Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Gray Ice Higdon (Intel)

50 pending office actions • 1 client • 49 examiners • 34 art units • 26 of 50 (52%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=13327 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.3%
Allowance Rate
n=13327
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=13327
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=7205
-0.28σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=7205
961 days
Time to Allowance
n=7205
+4.2pp
Interview Lift
n=13327
28.4%
RCE Rate
n=13327
4.2%
Appeal Rate
n=13327

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

79.9%
§101 Overcome
n=239
84.0%
§102 Overcome
n=771
85.0%
§103 Overcome
n=4153
87.2%
§112 Overcome
n=515

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G10L
Top CPC Subclasses
36%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=13327
6
Practitioners
n=13327
2221.2
Apps / Practitioner
n=13327

Portfolio Summary

50
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
25
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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.

6
Hard (12%)
40
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (2%)
3
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§101 + other1 (2%)
§103 only34 (68%)
§102 only6 (12%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (8%)
No statute on record3 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
2% of docket
29
Information Tech
58% of docket
6
Communications
12% of docket
6
Semiconductors
12% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
8
Business / Other
16% 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.

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

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN 2 76.7% -2.3%
CORRIELUS, JEAN B 1 89.6% +15.6%
SCOTT, RANDY A 1 84.6% -2.1%
LIPMAN, JACOB 1 83.2% +12.6%
KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN 1 70.5% +42.3%
PARK, CHONGSUH 1 59.8% +18.2%
OLUBODUN, AYODELE LAWRENCE 1 88.9% +17.6%
CHERY, DADY 1 88.0% +9.3%
WEISSBERGER, LUNA T 1 75.0% +24.7%
PHAM, TITO Q 1 72.2% +19.1%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18935069 BLOCKCHAIN-INTEGRATED AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS FOR FIFTH GENERATION COMMUNICATION NETWORKS LIPMAN, JACOB 5d overdue

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18549316 ENHANCED INTRA-USER EQUIPMENT PRIORITIZATION FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS SEFCHECK, GREGORY B 17d overdue
18324041 ADVANCED PREEMPTION TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED NETWORK PERFORMANCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR 17d overdue
18193861 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HARDENING A TRANSISTOR LOGIC GATE TURNER, BRIAN 62d
18881719 ENHANCED QUALITY OF SERVICE-LEVEL SECURITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SCOTT, RANDY A
18575829 MEASUREMENTS AND LOCATION DATA SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT DATA ANALYTICS (MDA) FOR COVERAGE PROBLEM ANALYSIS VU, MICHAEL T
18089411 ENHANCED STATIC-DYNAMIC STRESS TECHNIQUES TO ACCELERATE LATENT DEFECTS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18935069 BLOCKCHAIN-INTEGRATED AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS FOR FIFTH GENERATION COMMUNICATION NETWORKS LIPMAN, JACOB 5d overdue
18650075 ENHANCED FRAME EXCHANGE AND MULTI-LINK DEVICE MESSAGING FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS PHAM, TITO Q 90d
19111278 ENHANCED CONFIGURATION OF CHANNEL SOUNDING SIGNAL FOR BANDWIDTH STITCHING FOR WIRELESS DEVICE POSITIONING CORRIELUS, JEAN B
18885504 REDUCTION OF TIME-DOMAIN CORRELATION FOR SECURE SOUNDING SIGNAL KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN
18833815 SIDELINK CHANNELS FOR A SIDELINK SYSTEM OPERATING IN AN UNLICENSED BAND PARK, CHONGSUH
18833369 CHANNEL ACCESS SENSING AND FREQUENCY INTERLACING FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION OLUBODUN, AYODELE LAWRENCE
18723346 DYNAMIC HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (HARQ-ACK) CODEBOOK DETERMINATION WEISSBERGER, LUNA T

