Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. & Maier & Maier, Pllc

65 pending office actions • 1 client • 63 examiners • 37 art units • 0 of 65 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 196 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=15192 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.5%
Allowance Rate
n=15192
+0.47σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=15192
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=8686
-0.37σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=8686
891 days
Time to Allowance
n=8686
+7.1pp
Interview Lift
n=15192
24.0%
RCE Rate
n=15192
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=15192

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

68.7%
§101 Overcome
n=316
80.9%
§102 Overcome
n=1443
71.5%
§103 Overcome
n=6032
84.2%
§112 Overcome
n=1553

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H01M, Y02E
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=15192
5
Practitioners
n=15192
3038.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=15192

Portfolio Summary

65
Total Pending OAs
30
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
19
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.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
5
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 (12)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (5)

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 (2%)
51
Medium (78%)
5
Easy (8%)
8
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only45 (69%)
§102 only5 (8%)
§112 only5 (8%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record8 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
2% of docket
28
Information Tech
43% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
17
Semiconductors
26% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
13
Business / Other
20% 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.

650 h
Manual time on pending OAs
130 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
227 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHIAO, DAVID A 2 75.6% +30.5%
TRAN, NGUYEN 2 83.5% +7.6%
FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE 1 32.5% +25.0%
HOLDER, ANNER N 1 78.7% +13.5%
RICHARDSON, JANY 1 90.8% +6.0%
RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J 1 79.4% +10.0%
TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 1 71.5% +34.9%
CODUROGLU, JALAL C 1 85.7% +7.5%
MCMAHON, DANIEL F 1 89.6% +2.3%
HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L 1 87.9% +4.2%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18466077 POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM TRAN, NGUYEN 44d overdue
18617721 INVERTER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF TRAN, NGUYEN 8d
19024094 MOTOR CONTROL UNIT AND POWERTRAIN FOR PARKING CONTROL, AND PARKING CONTROL METHOD CODUROGLU, JALAL C
19024061 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MCMAHON, DANIEL F
19016265 SOFT-SWITCH RESONANT CONVERTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18356406 DETECTION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E

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
19026849 PICTURE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J 65d
18945940 POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND POWER UPDATE CONTROL METHOD SHIAO, DAVID A 70d
19077083 VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT, MOTOR CONTROL UNIT, AND RELATED DEVICE FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE
19063666 VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, ENCODER, DECODER, MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM HOLDER, ANNER N
19028279 DEVICE CONFIGURATION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, CHIP, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS
18945929 POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND POWER UPDATE CONTROL METHOD SHIAO, DAVID A

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Huawei 65

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28389
28593
36652
24572
24122
24542
24762
24831
28441
24871

