Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
59 pending office actions • 2 clients • 57 examiners • 33 art units • 0 of 59 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
TUCKER ELLIS LLP - Sony Group focuses on Networking & Security with 12646 career applications. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate pct of 85.4. Prosecution typically requires 3.39 avg_office_actions_per_allowance to secure an allowance. This 3.39 avg_office_actions_per_allowance reflects the typical level of engagement with examiners in the networking sector.
There are currently 35 pending office actions for this client group. The 85.4 resolved allowance rate pct across 12646 career applications demonstrates a reliable success rate in networking technologies. The 3.39 avg_office_actions_per_allowance provides a benchmark for the expected number of examiner interactions. With 35 pending office actions, the firm is actively managing prosecution for this specific portfolio. The 85.4 resolved allowance rate pct and 12646 career applications indicate a robust practice in the networking and security domain.
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.
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.
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 | 26 (44%) |
| §102 only | 9 (15%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 21 (36%) |
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 | 2 | 89.3% | +4.9% |
| OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2 | 83.0% | +11.8% |
| NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 1 | 74.4% | +18.8% |
| SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | 1 | 82.8% | +11.9% |
| SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | 1 | 79.1% | +14.8% |
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
| LEE, SIU M | 1 | 91.1% | +11.0% |
| AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O | 1 | 83.4% | +6.8% |
| DIVECHA, NISHANT B | 1 | 54.2% | +36.1% |
| YAO, KWANG BIN | 1 | 50.0% | +10.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100059 | CARRIER PHASE POSITIONING TECHNIQUE | TRAN, CONGVAN | — |
| 18862862 | A DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED ISOLATION OF COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES | AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O | — |
| 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 | — |
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 |
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 18030736 | METHOD FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION | YANG, ZHAOHUI | 53d |
| 18847253 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | RASHID, HARUNUR | 62d |
| 19137706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR A KINEMATIC STRUCTURE, AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM | SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18875137 | SIGNAL DESIGN FOR BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATION | LEE, SIU M | — |
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 |
| 19165541 | DATA ENCODING AND DECODING | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | — |
| 19137706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR A KINEMATIC STRUCTURE, AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM | SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | — |
| 19111429 | POSITIONING USING A POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION EMPLOYING A FREQUENCY-HOP PATTERN | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | — |
| 18875137 | SIGNAL DESIGN FOR BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATION | LEE, SIU M | — |
| 18858688 | METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF A DATA SET OF INTER-DEPENDENT DATA | DIVECHA, NISHANT B | — |
| 18857164 | LOW-POWER REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR CELL RE-SELECTION | YAO, KWANG BIN | — |
| 18844965 | A METHOD, SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS NODE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sony | 58 |
| Sony Electronics Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2646 | 4 |
| 2461 | 3 |
| 3648 | 2 |
| 2468 | 2 |
| 2467 | 2 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2421 | 1 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19165541 | DATA ENCODING AND DECODING | Sony Group Corporation | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 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 |
| 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 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 | |
| 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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 | |
| 18857164 | LOW-POWER REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR CELL RE-SELECTION | Sony Group Corporation | YAO, KWANG BIN | §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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 | |
| 18849864 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF PERIODIC COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | Sony Group Corporation | KHAWAR, SAAD | §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 |
| 18847235 | METHODS FOR DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNALLING AND RELATED DEVICES AND NODES | Sony Group Corporation | HUQ, OBAIDUL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2024 | |
| 18847239 | BEAMWIDTH AND RADIATED POWER CONTROL OF COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE | §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 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2024 | |
| 18844965 | A METHOD, SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS NODE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE | Sony Group Corporation | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2024 | |
| 18844890 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENABLING UE TO ACCESS EDGE SERVICE | Sony Group Corporation | LEE, BRYAN Y | 2445 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 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 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 | |
| 18823975 | Systems And Methods For Tracking Persons In An Environment | Sony Electronics Inc. | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 | |
| 18841638 | METHODS FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION AND RELATED DEVICES | Sony Group Corporation | ELMEJJARMI, ABDELILLAH | §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 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 | |
| 18805895 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR COORDINATED UPLINK-BASED POSITIONING | Sony Group Corporation | SUN, DAVID ZHIJUN | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 | |
| 18837021 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ADAPTING CONFIGURATION OF DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION FOR USER EQUIPMENT | Sony Group Corporation | MATTIS, JASON E | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 | |
| 18835202 | BEACON SIGNALS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | Sony Europe B.V. | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | §102 | 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 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 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 | §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 |
| 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 |
| 18692825 | METHODS FOR HANDLING ENERGY CONDITIONS OF AN ENERGY HARVESTING WIRELESS DEVICE, A RELATED NETWORK NODE AND A RELATED WIRELESS DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2024 |
| 18691397 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENT AND INTERRUPTION EVENTS | Sony Group Corporation | TSVEY, GENNADIY | 2648 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18684740 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING REFERENCE SIGNAL COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM | Sony Group Corporation | CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18438495 | DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND METHOD | Sony Group Corporation | CHAE, KYU | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2024 |
| 18682925 | COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICES WITH FREQUENCY FILTERS | Sony Group Corporation | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 2465 | §102§103§112 | 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 |
| 18201434 | WIRELESS DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN ENERGY PARAMETER AND RELATED METHOD | Sony Group Corporation | DUFFY, JAMES P | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18035085 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING IN A NON-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | Sony Group Corporation | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18031796 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION | Sony Group Corporation | GEORGE, AYANAH S | 2467 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18030736 | METHOD FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION | Sony Group Corporation | YANG, ZHAOHUI | 2468 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18015701 | BEAM CONFIGURATION FOR ACCESSING AN OPEN SPECTRUM | Sony Group Corporation | KIM, HARRY H | 2411 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
| 18078950 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | Sony Europe B.V. | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2022 |
| 17796421 | CONTROL OF UPLINK TRANSMISSION FOR ERROR ESTIMATION | Sony Group Corporation | RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | 2471 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17794980 | ON-DEMAND TRANSMISSION OF A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A DISCONNECTED MODE | Sony Group Corporation | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2415 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2022 |
| 17846917 | SERVER DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR SPATIAL MAPPING OF A MODEL | Sony Group Corporation | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 2188 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
| 17563812 | TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MODEL FOR ACTION RECOGNITION | Sony Group Corporation | HUANG, YAO D | 2124 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
| 16968335 | FLEXIBLE ACTIVATION OF EARLY DATA TRANSMISSION | Sony Group Corporation | CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2020 |
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