Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
59 pending office actions • 1 client • 56 examiners • 42 art units • 0 of 59 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days
TUCKER ELLIS LLP - Sony Group has 57 pending office actions in Networking & Security. Its career record includes 12720 applications, a resolved allowance rate of 85.41%, and an average of 3.38 office actions per allowance.
The profile combines active networking and security work with a substantial career application record. The resolved allowance rate supplies historical outcome context, while the office-action average describes examination activity associated with allowed cases. The application total provides scale, but does not identify the portion attributable to this specific client profile. Practitioners should therefore use the figures as reported and keep the pending docket distinct from resolved performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 + other | 2 (3%) |
| §103 only | 25 (42%) |
| §102 only | 8 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 23 (39%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, CONGVAN | 3 | 89.2% | +5.0% |
| OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2 | 83.1% | +11.6% |
| SMITH, STEPHEN R | 1 | 70.7% | +11.5% |
| CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | 1 | 69.7% | +28.6% |
| YU, LIHONG | 1 | 81.4% | +19.0% |
| SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | 1 | 82.9% | +11.8% |
| AZIZ, ADNAN | 1 | 77.1% | +34.3% |
| SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | 1 | 79.1% | +14.8% |
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
| KAO, JUTAI | 1 | 80.2% | +16.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19237193 | BEAMFORMING AND POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSIONS | YU, LIHONG | — |
| 19100059 | CARRIER PHASE POSITIONING TECHNIQUE | TRAN, CONGVAN | — |
| 18844965 | A METHOD, SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS NODE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | — |
| 18719234 | METHODS FOR ENABLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A NETWORK NODE AND A DISCOVERABLE WIRELESS DEVICE, A RELATED NETWORK NODE AND RELATED WIRELESS DEVICE | TRAN, CONGVAN | — |
| 18718646 | TIMING ERROR GROUPS FOR TRANSMISSION TIMING ERRORS OF POSITIONING REFERNCE SIGNALS | TRAN, CONGVAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708847 | AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, A SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VICTUAL ORDERING SYSTEM | HAYLES, ASHFORD S | 31d overdue |
| 18691397 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENT AND INTERRUPTION EVENTS | TSVEY, GENNADIY | 22d overdue |
| 18708048 | FILTER MANAGEMENT FOR WIDE OUTPUT BEAMS AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES | MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | 3d overdue |
| 18270636 | REFERENCE SIGNALS IN DISCONNECTED MODE | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 6d |
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 18847253 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | RASHID, HARUNUR | 62d |
| 19150112 | A DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING A CONTROL SIGNAL | SMITH, STEPHEN R | — |
| 19137706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR A KINEMATIC STRUCTURE, AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM | SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 19150112 | A DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING A CONTROL SIGNAL | SMITH, STEPHEN R | — |
| 19148589 | AN INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | — |
| 19237193 | BEAMFORMING AND POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSIONS | YU, LIHONG | — |
| 19137706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR A KINEMATIC STRUCTURE, AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM | SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | — |
| 19231822 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ON-DEMAND POSITIONING | AZIZ, ADNAN | — |
| 19111429 | POSITIONING USING A POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION EMPLOYING A FREQUENCY-HOP PATTERN | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | — |
| 18992136 | A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE, A COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE CONTROLLING NODE, AND A COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | KAO, JUTAI | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sony | 59 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2646 | 5 |
| 2647 | 3 |
| 2412 | 3 |
| 2484 | 2 |
| 2421 | 2 |
| 2473 | 2 |
| 2469 | 2 |
| 2415 | 2 |
| 2468 | 2 |
| 2467 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19150112 | A DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING A CONTROL SIGNAL | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | SMITH, STEPHEN R | 2484 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19148589 | AN INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | Sony Group Corporation | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19237193 | BEAMFORMING AND POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSIONS | Sony Group Corporation | YU, LIHONG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 | |
| 19137706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR A KINEMATIC STRUCTURE, AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM | Sony Group Corporation | SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | 3657 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19231822 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ON-DEMAND POSITIONING | Sony Group Corporation | AZIZ, ADNAN | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19111429 | POSITIONING USING A POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION EMPLOYING A FREQUENCY-HOP PATTERN | Sony Group Corporation | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | 2421 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | Sony Europe B.V. | YANG, NIEN | 2484 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
| 19100059 | CARRIER PHASE POSITIONING TECHNIQUE | Sony Group Corporation | TRAN, CONGVAN | 2647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18992136 | A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE, A COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE CONTROLLING NODE, AND A COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | KAO, JUTAI | 2473 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18875130 | METHODS FOR HANDLING SIDELINK COMMUNICATION WITH A GROUP OF WIRELESS DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH A PREDETERMINED GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AND RELATED DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | CHOI, HAESHIL JESSICA | 2479 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 |
| 18875137 | SIGNAL DESIGN FOR BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATION | Sony Group Corporation | LEE, SIU M | 2632 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 |
| 18862862 | A DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED ISOLATION OF COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O | 2642 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18858688 | METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF A DATA SET OF INTER-DEPENDENT DATA | Sony Group Corporation | DIVECHA, NISHANT B | 2419 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18857704 | A METHOD FOR CONFIGURING TRANSMISSION RESOURCES FOR A USER EQUIPMENT, A RADIO NETWORK NODE AND A USER EQUIPMENT | Sony Group Corporation | VAN, JENKEY | 2477 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18857164 | LOW-POWER REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR CELL RE-SELECTION | Sony Group Corporation | YAO, KWANG BIN | 2473 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18854612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A DIRECTION FROM ONE UE TO ANOTHER USING SIDELINK | Sony Group Corporation | DOAN, PHUOC HUU | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18849864 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF PERIODIC COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | Sony Group Corporation | KHAWAR, SAAD | 2412 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18847253 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | Sony Group Corporation | RASHID, HARUNUR | 2497 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Sep 15, 2024 |
