Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Burr & Forman LLP - Nokia

24 pending office actions • 1 client • 24 examiners • 17 art units • 8 of 24 (33%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=4701 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.7%
Allowance Rate
n=4701
+0.56σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4701
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=2851
-0.43σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=2851
988 days
Time to Allowance
n=2851
+5.8pp
Interview Lift
n=4701
26.7%
RCE Rate
n=4701
4.6%
Appeal Rate
n=4701

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

63.5%
§101 Overcome
n=301
73.2%
§102 Overcome
n=1125
74.0%
§103 Overcome
n=1797
77.9%
§112 Overcome
n=1272

Specialization & Scale

A24F, A01D, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4701
6
Practitioners
n=4701
783.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=4701

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

4
Hard (17%)
19
Medium (79%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (54%)
§102 only6 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (17%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
54% of docket
5
Communications
21% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
5
Business / Other
21% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAMZA, FARUK 1 65.5% +42.6%
ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 1 79.1% +3.1%
NGUYEN, KHAI MINH 1 87.1% +4.5%
LOUIS-FILS, NICOLE M 1 72.2% +34.9%
TAYLOR, BARRY W 1 75.2% +4.6%
NGUYEN, LIEM HONG 1 72.5% +23.1%
BATAILLE, FRANTZ 1 81.8% +0.5%
CHEN, PETER 1 87.6% +22.2%
LY, ANH VU H 1 89.2% -0.2%
AUNG, SAI 1 88.4% +4.0%

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
19123173 POSITIONING NGUYEN, KHAI MINH
18792245 PRIORITIZATION OF EMISSION REQUIREMENTS BASED ON SPECIAL-PURPOSE FEATURES SUPPORTED BY A USER EQUIPMENT BATAILLE, FRANTZ
18725375 METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATED TO CONFIGURING USER EQUIPMENT FOR LOWER LAYER INTER-CELL MOBILITY LY, ANH VU H
18680508 USER EQUIPMENT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT DURING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION AUNG, SAI

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19125470 POLICY BASED ACTIVATION OF CAPABILITIES ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N
18888296 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM NGUYEN, LIEM HONG
18834569 PROCEDURE SELECTION FOR SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION CHEN, PETER
18579087 UPDATE OF MN-INITIATED INTER-SN CONDITIONAL PSCELL CHANGE OBAYANJU, OMONIYI

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18707640 Untitled HAMZA, FARUK
18966295 PATH SWITCH BETWEEN RELAYS AND SECURITY PROCEDURES LOUIS-FILS, NICOLE M
18888296 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM NGUYEN, LIEM HONG
18834569 PROCEDURE SELECTION FOR SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION CHEN, PETER

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Nokia 24

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24663
24571
26411
26461
24091
24671
36481
24331
26421
24721

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18707640 Untitled Nokia Technologies Oy HAMZA, FARUK 2466 §102 Non-Final OA Pending
19125470 POLICY BASED ACTIVATION OF CAPABILITIES Nokia Technologies Oy ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2457 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2025
19123173 POSITIONING Nokia Technologies Oy NGUYEN, KHAI MINH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2025
18966295 PATH SWITCH BETWEEN RELAYS AND SECURITY PROCEDURES Nokia Technologies Oy LOUIS-FILS, NICOLE M 2641 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 03, 2024
18910753 HANDLING EMERGENCY ACCESS Nokia Technologies Oy TAYLOR, BARRY W 2646 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Oct 09, 2024
18888296 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Nokia Technologies Oy NGUYEN, LIEM HONG §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2024
18792245 PRIORITIZATION OF EMISSION REQUIREMENTS BASED ON SPECIAL-PURPOSE FEATURES SUPPORTED BY A USER EQUIPMENT Nokia Technologies Oy BATAILLE, FRANTZ §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2024
18834569 PROCEDURE SELECTION FOR SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION Nokia Technologies Oy CHEN, PETER §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2024
18725375 METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATED TO CONFIGURING USER EQUIPMENT FOR LOWER LAYER INTER-CELL MOBILITY Nokia Technologies Oy LY, ANH VU H §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18680508 USER EQUIPMENT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT DURING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION Nokia Technologies Oy AUNG, SAI 2409 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18655866 CLI MEASUREMENT REPORTING IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Nokia Technologies Oy AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR 2466 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending May 06, 2024
18695652 CONFIGURING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE Nokia Technologies Oy HUDA, MUHAMMAD AINUL 2467 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 26, 2024
18691288 METHOD AND DEVICES FOR TIMING ERROR MITIGATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIVE TIME OF ARRIVAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY Nokia Technologies Oy SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3648 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue AI Ready Mar 12, 2024
18588870 VERIFICATION OF USER EQUIPMENT COMPLIANCE IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK ENVIRONMENT Nokia Technologies Oy ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 2433 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Feb 27, 2024
18293897 APPARATUS, METHODS, FOR APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATION FUNCTION INCLUDING NON-TERESTRIAL ACCESS POINT Nokia Technologies Oy PANNELL, MARK G 2642 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2024
18293740 HANDLING AN EVENT IN A SIDELINK GROUP Nokia Technologies Oy ALAWDI, SHEHAB A 2466 §102 Final Rejection 4d overdue AI Ready Jan 30, 2024
18293205 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSIONS VIA UNLICENSED RADIO CHANNELS Nokia Technologies Oy OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2472 §103 Final Rejection 26d AI Ready Jan 29, 2024
18423729 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Nokia Technologies Oy WILLIAMS, ELTON S 2465 §102 Final Rejection 37d overdue AI Ready Jan 26, 2024
18291440 ENHANCED RELAYING IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Nokia Technologies Oy BAIG, ADNAN 2461 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Jan 23, 2024
18579087 UPDATE OF MN-INITIATED INTER-SN CONDITIONAL PSCELL CHANGE Nokia Technologies Oy OBAYANJU, OMONIYI 2645 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18522999 ENERGY EFFICIENCY CONTROL MECHANISM Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy BARKER, TODD L 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18376478 Apparatus, Method, and Computer Program Nokia Technologies Oy TRAN, CONGVAN 2647 §102 Final Rejection 71d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18550259 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SMALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS IN INACTIVE STATE Nokia Technologies Oy HOANG, THAI D 2463 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue AI Ready Sep 12, 2023
17767515 Apparatus, Method, and Computer Program Nokia Technologies Oy HARLEY, JASON A 2468 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Apr 08, 2022

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