Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
59 pending office actions • 1 client • 54 examiners • 33 art units • 33 of 59 (56%) have an AI response strategy ready • 173 patents granted in the last 365 days
ArentFox Schiff, LLP and Qualcomm, Incorporated operates in the Networking & Security technology area, with 33493 career applications. This massive volume of work demonstrates extensive experience across the patent landscape. The firm is currently managing 45 pending office actions, indicating a focused active workload for this specific partnership.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 88.06, showing a high success rate across its large portfolio. Prosecution typically involves an avg office actions per allowance of 3.27. This average suggests that securing an allowance in Networking & Security often requires several rounds of negotiation with the USPTO.
The 88.06 resolved allowance rate pct across 33493 career applications underscores the firm's reliability as a large-scale prosecution partner. The 3.27 avg office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for clients expecting a thorough prosecution process. With 45 pending office actions, the firm continues to leverage its vast experience to achieve successful outcomes.
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.
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.
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 | 3 (5%) |
| §103 only | 32 (54%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 21 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN | 2 | 90.1% | +14.1% |
| SAIFUDDIN, AHMED | 2 | 82.2% | +23.3% |
| KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 2 | 53.3% | +8.8% |
| HUA, QUAN M | 2 | 72.5% | +21.0% |
| HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 2 | 68.2% | +27.3% |
| SHIN, KYUNG H | 1 | 82.0% | +10.5% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG N | 1 | 87.7% | +16.6% |
| LUGO, DAVID B | 1 | 78.8% | +2.6% |
| MUNION, JAMES E | 1 | 76.5% | +23.7% |
| HAILE, AWET A | 1 | 79.6% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18602914 | SIDELINK CARRIER AGGREGATION SET-UP, ACTIVATION, AND DEACTIVATION | SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN | — |
| 18554188 | A ROBUST RADIO LINK MONITORING METHOD | SAIFUDDIN, AHMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294511 | CSI-RS RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR CSI MEASUREMENT | TON, DANG T | 37d overdue |
| 18464054 | SENSING MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SENSING DIRECTION INDICATION | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 35d overdue |
| 18273471 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLICIT PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNALING IN TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATORS | KIM, SUN JONG | 12d |
| 18284280 | TECHNIQUES FOR RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL MESSAGE DELIVERY AND CONFIGURATION FOR REMOTE USER EQUIPMENT | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 15d |
| 18360774 | CSI REPORTING SUBBAND GRANULARITY CONFIGURATION IN FULL DUPLEXING | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 28d |
| 18685803 | UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (UCI) FOR NON-PRECODING MATRIX INDICATOR (PMI)-BASED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) | WYLLIE, CHRISTOPHER T | 56d |
| 18881238 | METHODS FOR DISCOVERY AND SIGNALING PROCEDURE FOR CLUSTERED AND PEER-TO-PEER FEDERATED LEARNING | SHIN, KYUNG H | — |
| 18875662 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EDGE APPLICATION SERVER MANAGEMENT BASED ON APPLICATION CLIENT OR USER EQUIPMENT STATE | NGUYEN, QUANG N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18464054 | SENSING MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SENSING DIRECTION INDICATION | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 35d overdue |
| 18567215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO AVOID NETWORK PRECODING ADJUSTMENT DURING BAND SHARING MSIM SCENARIOS | HUA, QUAN M | 16d |
| 17914243 | POWER CONTROL FOR WIRELESS SENSING | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 29d |
| 18881238 | METHODS FOR DISCOVERY AND SIGNALING PROCEDURE FOR CLUSTERED AND PEER-TO-PEER FEDERATED LEARNING | SHIN, KYUNG H | — |
| 18875662 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EDGE APPLICATION SERVER MANAGEMENT BASED ON APPLICATION CLIENT OR USER EQUIPMENT STATE | NGUYEN, QUANG N | — |
| 18874561 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
| 18874578 | QOS SPECIFIC BEAM PREDICTION | HAILE, AWET A | — |
| 18842012 | DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE AND MODEL TRAINING | SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Qualcomm | 59 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2472 | 3 |
| 2475 | 3 |
| 2415 | 3 |
| 2414 | 2 |
| 2465 | 2 |
| 2647 | 2 |
| 2419 | 2 |
| 2478 | 2 |
| 2645 | 2 |
