Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
64 pending office actions • 1 client • 59 examiners • 23 art units • 9 of 64 (14%) have an AI response strategy ready • 95 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apple Inc. -- FKM operates in the Networking & Security technology area, with 4300 career applications. This volume of work shows a solid foundation of experience in networking patent prosecution. The firm currently manages 32 pending office actions, representing its active prosecution docket.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 87.87, reflecting a high success rate for its clients. Prosecution tends to be more intensive, with an avg office actions per allowance of 3.91. This figure suggests that securing an allowance in Networking & Security often requires numerous substantive interactions with the USPTO examiner.
For practitioners, the 87.87 resolved allowance rate pct is a strong indicator of the firm's ultimate success. The 3.91 avg office actions per allowance highlights the effort required to overcome examiner rejections in this technical field. With 4300 career applications and 32 pending office actions, the firm has a proven track record of diligent prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 + other | 2 (3%) |
| §103 only | 30 (47%) |
| §102 only | 3 (5%) |
| §112 only | 4 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (34%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | 2 | 87.7% | +23.2% |
| GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 2 | 85.1% | +6.3% |
| SHAH, TANMAY K | 2 | 89.1% | +9.2% |
| DEFAUW, THAD N | 2 | 83.3% | +16.3% |
| LY, ANH VU H | 2 | 89.2% | -0.1% |
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 1 | 71.6% | +30.7% |
| HAILE, AWET A | 1 | 79.6% | +25.2% |
| LITTLE, VANCE M | 1 | 83.9% | +24.4% |
| NGUYEN, THAI | 1 | 85.1% | +13.6% |
| THAWNG, MANG BOI | 1 | 93.4% | -1.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609421 | PHR Reporting for Multi-Beam PUSCH Transmissions | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 5d |
| 18958145 | Enabling UDP/TCP Encapsulation in Baseband | LITTLE, VANCE M | — |
| 18864379 | Sub-Grouping and Configuration of Logical Channel ID Spaces for MAC CEs / SDUs | JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | — |
| 18864267 | Cellular Device Radio Network Temporary Identity Protection | THAWNG, MANG BOI | — |
| 18764871 | Network Operations Related to Receiving Positioning SRS Transmissions | DEFAUW, THAD N | — |
| 18259517 | Prioritized Data Transmission | LY, ANH VU H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17933918 | Uplink Latency Enhancements | CHOI, WON JUN | 44d overdue |
| 18261305 | Resource Allocation for Transport Block Transmission Over Multiple Slots | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 31d overdue |
| 18261170 | Relaxing Evaluation of Radio Link Quality | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 22d overdue |
| 17905957 | UL GAP TRIGGERING | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 15d overdue |
| 17995458 | User Equipment Assisted Carrier Aggregation | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 9d overdue |
| 18944537 | Configuration of Multiple Measurement Gaps for a UE | NGUYEN, THAI | — |
| 18931686 | Transmitting Wake-Up Signals for Paging Operations | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | — |
| 18857963 | User Equipment Operation for Inter-Cell L1-RSRP Measurements | RENNER, BRANDON M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062390 | Enhancements to Support TRP Specific Beam Failure Recovery | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — |
| 18973364 | Uplink Control Information Reporting | HAILE, AWET A | — |
| 18958145 | Enabling UDP/TCP Encapsulation in Baseband | LITTLE, VANCE M | — |
| 18944537 | Configuration of Multiple Measurement Gaps for a UE | NGUYEN, THAI | — |
| 18864379 | Sub-Grouping and Configuration of Logical Channel ID Spaces for MAC CEs / SDUs | JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | — |
| 18764871 | Network Operations Related to Receiving Positioning SRS Transmissions | DEFAUW, THAD N | — |
| 18748406 | Establishing a Multiple Access Connection | JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | — |
| 17249970 | Intelligent Measurement Handling | DEFAUW, THAD N | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Apple | 64 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2472 | 4 |
| 2469 | 3 |
| 2631 | 2 |
| 2465 | 2 |
| 2645 | 2 |
| 2477 | 2 |
| 2413 | 2 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2474 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062390 | Enhancements to Support TRP Specific Beam Failure Recovery | Apple Inc. | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| 18973364 | Uplink Control Information Reporting | Apple Inc. | HAILE, AWET A | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 | |
