Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bcf LLP (Huawei)

10 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
2
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

1
Hard (10%)
9
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only7 (70%)
§102 only1 (10%)
Double-patenting + other1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
4
Communications
40% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 1 84.4% +3.7%
PASHA, ATHAR N 1 89.7% +16.4%
GREINER, TRISTAN J 1 78.2% +20.8%
CORS, NATHAN M 1 77.6% +5.2%
BILODEAU, DUSTIN E 1 87.6% +6.7%
VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 1 80.0% +21.1%
ESPINOZA, ABIGAIL LEE 1 66.7% +42.9%
QURESHI, MARIAM 1 74.8% +23.7%
WU, NICHOLAS S 1 51.2% +39.5%
LEWIS, MATTHEW LEE 1 0.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18406902 METHODS AND PROCESSORS FOR EXECUTING ADAPTIVE FRAME GENERATION VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 28d overdue
18747173 HIGH PRIVACY DSP-BASED AUDIO ANONYMIZATION WITH AUDIO SEGMENTATION AND RANDOMIZATION PASHA, ATHAR N 15d
18428221 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING GAZE ESTIMATION WITH META PROMPTING BILODEAU, DUSTIN E 19d
18931215 FLEXIBLE-RATE POLAR DECODER -BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 71d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18485672 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A TRAJECTORY ESPINOZA, ABIGAIL LEE 29d overdue
17965304 PROCESSORS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A PREDICTION VALUE OF A NEURAL NETWORK LEWIS, MATTHEW LEE 10d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18485672 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A TRAJECTORY ESPINOZA, ABIGAIL LEE 29d overdue
18406902 METHODS AND PROCESSORS FOR EXECUTING ADAPTIVE FRAME GENERATION VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 28d overdue
18745181 METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY FOR A VEHICLE GREINER, TRISTAN J 3d overdue
18450068 SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE AND WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH QURESHI, MARIAM 6d
18747173 HIGH PRIVACY DSP-BASED AUDIO ANONYMIZATION WITH AUDIO SEGMENTATION AND RANDOMIZATION PASHA, ATHAR N 15d
18446170 METHODS AND PROCESSORS FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK WU, NICHOLAS S 41d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Huawei 10

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21121
26571
36561
26341
26641
26751
36571
28711
21481
21441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18931215 FLEXIBLE-RATE POLAR DECODER -BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 2112 DPOther Non-Final OA 71d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18747173 HIGH PRIVACY DSP-BASED AUDIO ANONYMIZATION WITH AUDIO SEGMENTATION AND RANDOMIZATION Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PASHA, ATHAR N 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18745181 METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY FOR A VEHICLE Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. GREINER, TRISTAN J 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18650954 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN ACCESS POINT AND A HUB OF A POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT OPTICAL NETWORK Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CORS, NATHAN M 2634 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18428221 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING GAZE ESTIMATION WITH META PROMPTING Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. BILODEAU, DUSTIN E 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18406902 METHODS AND PROCESSORS FOR EXECUTING ADAPTIVE FRAME GENERATION Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 2675 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18485672 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A TRAJECTORY Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ESPINOZA, ABIGAIL LEE 3657 §101 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18450068 SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE AND WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. QURESHI, MARIAM 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18446170 METHODS AND PROCESSORS FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. WU, NICHOLAS S 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Aug 08, 2023
17965304 PROCESSORS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A PREDICTION VALUE OF A NEURAL NETWORK Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. LEWIS, MATTHEW LEE 2144 §102 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2022

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