Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mbm Intellectual Property Agency

18 pending office actions • 2 clients • 18 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (6)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.

1
Hard (6%)
17
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only15 (83%)
§102 only2 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
12
Information Tech
67% of docket
4
Communications
22% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RUIZ, ANGELICA 1 83.0% +14.7%
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.4% +14.0%
BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 1 84.4% +5.1%
HUISMAN, DAVID J 1 58.0% +33.6%
KRETZER, CASEY L 1 87.0% +12.2%
BERHAN, AHMED A 1 87.5% +11.4%
PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER 1 85.7% +20.0%
TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH 1 60.3% +11.9%
KAMARA, MOHAMED A 1 89.1% +8.9%
HUANG, CHENG-FENG 1 87.4% +17.4%

Quick Wins (7)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18417701 GEODESIC COORDINATES FOR ROUTING IN A SATELLITE CONSTELLATION KAMARA, MOHAMED A 51d overdue
18799196 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING TRAFFIC STEERING THROUGH A SERVICE FUNCTION CHAIN MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 24d overdue
18638263 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINK DISCOVERY IN OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECTIONS BERHAN, AHMED A 9d overdue
19190053 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY OF DATA TYPES IN GEO-DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE-ACTIVE DATABASE SYSTEMS RUIZ, ANGELICA 5d overdue
18414952 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MULTI-USER QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT HUANG, CHENG-FENG 9d
18642286 CODED MODULATION WITH TWO-STAGE DECODING FOR IMPROVED FOUR-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC SHAPING KRETZER, CASEY L 84d
18606923 LIGHT TRANSPORT OFFLOADED PIPELINE PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER 86d

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
18748647 TRIGGERED BASESTATION-ASSISTED EVENT DETECTION AND RECORD KEEPING BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 43d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18665725 DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INDIRECT BRANCHES IN INDIRECT TARGET PREDICTORS HUISMAN, DAVID J 42d overdue
18430147 IN-BAND OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT FOR OPTICAL SWITCH TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH 37d overdue
18799196 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING TRAFFIC STEERING THROUGH A SERVICE FUNCTION CHAIN MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 24d overdue
18638263 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINK DISCOVERY IN OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECTIONS BERHAN, AHMED A 9d overdue
19190053 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY OF DATA TYPES IN GEO-DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE-ACTIVE DATABASE SYSTEMS RUIZ, ANGELICA 5d overdue
18414952 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MULTI-USER QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT HUANG, CHENG-FENG 9d
18642286 CODED MODULATION WITH TWO-STAGE DECODING FOR IMPROVED FOUR-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC SHAPING KRETZER, CASEY L 84d
18606923 LIGHT TRANSPORT OFFLOADED PIPELINE PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER 86d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Huawei 17
Francis Patrick Kelly 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21832
21541
24411
24571
26351
26391
26171
28961
24121
24971

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19190053 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY OF DATA TYPES IN GEO-DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE-ACTIVE DATABASE SYSTEMS Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. RUIZ, ANGELICA 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2025
18799196 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING TRAFFIC STEERING THROUGH A SERVICE FUNCTION CHAIN Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 2441 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2024
18748647 TRIGGERED BASESTATION-ASSISTED EVENT DETECTION AND RECORD KEEPING Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §101 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18665725 DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INDIRECT BRANCHES IN INDIRECT TARGET PREDICTORS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HUISMAN, DAVID J 2183 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending May 16, 2024
18642286 CODED MODULATION WITH TWO-STAGE DECODING FOR IMPROVED FOUR-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC SHAPING Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KRETZER, CASEY L 2635 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Apr 22, 2024
18638263 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINK DISCOVERY IN OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECTIONS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. BERHAN, AHMED A 2639 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18606923 LIGHT TRANSPORT OFFLOADED PIPELINE Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. PROVIDENCE, VINCENT ALEXANDER 2617 §103 Final Rejection 86d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18430147 IN-BAND OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT FOR OPTICAL SWITCH Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18417701 GEODESIC COORDINATES FOR ROUTING IN A SATELLITE CONSTELLATION Francis Patrick Kelly KAMARA, MOHAMED A 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18414952 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MULTI-USER QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. HUANG, CHENG-FENG 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 17, 2024
18394224 BRANCH PREDICTION FOR ERROR CHECKING BRANCHES IN A FUNCTION Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. COYER, RYAN D 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18540410 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANGUAGE AGNOSTIC FULL LINK GRAY DEPLOYMENT OF MICROSERVICES AND MIDDLEWARE Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. DOAN, TAN 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18382299 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING SIDELOBE CANCELLATION IN CODED OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18234969 METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF CHARGING MANAGEMENT Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KHAN, MEHMOOD B 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18222205 MULTICOLOR TUNABLE RESERVOIR COMPUTING METHOD AND SYSTEM Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jul 14, 2023
17858175 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PREFETCHING ARRAY SEGMENTS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ALLI, KASIM A 2183 §103 Final Rejection 254d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2022
17468224 SELF-SUPERVISED VIDEO REPRESENTATION LEARNING BY EXPLORING SPATIOTEMPORAL CONTINUITY Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 07, 2021
17089112 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK FOR JOINT TRANSMISSION Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 2633 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 04, 2020

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