Technology area: Networking & Security
323 pending office actions • 62 clients • 284 examiners • 172 art units • 64 of 323 (20%) have an AI response strategy ready
PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, L.L.P. reports 317 pending office actions in Networking & Security and 12399 career applications. The active docket is substantial, and the large application base provides extensive context for interpreting the reported prosecution measures.
The resolved allowance rate is 90.65%, with an average of 3.65 office actions per allowance. The allowance rate indicates frequent successful resolution, while the action average shows that allowed matters commonly involved several examination exchanges. For practitioners, the profile combines significant current docket management needs with a broad prosecution record and a favorable reported resolution measure.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 88 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 88 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 5 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 36 (11%) |
| §103 only | 125 (39%) |
| §102 only | 16 (5%) |
| §112 only | 9 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 121 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, NGUYEN THANH | 4 | 85.1% | +6.5% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 3 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
| COSME, NATASHA W | 3 | 80.4% | +13.8% |
| CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 3 | 56.2% | +27.3% |
| GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO | 3 | 59.7% | +46.3% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 2 | 69.4% | +14.6% |
| MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 2 | 77.8% | +17.4% |
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 2 | 65.1% | +43.4% |
| KANG, ANNABELLE | 2 | 90.6% | -6.3% |
| VO, DON NGUYEN | 2 | 90.5% | +0.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18188891 | LOW QUIESCENT CURRENT AND FAST TRANSIENT VOLTAGE REGULATOR WITH TRANSCONDUCTANCE BOOSTER | TRAN, NGUYEN | 14d |
| 18999000 | POWER RESETTING FOR UNIFIED TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR | VO, NGUYEN THANH | — |
| 19005813 | BATTERY HOT SWAPPING | TRAN, NGUYEN | — |
| 18986451 | MICRO-ACOUSTIC MULTIBAND FILTENNA | VO, NGUYEN THANH | — |
| 18864453 | NETWORK-ASSISTED MOBILITY FOR NETWORK-BASED AVIATION SERVICES | VO, DON NGUYEN | — |
| 18849969 | EXPEDITED MOBILITY BASED ON DEDICATED FREQUENCY PRIORITY LIST | VO, DON NGUYEN | — |
| 18812582 | RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL PROCEDURES IN SUBBAND FULL DUPLEX NETWORKS | COSME, NATASHA W | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17964639 | NON-NUMERIC FEEDBACK TIMING INDICATORS FOR HARQ-ACK | POKRZYWA, JOSEPH R | 261d overdue |
| 18159614 | COATING REMOVAL SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME | COLEMAN, RYAN L | 190d overdue |
| 17917218 | POSITIONING A FIRST AND SECOND METAL PLATE IN A LASER BEAM WELDING POSITION | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 183d overdue |
| 18252741 | IMPROVED USE OF CANNABINOIDS IN THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY | BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | 89d overdue |
| 17233022 | BULLFROG SKIN-DERIVED COLLAGEN, MATERIALS COMPRISING THEREOF, AND APPLICATIONS IN WOUND HEALING | LEE, JIA-HAI | 80d overdue |
| 18285933 | COMPRESSION APPARATUS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 77d overdue |
| 18506831 | NETWORK RECOMMENDED SEAMLESS ROAMING | GAO, JING | 71d overdue |
| 17648415 | CROSS-DOMAIN ADAPTIVE LEARNING | GIROUX, GEORGE | 46d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252688 | RAPIDLY DISINTERGRATING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS (Nicotine) | GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO | 60d overdue |
| 18751090 | CHECK VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | 5d |
| 17709155 | GUIDEWIRE CONTROLLER CASSETTE AND USING METHOD THEREOF | HENSON, DEVIN B | 29d |
| 18487851 | PARTIALLY NETWORK-CONTROLLED REPEATER | COSME, NATASHA W | 50d |
| 19296598 | CRANE SYSTEMS AND PUMP MANIFOLD SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS, FOR PUMPING OPERATIONS | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| 18975919 | CORE NETWORK VISIBLE QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE) MEASUREMENTS | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | — |
| 18972487 | INTRODUCTION DEVICE INCLUDING AN ELECTROACTIVE TIP ON A GUIDEWIRE | HENSON, DEVIN B | — |
| 18852154 | RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE REFERENCE SIGNALS | COSME, NATASHA W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 8 |
| 2461 | 8 |
| 2646 | 7 |
| 2471 | 7 |
| 2645 | 7 |
| 2478 | 7 |
| 2466 | 5 |
| 2465 | 5 |
| 2477 | 5 |