| 18958145 | Enabling UDP/TCP Encapsulation in Baseband | Apple Inc. | LITTLE, VANCE M | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18944537 | Configuration of Multiple Measurement Gaps for a UE | Apple Inc. | NGUYEN, THAI | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 | |
| 18864379 | Sub-Grouping and Configuration of Logical Channel ID Spaces for MAC CEs / SDUs | Apple Inc. | JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18864267 | Cellular Device Radio Network Temporary Identity Protection | Apple Inc. | THAWNG, MANG BOI | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18931686 | Transmitting Wake-Up Signals for Paging Operations | Apple Inc. | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 | |
| 18858818 | Multi-Panel Simultaneous PUSCH Transmission | Apple Inc. | KING, CURTIS J | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 | |
| 18858426 | Training and Inference for AI-Based Positioning | Apple Inc. | LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 | |
| 18857963 | User Equipment Operation for Inter-Cell L1-RSRP Measurements | Apple Inc. | RENNER, BRANDON M | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 | |
| 18857933 | Inter-Cell L1-RSRP Measurements | Apple Inc. | NGUYEN, CHUONG M | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 | |
| 18857715 | Semi-Persistent Channel State Information (SP-CSI) Enhancement | Apple Inc. | MCCALLUM, LATRESA A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 | |
| 18857268 | Scaling Factor in RRC_IDLE for FR2-2 | Apple Inc. | WANG, YAOTANG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 | |
| 18857317 | Bandwidth Part Frequency Hopping for Enhanced Reduced Capability UEs | Apple Inc. | KWAK, JAEYOUNG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 | |
| 18854268 | DMRS Port Configuration for CP-OFDM | Apple Inc. | CHU, WUTCHUNG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 | |
| 18854307 | Broadcast MBS Reception in Connected State | Apple Inc. | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 | |
| 18899821 | Location Determination for a Wirelessly Locatable Tag | Apple Inc. | PATEL, DHAVAL V | 2631 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18899223 | Video Group Calling | Apple Inc. | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18899414 | Location Operations Using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Data | Apple Inc. | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 | |
| 18898061 | Wireless Radio Communication Between a Wireless Communication Device and Accessory Device in an XR System | Apple Inc. | ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 | |
| 18885874 | Fast Secondary Cell Scheduling for Communication with Multiple Component Carriers | Apple Inc. | REYES ORTIZ, HECTOR E | 2472 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18884249 | Operations Based on Characteristics of a Physical Environment | Apple Inc. | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 | |
| 18883599 | Multilevel Wireless Communication Device Detection | Apple Inc. | VO, ERIC MINHSANG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 | |
| 18845582 | Maintenance of Multiple TA in the Same Serving Cell for Multi-TRP Operation | Apple Inc. | AHMED, ATIQUE | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 | |
| 18830065 | Profile State Management for Secure Profile Export from a Source Device | Apple Inc. | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 | |
| 18826578 | Direct Acquisition of UWB Ranging Triggers Over Both Bluetooth and Internet | Apple Inc. | TRAN, PABLO N | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 | |
| 18824394 | Target Device and Entitlement Server Cross Platform eSIM Profile Transfer | Apple Inc. | GHULAMALI, QUTBUDDIN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 | |
| 18817792 | Call Forwarding Enhancements in a Device-to-Device Environment | Apple Inc. | SHAH, TANMAY K | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 | |
| 18817715 | Call Forwarding Enhancements | Apple Inc. | SHAH, TANMAY K | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 | |
| 18817643 | Enhanced Link Loss Detection and Parent Reselection for Power Constrained Accessories | Apple Inc. | JAVAID, JAMAL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 | |
| 18837383 | Multi-Slot PDCCH Monitoring With Multiple Cells | Apple Inc. | ROBERTS, BRIAN S | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 | |
| 18799276 | Designs for Multi-DCI Based Multi-TRP Operation | Apple Inc. | QIN, ZHIREN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 | |
| 18837347 | Multi-Slot PDCCH Monitoring Search Space Configuration | Apple Inc. | TRUONG, LAN-HUONG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 | |
| 18837299 | User Equipment Prioritization of Uplink Grants | Apple Inc. | CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 | |
| 18835147 | Candidate Cell Activation for Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility | Apple Inc. | LAM, YEE F | 2465 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18780925 | Scheduling of Control Signaling on a Primary Cell by a Secondary Cell | Apple Inc. | LOPATA, ROBERT J | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 | |