| 3648 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881238 | METHODS FOR DISCOVERY AND SIGNALING PROCEDURE FOR CLUSTERED AND PEER-TO-PEER FEDERATED LEARNING | Qualcomm Incorporated | SHIN, KYUNG H | 2447 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18875662 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EDGE APPLICATION SERVER MANAGEMENT BASED ON APPLICATION CLIENT OR USER EQUIPMENT STATE | Qualcomm Incorporated | NGUYEN, QUANG N | 2453 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875693 | USER EQUIPMENT CONFIGURATION FOR DYNAMIC BASE STATION ANTENNA PORT ADAPTATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | LUGO, DAVID B | 2631 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874561 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18874578 | QOS SPECIFIC BEAM PREDICTION | Qualcomm Incorporated | HAILE, AWET A | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 | |
| 18972792 | POLAR ENCODING WITH PHASE ERROR PROTECTION | Qualcomm Incorporated | HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18953968 | PRIORITY BASED MAPPING OF ENCODED BITS TO SYMBOLS | Qualcomm Incorporated | NGUYEN, STEVE N | 2111 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | AI Ready | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18842012 | DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE AND MODEL TRAINING | Qualcomm Incorporated | SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 | |
| 18842023 | DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE AND MODEL TRAINING | Qualcomm Incorporated | CATTUNGAL, AJAY P | §102§103 | 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 | |
| 18840473 | PDCCH MONITORING SKIPPING AT CORESET LEVEL | Qualcomm Incorporated | TRUONG, LAN-HUONG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 18789119 | TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING CO-EXISTENCE OF RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | ASHLEY, HUGH MARK | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 | |
| 18708199 | SWITCHING BETWEEN FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH PARTS | Qualcomm Incorporated | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 2411 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | May 07, 2024 |
| 18653925 | ACKNOWLEDGMENT FEEDBACK FOR GROUPCAST OPTION 1 SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 2414 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18697719 | TRANSMIT POWER CONFIGURATIONS AT A PANEL OR BEAM LEVEL | Qualcomm Incorporated | GELIN, JEAN ALLAND | 2643 | §102§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 | Final Rejection | — | 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 |
| 18593091 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENERGY-AWARE SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18685803 | UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (UCI) FOR NON-PRECODING MATRIX INDICATOR (PMI)-BASED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) | Qualcomm Incorporated | WYLLIE, CHRISTOPHER T | 2465 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18443201 | SBFD-AWARE UE BEHAVIOR IN SFI-FL SYMBOL WITH UL-SB | Qualcomm Incorporated | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 2414 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18294511 | CSI-RS RESOURCE CONFIGURATION FOR CSI MEASUREMENT | Qualcomm Incorporated | TON, DANG T | 2476 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18424429 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENABLING USER EQUIPMENT SENSING IN DOWNLINK SLOTS | Qualcomm Incorporated | HUYNH, NAM TRUNG | 2647 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18412398 | POWER SAVING IN 802.11 DEVICES | Qualcomm Incorporated | DUONG, THAO DUC | 2446 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | AI Ready | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18408468 | PARTIAL CBG BASED LINK ADAPTATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES | 2419 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18405489 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING RADIO LINK FAILURE RECOVERY | Qualcomm Incorporated | CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL | 2478 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18567215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO AVOID NETWORK PRECODING ADJUSTMENT DURING BAND SHARING MSIM SCENARIOS | Qualcomm Incorporated | HUA, QUAN M | 2645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | AI Ready | Dec 05, 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 |
| 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 |
