Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Tong, Rea, Bentley & Kim, LLC

11 pending office actions • 3 clients • 11 examiners • 11 art units • 6 of 11 (55%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1833 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.2%
Allowance Rate
n=1833
+0.49σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1833
5.1
OAs to Allowance
n=1351
+0.95σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1351
1401 days
Time to Allowance
n=1351
+3.0pp
Interview Lift
n=1833
43.5%
RCE Rate
n=1833
8.4%
Appeal Rate
n=1833

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

89.1%
§101 Overcome
n=331
86.9%
§102 Overcome
n=662
87.4%
§103 Overcome
n=1007
89.0%
§112 Overcome
n=437

Specialization & Scale

H04L, H04W, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
43%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1833
6
Practitioners
n=1833
305.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=1833

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

6
Hard (55%)
5
Medium (45%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (27%)
§103 only5 (45%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
64% of docket
2
Communications
18% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HASAN, MOHAMMAD S 1 90.2% +6.7%
NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 1 79.0% +18.8%
KARIKARI, KWASI 1 80.1% +6.7%
ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT 1
KRETZER, CASEY L 1 86.8% +12.8%
THAWNG, MANG BOI 1 94.2% -2.3%
KASSIM, KHALED M 1 70.3% +38.3%
GHAFFARI, ABU Z 1 79.2% +47.0%
WONG, ERIC K 1 83.9% +8.1%
FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 1 83.0% +18.7%

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
18365002 ENHANCED NETWORK AVAILABILITY FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE NETWORKS IN SHARED SPECTRUM SYSTEMS THAWNG, MANG BOI 10d overdue
17797002 DEVICES, METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 19d
18904595 Untitled HASAN, MOHAMMAD S

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17862723 GUARANTEED-LATENCY NETWORKING PHAM, NHU 49d overdue
18103447 SELF-REPORTING OPTICAL CONNECTOR DEVICE WONG, ERIC K 25d overdue
18245671 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ASSIGN A TASK COORDINATION RESPONSIBILITY TO A NETWORK ENTITY COMPOSITION GHAFFARI, ABU Z 17d overdue
18696985 HANDOVER IMPROVEMENT FOR 5G AIR-TO-GROUND-SYSTEM KARIKARI, KWASI 70d
18696984 RANDOM ACCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR 5G AIR-TO-GROUND-SYSTEM NDIAYE, CHEIKH T
18607308 DUAL-POLARIZATION ALIGNMENT KRETZER, CASEY L

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18245671 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ASSIGN A TASK COORDINATION RESPONSIBILITY TO A NETWORK ENTITY COMPOSITION GHAFFARI, ABU Z 17d overdue
17797002 DEVICES, METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 19d
18304021 NETWORK MANAGEMENT KASSIM, KHALED M 63d
18696984 RANDOM ACCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR 5G AIR-TO-GROUND-SYSTEM NDIAYE, CHEIKH T
18607308 DUAL-POLARIZATION ALIGNMENT KRETZER, CASEY L

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Nokia 8
Skyfive AG 2
X-FAB 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21381
24471
26411
28991
26351
24761
24751
21951
28741
24621

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18904595 Untitled Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy HASAN, MOHAMMAD S 2138 §103 Non-Final OA Pending
18696984 RANDOM ACCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR 5G AIR-TO-GROUND-SYSTEM Skyfive AG NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 2447 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18696985 HANDOVER IMPROVEMENT FOR 5G AIR-TO-GROUND-SYSTEM Skyfive AG KARIKARI, KWASI 2641 §101§103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18609943 Light Sensitive Semiconductor Structures X-Fab Global Services GmbH ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT 2899 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 19, 2024
18607308 DUAL-POLARIZATION ALIGNMENT Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy KRETZER, CASEY L 2635 §103§112 Non-Final OA AI Ready Mar 15, 2024
18365002 ENHANCED NETWORK AVAILABILITY FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE NETWORKS IN SHARED SPECTRUM SYSTEMS Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy THAWNG, MANG BOI 2476 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue AI Ready Aug 03, 2023
18304021 NETWORK MANAGEMENT Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy KASSIM, KHALED M 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Apr 20, 2023
18245671 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ASSIGN A TASK COORDINATION RESPONSIBILITY TO A NETWORK ENTITY COMPOSITION Nokia Technologies Oy GHAFFARI, ABU Z 2195 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 17d overdue AI Ready Mar 16, 2023
18103447 SELF-REPORTING OPTICAL CONNECTOR DEVICE Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy WONG, ERIC K 2874 §102§103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue AI Ready Jan 30, 2023
17797002 DEVICES, METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Nokia Technologies Oy FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 19d AI Ready Aug 02, 2022
17862723 GUARANTEED-LATENCY NETWORKING Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy PHAM, NHU 2479 §102§103 Final Rejection 49d overdue AI Ready Jul 12, 2022

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