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19077083 VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT, MOTOR CONTROL UNIT, AND RELATED DEVICE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE 3665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 12, 2025
19063666 VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, ENCODER, DECODER, MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HOLDER, ANNER N 2483 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2025
19028315 MONITORING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. RICHARDSON, JANY 2844 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19026849 PICTURE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Jan 17, 2025
19028279 DEVICE CONFIGURATION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, CHIP, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 2457 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19024094 MOTOR CONTROL UNIT AND POWERTRAIN FOR PARKING CONTROL, AND PARKING CONTROL METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. CODUROGLU, JALAL C 3665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
19024061 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MCMAHON, DANIEL F §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
19016265 SOFT-SWITCH RESONANT CONVERTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2025
18977528 DATA BACKUP METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ZHU, ZHIMEI 2495 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2024
18960061 TWO-WAY OIL-COLLECTING REDUCER AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. TRUONG, MINH D 3654 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 26, 2024
18945929 POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND POWER UPDATE CONTROL METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. SHIAO, DAVID A Non-Final OA Pending Nov 13, 2024
18945940 POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND POWER UPDATE CONTROL METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. SHIAO, DAVID A 2836 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Nov 13, 2024
18928864 COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PEREZ, ANGELICA §112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 28, 2024
18924785 POWERTRAIN AND VEHICLE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. MEYER, JACOB B Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2024
18899098 SENSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18893048 POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, THREE-PHASE INVERTER, CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THREE-PHASE INVERTER Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. SOILEAU, JONATHAN WALTER 2838 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2024
18817617 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. SHAH, TANMAY K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18814649 PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTER AND TEMPERATURE DETECTION APPARATUS Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. QUDDUS, NUSRAT 2838 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18797720 INVERTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. FINCH III, FRED E 2838 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18763465 COMMUNICATION METHOD INTEGRATED WITH TRUSTWORTHINESS MEASUREMENT Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. POWERS, WILLIAM S 2496 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18671243 CHIP PACKAGE MODULE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, POWER MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. SABUR, ALIA §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18650388 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. WIDHALM DE RODRIG, ANGELA MARIE 2443 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18644387 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND RELATED APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. LIN, KENNY S 2416 §112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 24, 2024
18621465 POWER CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DRIVE RESISTANCE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. CHAPA MILLS, NICOLAS ALDEN 2838 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18617721 INVERTER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. TRAN, NGUYEN 2838 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18592592 MOTOR AND VEHICLE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. SECK, AHMED F 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18436403 INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. LEE, SANG CHEON 2467 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Feb 08, 2024
18425146 NETWORK ANALYTICS TRACING, AND ROLLBACK FOR STABLE CONSUMPTION OF ANALYTICS OUTPUT Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. LEE, GIL H 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18394609 POWERTRAIN SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL 3613 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 22, 2023
18517121 COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, THERESA 2418 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2023
18503255 POWER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BATTERY MANAGEMENT METHOD, POWER SYSTEM, AND POWER DEVICE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. MCDANIEL, TYNESE V §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2023
18496045 POWER SYSTEM AND POWER SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 27, 2023
18492022 CHARGING APPARATUS, CHARGING PILE, AND CHARGING SYSTEM Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. DJANAL-MANN, DOMINIQUE JOHANN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2023
18492063 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. SOE, KYAW Z 2412 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 23, 2023
18474457 MODULATION AND CODING DETERMINING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. BAIG, ADNAN 2461 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2023
18474460 COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND BASE STATION Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. TACDIRAN, ANDRE GEE 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18474468 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. DECKER, CASSANDRA L 2466 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 26, 2023
18473346 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18473350 TRAFFIC FORWARDING METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CHRISS, ANDREW W 2472 §112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18469804 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. LEE, PHILIP C 2454 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2023
18467801 CHARGER, SOFT-START METHOD, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND CHARGING SYSTEM Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. DIAO, M BAYE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 15, 2023
18466077 POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. TRAN, NGUYEN 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2023
18462524 DISTRIBUTED POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. HESS, DANIEL A Non-Final OA Pending Sep 07, 2023
18451176 MOTOR, CHARGING APPARATUS, POWERTRAIN, AND VEHICLE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. GUDORF, LAURA A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 17, 2023
18450537 CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. WU, JAMES 2841 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 16, 2023
18366107 METHOD FOR SENDING MEASUREMENT PACKET AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KHAWAR, SAAD 2412 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2023
18356406 DETECTION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E 2852 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 21, 2023
18329902 CONVERSION CIRCUIT, CONVERSION CIRCUIT PRECHARGE CONTROL METHOD, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
18321825 PACKET TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PARK, JEONG S 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending May 23, 2023
18321089 TERMINAL SCANNING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2642 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2023
18313546 METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING INTENT KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN INTENT SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KASSA, ELIZABETH 2457 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2023
18304468 COMMUNICATION METHOD APPLIED TO INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL IAB SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICE Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CHAU, PETER P 2476 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18303886 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CARDONE, JASON D 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 134d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18191221 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KO, SITHU 2414 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18184742 COLLABORATIVE INFERENCE METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. STANLEY, JEREMY L 2127 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
18181765 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MULTI-USER TRANSMISSIONS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MILLER, GARY ADDISON ELDO 2417 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 10, 2023
18172548 BATTERY ELECTRICAL ENERGY BALANCING CIRCUIT AND METHOD AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. TRISCHLER, JOHN T 2859 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2023
18170603 CHARGING CIRCUIT, TERMINAL DEVICE, ADAPTER, AND CHARGING SYSTEM AND METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER 2859 §102 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18064440 INVERTER, INVERTER SYSTEM, AND METHOD Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. AHMAD, SHAHZEB K 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 141d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2022
18071847 FAULT PROTECTION APPARATUS Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. THOMAS, LUCY M 2838 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2022
17990952 CHARGING CONTROL METHOD, ENERGY STORAGE MODULE, AND POWERED DEVICE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17975854 NETWORK SLICE LOAD CONTROL METHOD AND RELATED PRODUCT Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER 2477 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 28, 2022
17959511 SECOND SERVING CELL DRX CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS USING INFORMATION IN FIRST SERVING CELL Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 2476 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2022
17696013 HEAT EXCHANGE PLATE AND HEAT EXCHANGER INCLUDING HEAT EXCHANGE PLATE Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. ALVARE, PAUL 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2022
17325302 SILICON-OXYGEN COMPOSITE ANODE MATERIAL AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 1751 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 20, 2021

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