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Intel 50

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24662
24112
24182
24692
26472
24762
24772
28582
24391
24341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19111278 ENHANCED CONFIGURATION OF CHANNEL SOUNDING SIGNAL FOR BANDWIDTH STITCHING FOR WIRELESS DEVICE POSITIONING Intel Corporation CORRIELUS, JEAN B Non-Final OA Pending
18881719 ENHANCED QUALITY OF SERVICE-LEVEL SECURITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Intel Corporation SCOTT, RANDY A 2439 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2025
18935069 BLOCKCHAIN-INTEGRATED AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS FOR FIFTH GENERATION COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Intel Corporation LIPMAN, JACOB 2434 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue AI Ready Nov 01, 2024
18885504 REDUCTION OF TIME-DOMAIN CORRELATION FOR SECURE SOUNDING SIGNAL Intel Corporation KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN 2492 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Sep 13, 2024
18833815 SIDELINK CHANNELS FOR A SIDELINK SYSTEM OPERATING IN AN UNLICENSED BAND Intel Corporation PARK, CHONGSUH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18833369 CHANNEL ACCESS SENSING AND FREQUENCY INTERLACING FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION Intel Corporation OLUBODUN, AYODELE LAWRENCE Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18773221 PREAMBLE FOR EXTREMELY HIGH THROUGHPUT TRIGGER BASED PHYSICAL LAYER PROTOCOL DATA UNIT Intel Corporation CHERY, DADY Non-Final OA Pending Jul 15, 2024
18723346 DYNAMIC HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (HARQ-ACK) CODEBOOK DETERMINATION Intel Corporation WEISSBERGER, LUNA T §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 21, 2024
18650075 ENHANCED FRAME EXCHANGE AND MULTI-LINK DEVICE MESSAGING FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS Intel Corporation PHAM, TITO Q 2466 §103 Final Rejection 90d AI Ready Apr 29, 2024
18575833 ENHANCED MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL ELEMENT-BASED UPLINK TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR STATE SWITCHING DELAY WITH PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNAL Intel Corporation HENSON, JAMAAL R 2411 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2023
18575829 MEASUREMENTS AND LOCATION DATA SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT DATA ANALYTICS (MDA) FOR COVERAGE PROBLEM ANALYSIS Intel Corporation VU, MICHAEL T 2641 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2023
18575841 PILOT TONES OF DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE UNIT (DRU) Intel Corporation BELETE, BERHANU D 2418 §102 Final Rejection 45d overdue AI Ready Dec 30, 2023
18575845 NON-TRIGGER BASED (TB) SENSING MEASUREMENT FLOW FOR 11bf IN THE SUB-7 GHZ Intel Corporation ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y 2455 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Dec 30, 2023
18401043 ACKNOWLEDGMENT PROTOCOL PROTECTION Intel Corporation CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2023
18401152 ADVANCED PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT Intel Corporation ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2023
18572692 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT CONFIGURATION OF TIME SYNCHRONIZATION SERVICES IN 5G SYSTEMS Intel Corporation AMBAYE, MEWALE A 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 56d AI Ready Dec 20, 2023
18571718 ENHANCED MULTIPLEXING OF UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION WITH DIFFERENT PHYSICAL LAYER PRIORITIES Intel Corporation MILLER, BRANDON J 2647 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue AI Ready Dec 18, 2023
18560001 VALID PDSCHS OR PUSCHS WITH MULTIPLE PDSCH OR PUSCH SCHEDULING Intel Corporation CLAWSON, STEPHEN J 2461 §103 Final Rejection 82d AI Ready Nov 09, 2023
18559990 TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCED PHASE TRACKING REFERENCE SIGNAL OPERATION Intel Corporation ABELSON, RONALD B 2476 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue AI Ready Nov 09, 2023
18558604 CHARGING FOR EDGE ENABLING INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCES Intel Corporation CARDONE, JASON D 2458 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue AI Ready Nov 02, 2023
18558700 RADIO ACCESS NETWORK COMPUTING SERVICE SUPPORT WITH DISTRIBUTED UNITS Intel Corporation SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN 2418 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue AI Ready Nov 02, 2023
18553552 DATA FUNCTIONS AND PROCEDURES IN THE NON-REAL TIME RADIO ACCESS NETWORK INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER Intel Corporation TULOP, JIRAPON INTAVONG 2693 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 30, 2023
18553322 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POWER HEADROOM REPORTING FOR MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION RECEPTION POINT (MULTI-TRP) TRANSMISSIONS Intel Corporation VO, DON NGUYEN 2634 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready Sep 29, 2023
18550092 DEFAULT BEAM OPERATIONS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS Intel Corporation TANG, KIET G 2469 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 11, 2023
18549805 SINGLE TRP AND MULTIPLE TRP DYNAMIC SWITCHING FOR SINGLE DCI BASED PUSCH TRANSMISSIONS Intel Corporation RENNER, BRANDON M 2411 §103 Final Rejection 14d AI Ready Sep 08, 2023
