Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Newport Ip, LLC

57 pending office actions • 2 clients • 57 examiners • 36 art units • 9 of 57 (16%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1461 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.4%
Allowance Rate
n=1461
+0.46σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1461
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=895
-0.27σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=895
1005 days
Time to Allowance
n=895
-5.3pp
Interview Lift
n=1461
38.6%
RCE Rate
n=1461
2.5%
Appeal Rate
n=1461

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

67.1%
§101 Overcome
n=289
74.3%
§102 Overcome
n=374
71.7%
§103 Overcome
n=775
68.6%
§112 Overcome
n=360

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06N
Top CPC Subclasses
55%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1461
5
Practitioners
n=1461
292.2
Apps / Practitioner
n=1461

Portfolio Summary

57
Total Pending OAs
36
Non-Final OAs
18
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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.

29
Hard (51%)
23
Medium (40%)
5
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (7%)
§101 + other14 (25%)
§103 only20 (35%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only4 (7%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
5% of docket
27
Information Tech
47% of docket
7
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
16
Business / Other
28% 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.

570 h
Manual time on pending OAs
114 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
200 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAJ SAID, FADI 1 79.4% +18.8%
TRAN, ALEX HOANG 1 62.8% +29.0%
JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 1 53.8% +21.6%
LE, HUNG D 1 90.1% +6.2%
LI, JAI WEI TOMMY 1
GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C 1 56.5% +40.4%
SHAH, VAISHALI 1 57.1% +54.6%
CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 1 76.3% +39.1%
HARRISON, CHANTE E 1 68.5% +29.2%
SULTANA, NADIRA 1 73.1% +33.7%

Hard Cases (29)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18110847 AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS CAMPOS, ALFREDO 71d overdue
18401324 NETWORK PROCESSOR PRIMITIVES FOR WORKLOADS IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK TRAN, JIMMY H 51d overdue
18673750 ENHANCED CONTROLS FOR CONFIGURATING CUSTOMIZED CALENDAR EVENTS WITH SHORTENED ATTENDANCE PERIODS LABOGIN, DORETHEA L 49d overdue
18409657 TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES BOLOURCHI, NADER 49d overdue
18660592 REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF ANOMALY DETECTION NOISE IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 38d overdue
17555278 LIGHTWEIGHT ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MONITORING DEVICE WITH SEMI-DRY ELECTRODES GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA 15d overdue
18812626 JOB LOADER ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA 9d
18669449 MECHANISM TO REDUCE QUERY REJECT RATE JAMI, HARES 19d

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
18986294 Untitled HAJ SAID, FADI
18986247 Untitled TRAN, ALEX HOANG
18963406 Untitled JOHNSON, AMY COHEN
18933983 Untitled GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C
18964166 Untitled SHAH, VAISHALI
18982904 VISUAL CONTENT REDACTION FOR CONTENT CAPTURES CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY
18976129 RE-CREATION OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH A VIDEO CALL HARRISON, CHANTE E
18964326 MESSAGE PROCESSING USING LANGUAGE MODELS SULTANA, NADIRA

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Microsoft 56
TOWER ROCK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36232
26912
21922
21972
21952
24351
26131
26531
17811
21381

