Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Squire Pb (Nokia)

22 pending office actions • 1 client • 22 examiners • 19 art units • 15 of 22 (68%) have an AI response strategy ready • 126 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

1
Hard (5%)
21
Medium (95%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only19 (86%)
§102 only2 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
73% of docket
5
Communications
23% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA 1 77.2% +19.9%
DONABED, NINOS 1 75.2% +66.3%
HARPER, KEVIN C 1 87.9% +6.2%
BROWN, VERNAL U 1 69.6% +13.9%
WILLIAMS, ALESSANDRA ROSE GLYNN 1
O CONNOR, BRIAN T 1 85.1% +8.4%
SABOURI, MAZDA 1 77.2% +16.7%
TAHA, SHUKRI ABDALLAH 1 83.9% +18.3%
NGUYEN, CHUONG M 1 72.5% +19.8%
HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED 1

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
18294399 INDICATION FOR PREAMBLE TRANSMISSION AFTER BEAM SWITCH O CONNOR, BRIAN T 37d overdue
18609922 RECEPTION SCHEME HARPER, KEVIN C 17d overdue
18576279 UNCONFIGURED MEASUREMENT GAPS HANDLING FOR FRAME BASED EQUIPMENT (FBE) OPERATION TAHA, SHUKRI ABDALLAH 62d

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
18728655 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING DOWNLINK DATA IN A DUAL/MULTI CONNECTIVITY SYSTEM DONABED, NINOS 111d overdue

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
18728655 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING DOWNLINK DATA IN A DUAL/MULTI CONNECTIVITY SYSTEM DONABED, NINOS 111d overdue
18558005 TRANSMISSION FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION NGUYEN, CHUONG M 35d overdue
18804702 O-RAN OPEN FRONTHAUL SECTION ENHANCEMENT HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA 29d overdue
18416248 PAGING WITH CELL DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION SABOURI, MAZDA 6d
18594150 AMBIENT INTERNET OF THINGS TAG READER PROCEDURE FOR ESTIMATION OF TAG CHARGE TIME WITH PERIODIC POSITIONING ACTIVATION REFERENCE SIGNALS BROWN, VERNAL U 13d
18576279 UNCONFIGURED MEASUREMENT GAPS HANDLING FOR FRAME BASED EQUIPMENT (FBE) OPERATION TAHA, SHUKRI ABDALLAH 62d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Nokia 22

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24132
24782
24772
26451
24441
24621
26861
24651
26411
24111

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18804702 O-RAN OPEN FRONTHAUL SECTION ENHANCEMENT Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2024
18728655 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING DOWNLINK DATA IN A DUAL/MULTI CONNECTIVITY SYSTEM Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy DONABED, NINOS 2444 §101 Final Rejection 111d overdue AI Ready Jul 12, 2024
18609922 RECEPTION SCHEME Nokia Technologies Oy HARPER, KEVIN C 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue AI Ready Mar 19, 2024
18594150 AMBIENT INTERNET OF THINGS TAG READER PROCEDURE FOR ESTIMATION OF TAG CHARGE TIME WITH PERIODIC POSITIONING ACTIVATION REFERENCE SIGNALS Nokia Technologies Oy BROWN, VERNAL U 2686 §103 Non-Final OA 13d AI Ready Mar 04, 2024
18682659 METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR TERAHERTZ CHANNEL COMMUNICATION Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy WILLIAMS, ALESSANDRA ROSE GLYNN 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue AI Ready Feb 09, 2024
18294399 INDICATION FOR PREAMBLE TRANSMISSION AFTER BEAM SWITCH Nokia Technologies Oy O CONNOR, BRIAN T 2465 §102 Non-Final OA 37d overdue AI Ready Feb 01, 2024
18416248 PAGING WITH CELL DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION Nokia Technologies Oy SABOURI, MAZDA 2641 §103 Final Rejection 6d AI Ready Jan 18, 2024
18576279 UNCONFIGURED MEASUREMENT GAPS HANDLING FOR FRAME BASED EQUIPMENT (FBE) OPERATION Nokia Technologies Oy TAHA, SHUKRI ABDALLAH 2478 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Jan 03, 2024
18558005 TRANSMISSION FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION Nokia Technologies Oy NGUYEN, CHUONG M 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue AI Ready Oct 30, 2023
18557994 TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue AI Ready Oct 30, 2023
18555755 METHOD FOR SHARING BASEBAND COMPUTING RESOURCES Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy RAHMAN, SHAH M 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue AI Ready Oct 17, 2023
18457270 DYNAMIC UPLINK TRANSMISSION SCHEME INDICATION FOR MULTI-PANEL USER EQUIPMENT Nokia Technologies Oy VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Aug 28, 2023
18447873 ENERGY HARVESTING AWARE USER EQUIPMENT POWER STATE TRANSITION Nokia Technologies Oy SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C 2467 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18276541 A NETWORK REPEATER Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER 2477 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue AI Ready Aug 09, 2023
18275248 MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICES IN 5G SYSTEMS Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy HAMPTON, TARELL A 2476 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18321867 CHANNEL ASSESSMENT DETERMINATION IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Nokia Technologies Oy SCIACCA, SCOTT M 2478 §103 Final Rejection 19d AI Ready May 23, 2023
18025296 BEAM FAILURE REPORTING Nokia Technologies Oy DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 40d AI Ready Mar 08, 2023
18108833 APPARATUS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS Nokia Technologies Oy LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 2414 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Feb 13, 2023
18020195 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR COMMUNICATIONS Nokia Technologies Oy BARUA, PRANESH K 2635 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023
18040290 CONTROL CHANNEL REPETITION WITH MAPPING SCHEME Nokia Technologies Oy SMITH, JOSHUA Y 2477 §102 Non-Final OA 9d AI Ready Feb 02, 2023
17963605 BROADCAST SESSION ESTABLISHMENT Nokia Technologies Oy CHANG, KAI J 2468 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue AI Ready Oct 11, 2022
14370123 USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITIES INDICATION TO ENABLE INTELLIGENT HANDOVER DECISION Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy TACDIRAN, ANDRE GEE 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 28d AI Ready Jul 01, 2014

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