| 18554188 | A ROBUST RADIO LINK MONITORING METHOD | Qualcomm Incorporated | SAIFUDDIN, AHMED | 2475 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 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 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18468495 | RACH CONSIDERATIONS UNDER BEAM BASED SSB POWER FOR NETWORK ENERGY SAVING | Qualcomm Incorporated | IM, THEODORE | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18464054 | SENSING MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SENSING DIRECTION INDICATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18280073 | RECEIVE ASSISTED LISTEN BEFORE TALK WITH MULTIPLE CANDIDATE BEAMS | Qualcomm Incorporated | DIVECHA, NISHANT B | 2419 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18277047 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A BASE STATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK | Qualcomm Incorporated | SHAH, CHIRAG G | 2477 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18447841 | TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX (TDD) CARRIER AGGREGATION (CA) WITH NON-CELL DEFINING (NCD) SIGNALING | Qualcomm Incorporated | ZHAO, YONGHONG | 2472 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | AI Ready | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18365801 | EXTENDED WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING | Qualcomm Incorporated | OH, ANDREW CHUNG SUK | 2466 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | AI Ready | Aug 04, 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 |
| 18360774 | CSI REPORTING SUBBAND GRANULARITY CONFIGURATION IN FULL DUPLEXING | Qualcomm Incorporated | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 2474 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | AI Ready | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18273471 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLICIT PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNALING IN TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATORS | Qualcomm Incorporated | KIM, SUN JONG | 2469 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 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 |
| 18191837 | MULTIPLE PAYLOAD REGIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | AGUREYEV, VLADISLAV Y | 2471 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18023237 | TRANSFERRING DATA SEGMENTS AFTER PERFORMING A RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL (RACH) PROCEDURE | Qualcomm Incorporated | ACOLATSE, KODZOVI | 2478 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17924615 | UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (UCI) MULTIPLEXING FOR MULTI-SLOT PHYSICAL UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL (PUSCH) WITH TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE (TBS) SCALING | Qualcomm Incorporated | MAK, RODRICK | 2416 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17924240 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING SUPPLEMENTARY UPLINK SUPPORT FOR HALF-DUPLEX FDD UE | Qualcomm Incorporated | VOLTAIRE, JEAN F | 2417 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 17938039 | CITIZEN BROADCAST RADIO SPECTRUM (CBRS) OPERATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2415 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17914243 | POWER CONTROL FOR WIRELESS SENSING | Qualcomm Incorporated | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | AI Ready | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17797061 | REPETITION OF INFORMATION IN A TRANSMISSION BURST | Qualcomm Incorporated | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 2471 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Aug 02, 2022 |
| 17796393 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING AN ADAPTIVE CODING RATE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | CHAKRAVARTHY, LATHA | 2461 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17759508 | SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION FOR AT LEAST TWO TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION POINTS | Qualcomm Incorporated | SMITH, JOSHUA Y | 2477 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
| 17451318 | METHOD AND APPARATUSES FOR ACCESSING UNLICENSED AND LICENSED FREQUENCY BANDS | Qualcomm Incorporated | HUYNH, CHUCK | 2644 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Oct 18, 2021 |
| 17316605 | SCALABLE SIZING OF TRANSPORT BLOCKS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | TRAN, THINH D | 2466 | §112 | Final Rejection | 27d | AI Ready | May 10, 2021 |
| 16816404 | PRIORITIZING COLLIDING TRANSMISSIONS IN LTE AND ULTRA-LOW LATENCY LTE COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | THAI, CAMQUYEN | 2465 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | AI Ready | Mar 12, 2020 |
| 16058915 | SIGNALING USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITY INFORMATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | PEREZ, JOSE L | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 08, 2018 |
| 15456163 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSIONS DURING URLLC | Qualcomm Incorporated | TACDIRAN, ANDRE GEE | 2415 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 10, 2017 |
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