| 2463 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19370582 | IMPROVED SEALING ON SERVICE PACKERS | Expro North Sea Limited | STEPHENSON, DANIEL P | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19474059 | PONDLESS HYDROMECHANICAL STORAGE SYSTEM | Sage Geosystems Inc. | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19162462 | GEOTHERMAL POWER SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES | Sage Geosystems Inc. | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19296598 | CRANE SYSTEMS AND PUMP MANIFOLD SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS, FOR PUMPING OPERATIONS | Forum US, Inc. | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19291197 | RESERVING A SECURE ADDRESS RANGE | Qualcomm Incorporated | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 2138 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19272094 | PACKAGING FOR RAPIDLY INFUSING COMPOSITION | Orcosa Inc. | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19232644 | MULTI-VECTOR RENAMING TO AVOID BANK WRITE CONFLICTS | Qualcomm Incorporated | HUISMAN, DAVID J | 2183 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19225992 | LIMITED OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION FOR MATRIX INSTRUCTIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | ALROBAYE, IDRISS N | 2181 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19217327 | CENTRALIZED BEAM DETERMINATION FOR FULL DUPLEX COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 2635 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19208390 | FOLDING RIFLE STOCK | Gunwerks LLC | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 3641 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19185776 | HYBRID PREDICTIVE AND GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DECISION LOGIC FOR ORCHESTRATING AN AUTONOMOUS WORKFLOW | Westlake Corporation | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 2658 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19184665 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING POLAR CODES | Qualcomm Incorporated | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 2112 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19118498 | VORTEX-INDUCED VIBRATION (VIV) SUPPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION | J. Ray Mcdermott, S.A. | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19093654 | DETECTION OF VIOLATIONS AND POTENTIAL ACTIONS FOR AERIAL DEVICES | Qualcomm Incorporated | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19085654 | CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF ITS MANUFACTURING BASED ON OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION DISPERSION | Kemet Electronics Corporation | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19067670 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTRA-SIMD DATA MOVEMENT FOR LANE-WISE OPERATED SINGLE INSTRUCTION, MULTIPLE DATA (SIMD) COPROCESSORS | Qualcomm Incorporated | SNYDER, STEVEN G | 2184 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107791 | MULTIPHASE FREQUENCY MODULATION FOR REDUCED PEAK DEVIATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | JOHNSON, RYAN | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19065649 | ENHANCED REGION TAGGING | Qualcomm Incorporated | KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 2139 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18999000 | POWER RESETTING FOR UNIFIED TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR | Qualcomm Incorporated | VO, NGUYEN THANH | 2646 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19019882 | SPATIOTEMPORAL ATTENTION IN GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | Qualcomm Incorporated | BROWN, SHEREE N | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18994127 | A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DETERMINING IF A MEDICAL DATA SAMPLE REQUIRES REFERRAL FOR INVESTIGATION FOR A DISEASE | University Of Liverpool | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 3682 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18992542 | REPORTING DESIGN FOR DOPPLER DOMAIN CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 2463 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19009559 | SOUNDING AND CSI FEEDBACK FOR COORDINATED BEAMFORMING | Qualcomm Incorporated | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 2633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19005813 | BATTERY HOT SWAPPING | Qualcomm Incorporated | TRAN, NGUYEN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 | |
| 18989461 | PARTIAL SUM MANAGEMENT AND RECONFIGURABLE SYSTOLIC FLOW ARCHITECTURES FOR IN-MEMORY COMPUTATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | KIM, SEOKJIN | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18989816 | EFFICIENT SEARCHING OF STRUCTURED DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | Qualcomm Incorporated | ALMANI, MOHSEN | 2159 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18986451 | MICRO-ACOUSTIC MULTIBAND FILTENNA | Qualcomm Incorporated | VO, NGUYEN THANH | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18976008 | SHARED VOLTAGE RAIL FRAMEWORK FOR HETEROGENEOUS CPU CLUSTER | Qualcomm Incorporated | REHMAN, MOHAMMED H | 2176 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18975422 | SIDELINK POSITIONING VIA MESSAGING BETWEEN WIRELESS NODES | Qualcomm Incorporated | LEE, SIU M | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 | |
