Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Arentfox Schiff, LLP And QUALCOMM, Incorporated

60 pending office actions • 1 client • 57 examiners • 31 art units • 28 of 60 (47%) have an AI response strategy ready • 182 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=33105 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.1%
Allowance Rate
n=33105
+0.53σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=33105
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=22173
-0.12σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=22173
1015 days
Time to Allowance
n=22173
+7.4pp
Interview Lift
n=33105
28.9%
RCE Rate
n=33105
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=33105

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

81.6%
§101 Overcome
n=3320
80.4%
§102 Overcome
n=9027
80.9%
§103 Overcome
n=14466
81.1%
§112 Overcome
n=8656

Specialization & Scale

H04L, H04W, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=33105
20
Practitioners
n=33105
1655.2
Apps / Practitioner
n=33105

Portfolio Summary

60
Total Pending OAs
36
Non-Final OAs
18
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
8
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

21
Hard (35%)
36
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (3%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (5%)
§103 only34 (57%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)18 (30%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
48
Information Tech
80% of docket
4
Communications
7% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
3% of docket
6
Business / Other
10% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

600 h
Manual time on pending OAs
120 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
210 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KO, SITHU 2 86.6% +15.5%
OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2 76.7% +16.2%
HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 2 70.7% +25.8%
SOLINSKY, PETER G 1 89.4% +1.9%
HIGA, BRENDAN Y 1 85.8% +8.5%
SAIFUDDIN, AHMED 1 82.1% +22.2%
KHIRODHAR, MAHARISHI V 1 87.4% +12.6%
ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE 1 70.4% +18.8%
SORRELL, ERON J 1 80.7% +7.0%
LOUIS, VINNCELAS 1 80.3% +34.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18744523 Untitled SOLINSKY, PETER G
18781448 UU DORMANCY AND SIDELINK TRANSMISSION GRANT KO, SITHU
18580404 CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) PRIORITY AND MULTIPLEXING FOR APERIODIC CSI REPORTING KO, SITHU

Hard Cases (21)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18464054 SENSING MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SENSING DIRECTION INDICATION HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 35d overdue
17928887 TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING SUPPLEMENTARY DOWNLINK SUPPORT FOR HALF-DUPLEX UE FAN, GUOXING 6d
18262565 IDENTIFICATION OF A SLOT FOR SOUNDING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION TODD, GREGORY G 8d
18284280 TECHNIQUES FOR RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL MESSAGE DELIVERY AND CONFIGURATION FOR REMOTE USER EQUIPMENT BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 15d
18841919 DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE AND MODEL TRAINING HIGA, BRENDAN Y
18841252 REDUCED COMPLEXITY CAPABILITY FOR UPLINK TRANSMIT SWITCHING SAIFUDDIN, AHMED
18837845 TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN EXISTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEPLOYMENTS KHIRODHAR, MAHARISHI V
18837806 TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING DEVICES FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18464054 SENSING MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SENSING DIRECTION INDICATION HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 35d overdue
17914243 POWER CONTROL FOR WIRELESS SENSING HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 29d
18841252 REDUCED COMPLEXITY CAPABILITY FOR UPLINK TRANSMIT SWITCHING SAIFUDDIN, AHMED
18837845 TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN EXISTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEPLOYMENTS KHIRODHAR, MAHARISHI V
18837806 TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING DEVICES FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE
18781448 UU DORMANCY AND SIDELINK TRANSMISSION GRANT KO, SITHU
18717400 SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF SUPPLEMENTARY UPLINK CARRIERS LOUIS, VINNCELAS
18622648 6G VIRTUAL CELL WITH DIFFERENT NUMEROLOGIES FOR DIFFERENT SUB-BANDS OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Qualcomm 60

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24744
24754
24714
24763
24723
24693
24632
24142
26432
24112