| 18729978 | UE Measurement in Collided RAN and CN PTW | Apple Inc. | MUSA, ABDELNABI O | 2472 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18764871 | Network Operations Related to Receiving Positioning SRS Transmissions | Apple Inc. | DEFAUW, THAD N | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 | |
| 18748406 | Establishing a Multiple Access Connection | Apple Inc. | JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | 2469 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18735427 | Carrier Aggregation Capability Advertisement | Apple Inc. | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 2474 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18680017 | Reuse Operations for eSIM Download and Transfer | Apple Inc. | SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI | 2466 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18671058 | Traffic Routing Towards Local Area Data Network Per Application Function Request | Apple Inc. | MILLER, BRANDON J | 2647 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d | AI Ready | May 22, 2024 |
| 18703005 | Multi-Slot PDCCH Monitoring With Slot Groups | Apple Inc. | LEE, CHAE S | 2415 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18702466 | Session Continuity Support for New Radio Quality of Experience | Apple Inc. | LY, ANH VU H | 2472 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18699784 | Enhanced QoS Support for Extended Reality (XR) | Apple Inc. | PATEL, MAHENDRA R | 2645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18609421 | PHR Reporting for Multi-Beam PUSCH Transmissions | Apple Inc. | GONZALES, APRIL GUZMAN | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18607741 | Ubiquitous Computing Characteristics Profile | Apple Inc. | TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 | |
| 18534028 | Flexible Frame Structures for Directional Unlicensed Access in Sub-Terahertz Band | Apple Inc. | ULYSSE, JAEL M | 2477 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18476950 | Time-Domain Resource Allocation for Multi-Cell Scheduling by a Single DCI | Apple Inc. | ZHAO, WEI | 2479 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18475652 | Channel State Information Reporting for TRP Operation | Apple Inc. | CHO, UN C | 2400 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18465356 | Beam Management in Multi-TRP Operation | Apple Inc. | LAM, KENNETH T | 2631 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18546804 | Authentication Indication for Edge Data Network Relocation | Apple Inc. | NOEL, LYDIA LOUIS-FILS | 2437 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18261385 | Beam Management for High-Speed Train | Apple Inc. | KANG, SUK JIN | 2477 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18261305 | Resource Allocation for Transport Block Transmission Over Multiple Slots | Apple Inc. | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 2419 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | AI Ready | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18261170 | Relaxing Evaluation of Radio Link Quality | Apple Inc. | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 2446 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | AI Ready | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18259517 | Prioritized Data Transmission | Apple Inc. | LY, ANH VU H | 2472 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 17995458 | User Equipment Assisted Carrier Aggregation | Apple Inc. | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 2478 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | AI Ready | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17933918 | Uplink Latency Enhancements | Apple Inc. | CHOI, WON JUN | 2411 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2022 |
| 17906492 | UE CAPABILITY AGGREGATION BETWEEN A PRIMARY UE AND A SECONDARY UE FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION | Apple Inc. | IM, THEODORE | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17905957 | UL GAP TRIGGERING | Apple Inc. | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 2465 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | AI Ready | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17754546 | Enhancement of PUCCH Transmissions | Apple Inc. | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
| 17754488 | L1 Inter-Cell Measurement Enhancement for Beam Management | Apple Inc. | ROUDANI, OUSSAMA | 2413 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Apr 04, 2022 |
| 17654470 | Enhancements for New Radio Devices with a Reduced Number of Antenna Branches | Apple Inc. | ASRES, HERMON | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
| 17249970 | Intelligent Measurement Handling | Apple Inc. | DEFAUW, THAD N | 2412 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Mar 19, 2021 |
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