| 18975919 | CORE NETWORK VISIBLE QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE) MEASUREMENTS | Qualcomm Incorporated | MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 2474 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18972487 | INTRODUCTION DEVICE INCLUDING AN ELECTROACTIVE TIP ON A GUIDEWIRE | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | HENSON, DEVIN B | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18968863 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPACTLY DESCRIBING LIFTED LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK (LDPC) CODES | Qualcomm Incorporated | TORRES, JOSEPH D | 2112 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18966260 | ABSORBENT PAD FOR A GARMENT AND A GARMENT COMPRISING THE ABSORBENT PAD | Mas Innovation (Private) Limited | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18871421 | POLAR CODE CONSTRUCTION AND CONFIGURATION FOR BLOCK-CODE-BASED SHAPING | Qualcomm Incorporated | PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS | 2111 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | AI Ready | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18967151 | PRIORITIZING COMMANDS IN A COMMAND QUEUE FOR A SYSTEM MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT | Qualcomm Incorporated | BLUST, JASON W | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18957340 | MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEM ADAPTED TO FORM CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE POLAR PATTERNS | Logitech Europe S.A. | KANG, ANNABELLE | 2695 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18868656 | SPLIT MAIN AND PREDISTORTION SIGNAL PATHS WITH SEPARATE DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTERS FOR SUPPORTING DIGITAL PREDISTORTION IN TRANSMITTERS | Qualcomm Incorporated | DEPPE, BETSY LEE | 2633 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | AI Ready | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18867777 | SECURE WIRELESS TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS | Qualcomm Incorporated | AVERY, JEREMIAH L | 2431 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18952502 | OPERATING FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT FOR MISMATCHED POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS | Qualcomm Incorporated | TIKU, SISAY G | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18864453 | NETWORK-ASSISTED MOBILITY FOR NETWORK-BASED AVIATION SERVICES | Qualcomm Incorporated | VO, DON NGUYEN | 2634 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18864424 | PAYLOAD AND TRANSMISSION OF LOW POWER WAKE-UP SIGNAL FOR PAGING INDICATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | CHOI, HAESHIL JESSICA | 2469 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18864461 | MEASUREMENT ALIGNMENT IN IDLE AND INACTIVE STATES | Qualcomm Incorporated | TILAHUN, ALAZAR | 2424 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18939177 | AVOIDING PING-PONG BETWEEN DIFFERENT ANTENNA TUNING CONFIGURATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | VO, NGUYEN THANH | 2646 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18932345 | MOBILITY DURING SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION (SDT) PROCEDURE | Qualcomm Incorporated | GELIN, JEAN ALLAND | 2643 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18930633 | IDLE/INACTIVE MODE PROCEDURES FOR REDUCED CAPABILITY USER EQUIPMENT | Qualcomm Incorporated | GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR | 2466 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18930962 | MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY ADAPTED TO FORM CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE POLAR PATTERNS | Logitech Europe S.A. | KANG, ANNABELLE | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18860512 | TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (TDMA) MULTI-RADAR CO-EXISTENCE WITH GROUP-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3646 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18920752 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR A CONFIGURABLE MEDICAL INFORMATION PLATFORM | The Regents of the University of Colorado | YEN, SYLING | 3687 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18856906 | SIDELINK KIND PASSIVE COMMUNICATIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | LOPATA, ROBERT J | 2471 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18857175 | PERIODIC POWER HEADROOM REPORT FOR UPLINK CARRIER AGGREGATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | BILODEAU, DAVID | 2648 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial84.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Patterson + Sheridan, L.L.P. were allowed, across 264 applications in USPTO records.
2.85 office actions per allowed application on average.
323 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 62 clients, before 284 examiners in 172 art units.