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18744523 Untitled Qualcomm Incorporated SOLINSKY, PETER G 2463 §102 Non-Final OA Pending
18841919 DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE AND MODEL TRAINING Qualcomm Incorporated HIGA, BRENDAN Y §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 27, 2024
18841252 REDUCED COMPLEXITY CAPABILITY FOR UPLINK TRANSMIT SWITCHING Qualcomm Incorporated SAIFUDDIN, AHMED §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18837845 TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN EXISTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEPLOYMENTS Qualcomm Incorporated KHIRODHAR, MAHARISHI V §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 2024
18837806 TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING DEVICES FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK Qualcomm Incorporated ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 2024
18786358 USER EQUIPMENT (UE) INITIATED GRANT REQUEST Qualcomm Incorporated SORRELL, ERON J 3992 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18781448 UU DORMANCY AND SIDELINK TRANSMISSION GRANT Qualcomm Incorporated KO, SITHU §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18717400 SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF SUPPLEMENTARY UPLINK CARRIERS Qualcomm Incorporated LOUIS, VINNCELAS 2474 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2024
18716442 TECHNIQUES FOR CODEBOOK SUBSET RESTRICTION FOR ADAPTIVE ANTENNA ARRAYS Qualcomm Incorporated SAMARA, LOUIS 2476 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 04, 2024
18715575 TECHNIQUES FOR RETRANSMITTING FEEDBACK IN SIDELINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated SLOMS, NICHOLAS 2476 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18672810 MANAGING ACKNOWLEDGMENT (ACK) TO NEGATIVE ACK (A2N) ERRORS Qualcomm Incorporated MERED, HABTE 2474 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2024
18709778 COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICES Qualcomm Incorporated KAYAL, DAVID M 2464 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18653925 ACKNOWLEDGMENT FEEDBACK FOR GROUPCAST OPTION 1 SIDELINK COMMUNICATION Qualcomm Incorporated NGUYEN, STEVEN H D 2414 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2024
18697719 TRANSMIT POWER CONFIGURATIONS AT A PANEL OR BEAM LEVEL Qualcomm Incorporated GELIN, JEAN ALLAND 2643 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Apr 01, 2024
18622648 6G VIRTUAL CELL WITH DIFFERENT NUMEROLOGIES FOR DIFFERENT SUB-BANDS Qualcomm Incorporated OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2472 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Mar 29, 2024
18602914 SIDELINK CARRIER AGGREGATION SET-UP, ACTIVATION, AND DEACTIVATION Qualcomm Incorporated SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN 2418 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Mar 12, 2024
18294511 CSI-RS RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR CSI MEASUREMENT Qualcomm Incorporated TON, DANG T 2476 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue AI Ready Feb 01, 2024
18580404 CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) PRIORITY AND MULTIPLEXING FOR APERIODIC CSI REPORTING Qualcomm Incorporated KO, SITHU 2414 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Jan 18, 2024
18413926 PHYSICAL UPLINK CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS IN SUB-BAND FULL DUPLEX SYMBOLS Qualcomm Incorporated QIN, ZHIREN 2411 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Jan 16, 2024
18409740 TIMER OPERATION FOR MULTI-STAGE DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (DCI) Qualcomm Incorporated SHAHEED, KHALID W 2643 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue AI Ready Jan 10, 2024
18578170 USER EQUIPMENT (UE) UPLINK TRANSMISSION FOR RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL (RACH) PROCEDURES IN HALF DUPLEX FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX (HD-FDD) MODE Qualcomm Incorporated REYES ORTIZ, HECTOR E 2472 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2024
18408468 PARTIAL CBG BASED LINK ADAPTATION Qualcomm Incorporated BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Jan 09, 2024
18562269 NEIGHBOR CELL INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT Qualcomm Incorporated CHOI, EUNSOOK 2467 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 17, 2023
18504979 EXTENDING TWT INFORMATION FRAME FUNCTIONALITY OPERATION AND SIGNALING FOR ENHANCED LOW LATENCY AND POWER SAVINGS Qualcomm Incorporated TORRES, MARCOS L 2647 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2023
18499712 SINGLE DCI AND MULTIPLE TRP UNIFIED TCI ACTIVATION DESIGN Qualcomm Incorporated GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR 2466 §102 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Nov 01, 2023
18499772 CSI-RS INTRA-FREQUENCY AND INTER-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT Qualcomm Incorporated REYES, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2475 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 01, 2023
18493739 ON-DEMAND SSB POWER AND REPETITION FACTOR REQUEST Qualcomm Incorporated YANG, ZHAOHUI 2468 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2023
18483804 TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING MULTIPLEXING OF UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 29d AI Ready Oct 10, 2023
18483314 SSB-LESS OPERATION FOR INTER-BAND CARRIER AGGREGATION Qualcomm Incorporated CHOWDHURY, FAHMIDA S 2471 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2023
18284280 TECHNIQUES FOR RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL MESSAGE DELIVERY AND CONFIGURATION FOR REMOTE USER EQUIPMENT Qualcomm Incorporated BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 2454 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 15d AI Ready Sep 26, 2023
18471997 ENHANCEMENT FOR HARQ ACK FOR MESSAGE 4 OR MESSAGE B Qualcomm Incorporated VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA 2468 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 21, 2023