18549526 MSG3 PHYSICAL UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL (PUSCH) REPETITION REQUESTS Intel Corporation AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED 2463 §102 Final Rejection 17d overdue AI Ready Sep 07, 2023
18549316 ENHANCED INTRA-USER EQUIPMENT PRIORITIZATION FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS Intel Corporation SEFCHECK, GREGORY B 2477 §102§112 Final Rejection 17d overdue AI Ready Sep 06, 2023
18549329 TIME-DOMAIN RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR TRANSPORT BLOCK OVER MULTIPLE SLOT (TBOMS) TRANSMISSIONS Intel Corporation KWAK, JAEYOUNG 2472 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 06, 2023
18548874 ENHANCED WIRELESS DEVICE MEASUREMENT GAP PRE-CONFIGURATION, ACTIVATION, AND CONCURRENCY Intel Corporation ISLAM, ROWNAK 2474 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 01, 2023
18548330 Time Domain Resource Allocation for Multi-Channel Data Transmissions in 5G Wireless Networks Intel Corporation RIVAS, SALVADOR E 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue AI Ready Aug 29, 2023
18548205 HARQ-ACK TRANSMISSION Intel Corporation ULYSSE, JAEL M 2477 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 28, 2023
18352810 MOBILITY FEATURES FOR NEXT GENERATION CELLULAR NETWORKS Intel Corporation SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL 2646 §102 Final Rejection 44d overdue AI Ready Jul 14, 2023
18344096 SIGNALING REGULATORY INFORMATION FOR RADIO LOCAL AREA NETWORK MOBILE DEVICES AT 6 GHZ BAND Intel Corporation MORLAN, ROBERT M 2409 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 29, 2023
18324041 ADVANCED PREEMPTION TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED NETWORK PERFORMANCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Intel Corporation GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR 2466 §102§103 Final Rejection 17d overdue AI Ready May 25, 2023
18254121 CONVERGED CHARGING FOR EDGE ENABLING RESOURCE USAGE AND APPLICATION CONTEXT TRANSFER Intel Corporation CHANG, JUNGWON 2454 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 23, 2023
18317859 MULTI-USER ENCODING FOR UNEQUAL MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME ASSIGNMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Intel Corporation CHASE, SHELLY A §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2023
18193861 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HARDENING A TRANSISTOR LOGIC GATE Intel Corporation TURNER, BRIAN 2818 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18187511 ENHANCED MAPPING OF TRAFFIC IDENTIFIERS TO NON-COLLOCATED ACCESS POINTS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Intel Corporation HUYNH, NAM TRUNG 2647 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2023
18148414 TARGET WAKE FOR MULTI-LINK OPERATION RESTRICTIONS Intel Corporation KAUR, PAMIT 2416 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2022
18090415 ENHANCED ELECTRON BEAM (E-BEAM) APPARATUS AND METHODOLOGY WITH NANO-SCALE E-BEAM PROBE TIPS FOR FAULT ISOLATION IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND OTHER STRUCTURES Intel Corporation BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN 2858 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2022
18147644 FABRICATION OF NOVEL DEVICES USING ION BEAMS Intel Corporation WALL, VINCENT 2898 DP Final Rejection 15d overdue AI Ready Dec 28, 2022
18147636 ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHY AND NANOENGINEERING Intel Corporation TRAN, BINH X 1713 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2022
18089411 ENHANCED STATIC-DYNAMIC STRESS TECHNIQUES TO ACCELERATE LATENT DEFECTS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Intel Corporation BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN 2858 §102§103§112 Final Rejection AI Ready Dec 27, 2022
18089546 SCAN CHAIN DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY USING HIGH VOLUME MANUFACTURING FUNCTIONAL TESTING Intel Corporation DOAN, NGHIA M 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue AI Ready Dec 27, 2022
18145763 SENSING MEASUREMENT REPORT FOR SENSING BY PROXY Intel Corporation LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 2414 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2022
18145710 ENHANCED SIGNALING OF ADDITION AND DELETION OF COMMUNICATION LINKS FOR MULTI-LINK DEVICES Intel Corporation GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE 2478 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue AI Ready Dec 22, 2022
17923175 SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK COORDINATION AND ENERGY SAVING ASSISTED BY MANAGEMENT DATA ANALYTICS Intel Corporation VU, HOANG-CHUONG Q 2476 §102 Non-Final OA 30d AI Ready Nov 03, 2022
17972488 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING ROBOTICS TO ASSEMBLE/DE-ASSEMBLE COMPONENTS AND PERFORM SOCKET INSPECTION IN SERVER BOARD MANUFACTURING Intel Corporation TUGBANG, ANTHONY D 2896 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Oct 24, 2022
17898448 COORDINATED CHANNEL SWITCH TIMING AND TRANSMISSIONS IN NEIGHBORHOOD AWARENESS NETWORKS Intel Corporation FAN, GUOXING 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready Aug 29, 2022
17476618 SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PACKET-BASED NETWORK TRANSPORT INCLUDING A UNIFIED ADAPTER LAYER Intel Corporation NAJI, YOUNES 2445 §103 Final Rejection 142d overdue AI Ready Sep 16, 2021

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