
Allow Rate
+36.6% vs TC avg
276
Total Applications
+6.7%
Interview Lift
901
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 257 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.8%
§101 Eligibility
16.4%
§102 Novelty
66.7%
§103 Obviousness
11.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18948221 Intra- and Inter-RAT Co-Existence and Congestion Control for LTE PC5-Based Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communication Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18887276 MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18786973 ENHANCING MULTIPLE CONFIGURED GRANT DESIGN FOR UPLINK AND SUPPLEMENTARY UPLINK Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18531573 CHANNEL BACKOFF IN A WIRELESS NETWORK Non-Final OA NXP USA, Inc.
18952137 PILOT TONES IN DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE UNIT (DRU) TRANSMISSION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18838051 SOURCE BASED SYNCHRONIZATION FOR WIRELESS DEVICES Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18796270 CELL PRESENCE DETECTION ENHANCEMENT Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18405869 Information Sharing Between Radio Access Networks (RANs) for a User Equipment (UE) Configured with Dual Stack Dual Connectivity Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18506915 COMPACT DATA AND REFERENCE SIGNAL REPRESENTATION WITH MODULATION COMPRESSION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17905885 REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION BY FULL-DUPLEX USER EQUIPMENT Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
17849150 COMBINED REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18798627 ORTHOGONAL COVER CODE SEQUENCE APPLICATION WITH FREQUENCY HOPPING Non-Final OA Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Limited
18903054 BASE STATION, REPEATER, TERMINAL, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
18828804 RESUME FAILURE REPORT FOR FAILED ATTEMPT TO RESUME CONNECTED STATE FROM INACTIVE STATE Non-Final OA Kyocera Corporation
18717504 PHASE TRACKING REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION FOR SINGLE-CARRIER WAVEFORMS Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18858645 SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-PANEL UPLINK DATA TRANSMISSION Non-Final OA InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
18787031 REPORTING PREDICTED REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED POWER (RSRP) IN THE TEMPORAL DOMAIN Non-Final OA InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
18917435 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18903156 PROCEDURES AND SIGNAL DESIGN FOR NTN NB-IOT WUR Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18588285 RESOURCE SELECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL Final Rejection VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
18919958 UNIFIED EXTENDED DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION CYCLE AND PAGING TIME WINDOW Non-Final OA ZTE Corporation
18848545 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIDELINK OPERATION ON UNLICENSED SPECTRUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION

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