Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sonoda & Kobayashi Ip Services Inc.

29 pending office actions • 1 client • 29 examiners • 24 art units • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
0
Due this week
12
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due later (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
26
Medium (90%)
3
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (69%)
§102 only6 (21%)
§112 only3 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
19
Information Tech
66% of docket
8
Communications
28% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

290 h
Manual time on pending OAs
58 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
102 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WAESCO, JOSEPH M 1 47.1% +42.3%
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.4% +14.0%
VORCE, AMELIA J.I. 1 72.7% +21.6%
REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A 1 89.3% +8.6%
HOANG, HIEU T 1 80.6% +16.6%
AHMED, ABDULLAHI 1 85.6% +1.9%
CHEN, PETER 1 87.3% +23.0%
ELNOUBI, SAID M 1 73.6% +21.8%
NGUYEN, ANH NGOC M 1 89.9% +8.0%
ASRES, HERMON 1 80.1% +19.2%

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
18291033 DETERMINATION OF COMPATIBLE RESOURCE CONFIGURATIONS IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL MIGRATION AND TOPOLOGICAL REDUNDANCY ASRES, HERMON 43d overdue
18711609 DATA INPUT PROCESSING HOANG, HIEU T 3d overdue
18691714 USER PLANE REDUNDANCY BETWEEN USER EQUIPMENT AND USER PLANE FUNCTION AHMED, ABDULLAHI 3d overdue
18861210 ENHANCED REPORTING OF QUALITY-OF-EXPERIENCE (QOE) MEASUREMENTS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1d overdue
18689705 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITERATIVE DOWNLINK PASSIVE INTERMODULATION SPATIAL AVOIDANCE CHEN, PETER 13d
18671545 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) ACCESS TO RESOURCE BASED ON RESOURCE OWNER IDENTIFIER REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A 14d
18685258 CONFIGURING CSI-RS FOR CSI FEEDBACK ASSOCIATED WITH DL TRANSMISSION FROM MULTIPLE TRPs NGUYEN, ANH NGOC M 27d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18721888 Method and Apparatus for Vehicle Application VORCE, AMELIA J.I. 52d overdue
18291033 DETERMINATION OF COMPATIBLE RESOURCE CONFIGURATIONS IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL MIGRATION AND TOPOLOGICAL REDUNDANCY ASRES, HERMON 43d overdue
18711609 DATA INPUT PROCESSING HOANG, HIEU T 3d overdue
18871805 PROJECTION BASED TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT ORDERING SYSTEM WAESCO, JOSEPH M 2d overdue
18861210 ENHANCED REPORTING OF QUALITY-OF-EXPERIENCE (QOE) MEASUREMENTS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1d overdue
18689705 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITERATIVE DOWNLINK PASSIVE INTERMODULATION SPATIAL AVOIDANCE CHEN, PETER 13d
18689197 NETWORK SLICING BASED VPLMN PRIORITIZATION ELNOUBI, SAID M 26d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Ericsson 29

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26434
24492
24762
36251
24411
36661
24071
24751
24621
26441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18871805 PROJECTION BASED TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT ORDERING SYSTEM Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2024
18861210 ENHANCED REPORTING OF QUALITY-OF-EXPERIENCE (QOE) MEASUREMENTS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 2441 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2024
18721888 Method and Apparatus for Vehicle Application Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) VORCE, AMELIA J.I. 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18671545 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) ACCESS TO RESOURCE BASED ON RESOURCE OWNER IDENTIFIER Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A 2407 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 22, 2024
18711609 DATA INPUT PROCESSING Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) HOANG, HIEU T 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 19, 2024
18691714 USER PLANE REDUNDANCY BETWEEN USER EQUIPMENT AND USER PLANE FUNCTION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) AHMED, ABDULLAHI 2475 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18689705 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITERATIVE DOWNLINK PASSIVE INTERMODULATION SPATIAL AVOIDANCE Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) CHEN, PETER 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18689197 NETWORK SLICING BASED VPLMN PRIORITIZATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) ELNOUBI, SAID M 2644 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18685258 CONFIGURING CSI-RS FOR CSI FEEDBACK ASSOCIATED WITH DL TRANSMISSION FROM MULTIPLE TRPs Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) NGUYEN, ANH NGOC M 2473 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18291033 DETERMINATION OF COMPATIBLE RESOURCE CONFIGURATIONS IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL MIGRATION AND TOPOLOGICAL REDUNDANCY Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) ASRES, HERMON 2449 §102 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18580443 Methods, UE, Network Node, Media for SL Transmission with Dedicated Resource Pool Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Pub) PANNELL, MARK G 2642 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2024
18570174 TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN A RELAYED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) CHERY, DADY 2418 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18565307 ELECTROMAGNETIC-FIELD-EMISSION-LIMITING RESOURCE ALLOCATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM 2469 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18562909 DYNAMIC STARTING OF THE DRX RETRANSMISSION TIMER FOR BOUNDED LATENCY APPLICATIONS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) WEIDNER, TIMOTHY J 2476 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18553811 CONTROL OF START AND STOP OF PAUSE OF CHARGING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) FANG, PAKEE 2409 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Oct 03, 2023
18285127 COMMUNICATION DEVICE POWER SAVING WHEN COMMUNICATION DEVICE MONITORS MULTICAST CONTROL CHANNEL NOTIFICATION CHANNEL Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) NOWLIN, ERIC 2474 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18285098 SELECTIVE REPORTING OF TRACKING AREA IDENTITY TO CORE NETWORK IN NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) IQBAL, KHAWAR 2643 §102 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18551922 FIRST NETWORK NODE, WIRELESS DEVICE, AND METHODS PERFORMED THEREBY FOR CONFIGURING CONFIGURED GRANTS FOR THE WIRELESS DEVICE Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18277252 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INHOMOGENEOUS SLICE SUPPORT Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) YI, ALEXANDER J. 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18272817 RVAS NETWORK FUNCTION FOR HPLMN Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) MURILLO GARCIA, FABRICIO R 2633 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18272342 HIERARCHICAL ONLINE CONVEX OPTIMIZATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) LEMMA, SAMSON B 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18271568 SIMULTANEOUS CALLING IN 5G Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI 2466 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18032318 CODEBOOK AND PMI OVERRIDE IN DOWNLINK MU-MIMO TRANSMISSION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) IM, THEODORE 2413 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Apr 17, 2023
18032144 HARQ TIMING FOR DCI SCHEDULING MULTIPLE CELLS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) VU, HOANG-CHUONG Q 2476 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 14, 2023
18247143 MANAGEMENT OF MASTER AND SECONDARY CELL GROUP CONFIGURATIONS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) HUA, QUAN M 2645 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18026234 Technique for Radio Resource Allocation in a Relayed Radio Communication Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) ASHLEY, HUGH MARK 2463 §103 Non-Final OA 133d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18007334 RESOURCE ISOLATION VIA ASSOCIATED IDENTIFIERS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) BARRY, JUSTIN ARTHUR 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 30, 2023
18004488 USER EQUIPMENT TETHERING POLICY Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) FIGUEROA, MARISOL 2643 §103 Final Rejection 69d Pending Jan 06, 2023
17778049 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PIM DETECTION USING RAN MEASUREMENTS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) MAK, RODRICK 2416 §103 Final Rejection 96d overdue Pending May 19, 2022

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