18464054 SENSING MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SENSING DIRECTION INDICATION Qualcomm Incorporated HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 3648 §102§112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18277047 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A BASE STATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK Qualcomm Incorporated SHAH, CHIRAG G 2477 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue AI Ready Aug 11, 2023
18274972 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING COHERENT MIMO CAPABILITY Qualcomm Incorporated ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE 2469 §103§112 Non-Final OA AI Ready Jul 28, 2023
18262565 IDENTIFICATION OF A SLOT FOR SOUNDING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION Qualcomm Incorporated TODD, GREGORY G 2443 §103§112 Non-Final OA 8d AI Ready Jul 21, 2023
18273471 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLICIT PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNALING IN TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATORS Qualcomm Incorporated KIM, SUN JONG 2469 §103 Final Rejection 12d AI Ready Jul 20, 2023
18272984 COMMON BEAM INDICATION/ACTIVATION FOR SEPARATE TCI LIST TO PHYSICAL CHANNELS Qualcomm Incorporated HUA, QUAN M 2645 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2023
18261476 OPTIMIZED RADIO LINK FAILURE RECOVERY FOR CELLS REPORTED IN MEASUREMENT REPORT Qualcomm Incorporated TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M 2469 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 13, 2023
18330832 TECHNIQUES FOR UPLINK TRANSMITTER FREQUENCY RESOURCE SWITCHING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated GHOWRWAL, OMAR J 2463 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Jun 07, 2023
18324809 INTER-UE INTERFERENCE MITIGATION BASED ON UPLINK POWER CONTROL Qualcomm Incorporated ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H 2474 §103 Final Rejection 29d AI Ready May 26, 2023
18036138 CONGESTION CONTROL FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION Qualcomm Incorporated CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18304091 DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION BY BASE STATION FOR ENERGY SAVING Qualcomm Incorporated IM, THEODORE 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 86d AI Ready Apr 20, 2023
18191837 MULTIPLE PAYLOAD REGIONS Qualcomm Incorporated AGUREYEV, VLADISLAV Y 2471 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2023
18043261 MULTIPLEXING OF OVERLAPPED UPLINK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION REPETITIONS Qualcomm Incorporated HO, CHUONG T 2412 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2023
18063034 RATE-SPLITTING MULTIPLE ACCESS MESSAGING WITH REPETITION Qualcomm Incorporated WASEL, SHIMA MOHAMED 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 21d AI Ready Dec 07, 2022
17928887 TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING SUPPLEMENTARY DOWNLINK SUPPORT FOR HALF-DUPLEX UE Qualcomm Incorporated FAN, GUOXING 2462 §102§103 Non-Final OA 6d AI Ready Nov 30, 2022
17924240 TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING SUPPLEMENTARY UPLINK SUPPORT FOR HALF-DUPLEX FDD UE Qualcomm Incorporated VOLTAIRE, JEAN F 2417 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 09, 2022
18052891 UPLINK GAP CONFIGURATION Qualcomm Incorporated SUGDEN, NOAH JAMES 2475 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 2022
18049261 CONFIGURED GRANTS AND SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING FALLING IN A PARTIALLY FULL DUPLEX SLOT Qualcomm Incorporated WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL 2415 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Oct 24, 2022
18048309 TECHNIQUES FOR INDICATING SKIPPING A DISCONTINUOUS RECEIVE ACTIVE DURATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated CHOI, WON JUN 2411 §103§112 Final Rejection AI Ready Oct 20, 2022
17938039 CITIZEN BROADCAST RADIO SPECTRUM (CBRS) OPERATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated OVEISSI, MANSOUR 2415 §103§112 Non-Final OA AI Ready Oct 04, 2022
17934838 UE ASSISTED HANDOVER TO SECONDARY CELL VIA BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY Qualcomm Incorporated HUANG, WEIBIN 2471 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Sep 23, 2022
17914243 POWER CONTROL FOR WIRELESS SENSING Qualcomm Incorporated HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 3648 §103 Final Rejection 29d AI Ready Sep 23, 2022
17820869 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FLOW-BASED TRAFFIC CATEGORIZATION FOR DEVICE OPTIMIZATION Qualcomm Incorporated NGUYEN, THUONG 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17797061 REPETITION OF INFORMATION IN A TRANSMISSION BURST Qualcomm Incorporated KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §102§103 Final Rejection AI Ready Aug 02, 2022
17816569 TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING INTER-NETWORK NODE INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2472 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Aug 01, 2022
17714946 ADAPTIVE SENSING AND SENSOR RECONFIGURATION IN PERCEPTIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Qualcomm Incorporated DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 06, 2022
17316605 SCALABLE SIZING OF TRANSPORT BLOCKS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS Qualcomm Incorporated TRAN, THINH D 2466 §112 Final Rejection 27d AI Ready May 10, 2021
16735504 HANDLING OF CHANNEL ACCESS PROBLEMS Qualcomm Incorporated VU, HUY DUY 2461 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2020
16058915 SIGNALING USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITY INFORMATION Qualcomm Incorporated PEREZ, JOSE L 2474 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue AI Ready Aug 08, 2018

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