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18986294 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC HAJ SAID, FADI §112 Non-Final OA Pending
18986247 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC TRAN, ALEX HOANG §103 Non-Final OA Pending
18963406 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 2435 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending
19267409 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LE, HUNG D §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending
18943518 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LI, JAI WEI TOMMY §103 Non-Final OA Pending
18933983 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C §103 Non-Final OA Pending
18964166 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SHAH, VAISHALI §103 Final Rejection Pending
18982904 VISUAL CONTENT REDACTION FOR CONTENT CAPTURES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 2613 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18976129 RE-CREATION OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH A VIDEO CALL Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC HARRISON, CHANTE E §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18964326 MESSAGE PROCESSING USING LANGUAGE MODELS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SULTANA, NADIRA 2653 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2024
18885600 OPTICAL OVER-THE-AIR PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATION FOR XR DEVICES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC PHAN, HANH DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 14, 2024
18885372 USER INTERFACE FOR VISUALIZING SEARCH DATA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY §101§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18884956 ACCESS CONTROL OF AUDIO AND VIDEO STREAMS AND CONTROL OF REPRESENTATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION SESSIONS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC PAN, YONGJIA §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18813890 HIGH SURFACE AREA COATINGS FOR SOLID-PHASE SYNTHESIS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC KHAN, TAHSEEN 1781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18812626 JOB LOADER Tower Rock Technologies, LLC ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA 3623 §101Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 22, 2024
18789107 CONJOINED MEMORY SYSTEMS SUPPORTING DATA STORAGE IN LARGER MEMORY SYSTEM WHEN SMALLER MEMORY SYSTEM IS UNAVAILABLE AND WITH SMALLER MEMORY SYSTEM READ LATENCY, AND RELATED PROCESSOR-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE 2138 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 30, 2024
18772056 NETWORK PACKET MIRRORING FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ANALYSIS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LEE, CHI HO A 2475 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18765196 ENHANCE CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION SESSIONS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC TRAN, TUYETLIEN T §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2024
18765192 AUTOMATED UI AND PERMISSION TRANSITIONS BETWEEN PRESENTERS OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2024
18755596 AUTOMATIC INCIDENT IDENTIFICATION, INVESTIGATION, AND NEXT-STEP PREDICTION Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §101§103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18677999 DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION TESTING PIPELINE Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC PAN, HANG 2193 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2024
18673750 ENHANCED CONTROLS FOR CONFIGURATING CUSTOMIZED CALENDAR EVENTS WITH SHORTENED ATTENDANCE PERIODS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LABOGIN, DORETHEA L 3624 §101 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18674557 DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING WITH IMPROVED RSS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC GEBRE, MESSERET F 2445 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 24, 2024
18670596 CONTENT DETECTION FOR VOICE CALLS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC JONES, CARISSA ANNE 2691 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2024
18669449 MECHANISM TO REDUCE QUERY REJECT RATE Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC JAMI, HARES 2164 §101 Final Rejection 19d Pending May 20, 2024
18665751 FLEXIBLE ANALYTICS ENGINE API USING NATURAL LANGUAGE Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC RASHID, WISSAM §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2024
18660592 REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF ANOMALY DETECTION NOISE IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 2113 §101 Final Rejection 38d overdue AI Ready May 10, 2024
18625428 FAST TEST DISABLEMENT FOR PULL REQUEST AND CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION WORKFLOWS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LEE, MARINA 2192 §112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18622926 DISAGGREGATION FROM NETWORK APPLIANCES TO HARDWARE-BASED NETWORK DEVICES IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 2447 §102 Final Rejection 5d overdue AI Ready Mar 30, 2024
18622736 MAPPING THREADS TO CORES FOR TELECOMS PERFORMANCE Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC HU, SELINA ELISA §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18440643 SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING SENSOR SETTINGS IN A MULTI-CAMERA ENVIRONMENT BASED ON FOUNDATION MODELS AND HISTORICAL DATA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LE, JOHNNY TRAN 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18430289 MACHINE LEARNING DEVELOPMENT USING LANGUAGE MODELS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SACKALOSKY, COREY MATTHEW §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 01, 2024
18424473 Battery Current Optimization Scheme for High Power Laser Applications Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2024
18409657 TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC BOLOURCHI, NADER 2631 §101§112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue AI Ready Jan 10, 2024
18401186 AI-GENERATED DATASETS FOR AI MODEL TRAINING AND VALIDATION Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18401324 NETWORK PROCESSOR PRIMITIVES FOR WORKLOADS IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC TRAN, JIMMY H 2451 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 51d overdue AI Ready Dec 29, 2023
18397996 MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS CODE DEBUGGING Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC UNG, LANNY N 2197 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18391362 ENDPOINT SECURITY GROUPS IN PRIVATE MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTE NETWORKS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LEE, GIL H 2446 §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2023
18504819 ADAPTABLE NOTIFICATIONS FOR INCOMING MESSAGES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC MENDAYE, KIDEST H 2457 §103 Final Rejection 34d AI Ready Nov 08, 2023
18482145 FILE ACCESS PERMISSION REVOCATION NOTIFICATION Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH 2166 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 06, 2023
18371158 RESOURCE ESTIMATION FOR MOBILE PACKET CORE CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 §103 Final Rejection 5d AI Ready Sep 21, 2023
18367392 NEURONAL CELL CULTURES AS COMPUTE SUBSTRATES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC GRABER, JAMES J 1631 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2023
18456838 COMPRESSION FOR QUANTIZING MODEL WEIGHTS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC KASSIM, HAFIZ A 3623 §101§112 Final Rejection AI Ready Aug 28, 2023
18217274 CONFIGURABLE MESH NETWORK NODE AGGREGATION FOR MITIGATING VOLTAGE DROOP IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) CHIP AND RELATED METHODS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 2175 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2023
18216255 DYNAMIC ALLOCATION TO DISAGGREGATED SDN APPLIANCES/SWITCHES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LIN, HSING CHUN 2195 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 29, 2023
18215801 ENSEMBLE MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE FOR VISUALIZING COMPLEX DATA RELATIONSHIPS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES 2142 §101§103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18214960 SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING HARDWARE MODELS TO DETECT SIDE-CHANNEL VULNERABILITIES IN PROCESSOR DESIGNS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC POPHAM, JEFFREY D 2432 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2023
18326391 INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ACTOR FRAMEWORKS AND ASYNCHRONOUS FRAMEWORKS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 31, 2023
18199889 EDGE COMPUTING Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC BUKHARI, SIBTE H 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 19, 2023
18199312 GENERATION OF TECHNICAL DATA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LUU, CUONG V 2192 §101§103 Final Rejection 63d Pending May 18, 2023
18110847 AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC CAMPOS, ALFREDO 2129 §101§103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18146123 MACHINE LEARNING SOLUTION TO PREDICT PROTEIN CHARACTERISTICS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2022
17950475 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENTLY GENERATING A TITLE FOR A GROUP OF DOCUMENTS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 22, 2022
17873093 Progress Monitoring Service Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC PATEL, HIREN P 2196 §103§112 Non-Final OA 22d AI Ready Jul 25, 2022
17852171 PROVIDING NAME RESOLUTION SERVICES TO COMPONENTS EXECUTING IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue AI Ready Jun 28, 2022
17670350 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ASSEMBLY USING HAIRPINS AND INVADING STRANDS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1684 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 11, 2022
17555278 LIGHTWEIGHT ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MONITORING DEVICE WITH SEMI-DRY ELECTRODES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA 3794 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021

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