| 18847239 | BEAMWIDTH AND RADIATED POWER CONTROL OF COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2024 |
| 18847233 | METHODS FOR MANAGING POSITIONING RFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF WIRELESS DEVICES, A RELATED POSITIONING NETWORK NODE AND A RELATED WIRELESS DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | CUMMING, WILLIAM D | 2645 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2024 |
| 18844965 | A METHOD, SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS NODE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE | Sony Group Corporation | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2415 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2024 |
| 18844345 | A MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF AN IMAGE FROM A PLURALITY OF IMAGE SOURCES | Sony Group Corporation | DANG, RACHEL YEN VI | 2661 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18843634 | LOW-POWER REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR CHANNEL MEASUREMENT | Sony Group Corporation | HARPER, KEVIN C | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 | |
| 18841638 | METHODS FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION AND RELATED DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | ELMEJJARMI, ABDELILLAH | 2462 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18841068 | INTER-LINK INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT FOR DATA LINK VIA COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | PHAM, BRENDA H | 2412 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18835202 | BEACON SIGNALS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | Sony Europe B.V. | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 2469 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18727321 | METHODS FOR HANDLING MOBILITY OF A WIRELESS DEVICE AND RELATED NETWORK NODES | Sony Group Corporation | KINCAID, LESTER G | 2649 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18724453 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION BY A WIRELESS DEVICE, RELATED NETWORK NODE AND RELATED WIRELESS DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | BLANTON, JOHN D | 2466 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18719551 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SELECTING CONTENT FOR DISPLAY DURING A JOURNEY TO ALLEVIATE MOTION SICKNESS | Sony Europe B.V. | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18719234 | METHODS FOR ENABLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A NETWORK NODE AND A DISCOVERABLE WIRELESS DEVICE, A RELATED NETWORK NODE AND RELATED WIRELESS DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | TRAN, CONGVAN | 2647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18718646 | TIMING ERROR GROUPS FOR TRANSMISSION TIMING ERRORS OF POSITIONING REFERNCE SIGNALS | Sony Group Corporation | TRAN, CONGVAN | 2647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18665387 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MONITORING A NETWORK | Sony Group Corporation | BURGESS, GLENTON B | 2454 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18708847 | AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, A SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VICTUAL ORDERING SYSTEM | Sony Group Corporation | HAYLES, ASHFORD S | 3627 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18708048 | FILTER MANAGEMENT FOR WIDE OUTPUT BEAMS AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | 3648 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18703600 | A METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18702723 | NETWORK-CONTROLLED REPEATER DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SIGNALLING | Sony Group Corporation | NGUYEN, LIEM HONG | 2416 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18700258 | METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A REMOTE WIRELESS DEVICE AND A NETWORK NOCE, RELATED WIRELESS DEVICES AND RELATED NETWORK NODE | Sony Group Corporation | SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL | 2646 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18696664 | CONFIGURATION OF A REPEATER STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMNUICATION NETWORK | Sony Group Corporation | SANTOS, FRANCESCA LIMA | 2468 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18691397 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENT AND INTERRUPTION EVENTS | Sony Group Corporation | TSVEY, GENNADIY | 2648 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18682925 | COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES WITH FREQUENCY FILTERS | Sony Group Corporation | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 2465 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2024 |
| 18438495 | DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND METHOD | Sony Group Corporation | CHAE, KYU | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2024 |
| 18681440 | METHODS FOR PREDICTING ENERGY LEVEL FOR AN ENERGY HARVESTING WIRELESS DEVICE, A RELATED NETWORK NODE AND A RELATED WIRELESS DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | XU, PETER | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18291542 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENT WITH LOW LATENCY | Sony Group Corporation | BEAMER, TEMICA M | 2646 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18289068 | COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES PROVIDING OFDM SYMBOL DELAYS | Sony Group Corporation | ABELSON, RONALD B | 2476 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18287974 | METHODS FOR HANDLING SIDELINK COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF WIRELESS DEVICES, RELATED WIRELESS DEVICES AND A RELATED NETWORK NODE | Sony Group Corporation | HO, CHUONG T | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18282763 | ENHANCED CHANNEL QUALITY REPORTING | Sony Group Corporation | HUDA, MUHAMMAD AINUL | 2467 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18282533 | POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL BASED POSITIONING | Sony Group Corporation | AJAYI, JOEL | 2646 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Sep 17, 2023 |
| 18281726 | FILTER MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE FOR RECONFIGURABLE RELAYING DEVICES USING POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING OF DATA SIGNALS AND REFERENCE SIGNALS | Sony Group Corporation | KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18226528 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUSES AND METHODS | Sony Group Corporation | LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 2694 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18270662 | EFFICIENT USAGE OF TIME RESOURCE BLOCKS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNALS | Sony Group Corporation | SANDHU, NEVENA ZECEVIC | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial85.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Tucker Ellis LLP - Sony Group were allowed, across 12,720 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
59 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 56 examiners in 42 art units.
