Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Smart & Biggar LP (Huawei)

16 pending office actions • 1 client • 16 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

2
Hard (12%)
14
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (12%)
§103 only14 (88%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
62% of docket
4
Communications
25% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YODICHKAS, ANEETA 1 71.5% +25.0%
SCHNIREL, ANDREW B 1 50.4% -6.1%
NGUYEN, CHAU T 1 67.6% +31.5%
RAHMAN, SHAH M 1 80.9% +25.9%
SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 1 89.8% +8.2%
PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH 1 50.0% +100.0%
KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER 1 27.3% +88.9%
HAN, KYU HYUNG 1 45.5% +7.1%
FIGUEROA, KEVIN W 1 69.6% +22.1%
PARIHAR, SUCHIN 1 87.7% +8.8%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18235499 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OUTPUT DEVICES IN A VEHICLE BASED ON PROXEMIC RISK SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 7d
18616490 METHODS AND APPRATUSES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RETRANSMISSION USING CHECK BLOCKS GENERATED ACCORDING TO SUBBLOCK INTERLEAVERS RAHMAN, SHAH M 35d
17991806 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING ONE OR MORE CHARACTERISTICS FOR A NETLIST PARIHAR, SUCHIN 56d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18119221 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL USING GRADUAL KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH 66d overdue
17968913 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO LEARN CONSTRAINTS FROM EXPERT DEMONSTRATIONS DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 30d overdue
18154523 MULTI-GRAPH CONVOLUTION COLLABORATIVE FILTERING KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER 34d

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
18119221 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL USING GRADUAL KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH 66d overdue
19196851 METHODS AND SYSTEMS SUPPORTING MULTI-DISPLAY INTERACTION USING WEARABLE DEVICE YODICHKAS, ANEETA 46d overdue
18074915 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED MULTI-MODEL JOINT REASONING FIGUEROA, KEVIN W 3d overdue
18154523 MULTI-GRAPH CONVOLUTION COLLABORATIVE FILTERING KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER 34d
18616490 METHODS AND APPRATUSES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RETRANSMISSION USING CHECK BLOCKS GENERATED ACCORDING TO SUBBLOCK INTERLEAVERS RAHMAN, SHAH M 35d
18671160 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY FORMULATING AN OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM USING MACHINE LEARNING NGUYEN, CHAU T 71d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Huawei 16

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26271
26251
21451
24131
36611
21211
21421
21231
21241
28511

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19196851 METHODS AND SYSTEMS SUPPORTING MULTI-DISPLAY INTERACTION USING WEARABLE DEVICE Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. YODICHKAS, ANEETA 2627 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 02, 2025
19173265 METHODS, DEVICES, AND MEDIA FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL WORKSPACE Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. SCHNIREL, ANDREW B 2625 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Apr 08, 2025
18671160 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY FORMULATING AN OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM USING MACHINE LEARNING Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, CHAU T 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending May 22, 2024
18616490 METHODS AND APPRATUSES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RETRANSMISSION USING CHECK BLOCKS GENERATED ACCORDING TO SUBBLOCK INTERLEAVERS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. RAHMAN, SHAH M 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18235499 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OUTPUT DEVICES IN A VEHICLE BASED ON PROXEMIC RISK Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 3661 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18119221 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL USING GRADUAL KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH 2121 §101 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18154523 MULTI-GRAPH CONVOLUTION COLLABORATIVE FILTERING Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER 2142 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18062561 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TASK-RELEVANT STRUCTURAL EMBEDDINGS FROM MOLECULAR GRAPHS Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. HAN, KYU HYUNG 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 06, 2022
18074915 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED MULTI-MODEL JOINT REASONING Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. FIGUEROA, KEVIN W 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
17991806 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING ONE OR MORE CHARACTERISTICS FOR A NETLIST Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PARIHAR, SUCHIN 2851 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17968913 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO LEARN CONSTRAINTS FROM EXPERT DEMONSTRATIONS Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 2168 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17963496 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR ONE-ROUND FEDERATED LEARNING WITH PREDICTIVE SPACE BAYESIAN INFERENCE Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. JAYAKUMAR, CHAITANYA R 2128 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 11, 2022
17902632 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPLITTING AND BIT-WIDTH ASSIGNMENT OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS FOR INFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022
17899451 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION OF POINT CLOUDS Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ZHANG, FAN 2682 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 30, 2022
17701257 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SMOOTH TRAINING OF A QUANTIZED NEURAL NETWORK Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022
17571425 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STREAMABLE MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 07, 2022

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