Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C.

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

176 pending office actions • 28 clients • 165 examiners • 97 art units • 0 of 176 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

WITHROW & TERRANOVA, P.L.L.C. has 174 pending office actions in Networking & Security and 8177 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 91.72%, with an average of 3.6 office actions per allowance.

The profile shows a substantial active docket supported by a large application base. The allowance rate describes the firm’s reported resolved outcomes, while the office-action average indicates that allowance is commonly reached after multiple examination exchanges. For practitioners, this combination supports structured management of networking and security prosecution, including attention to claim differentiation and response sequencing. It does not, however, identify which technologies or rejection types account for the reported results.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=8177 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.7%
Allowance Rate
n=8177
+0.53σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=8177
3.6
OAs to Allowance
n=5254
+0.12σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5254
1047 days
Time to Allowance
n=5254
+3.2pp
Interview Lift
n=8177
30.2%
RCE Rate
n=8177
3.7%
Appeal Rate
n=8177

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

77.5%
§101 Overcome
n=498
81.1%
§102 Overcome
n=2513
83.5%
§103 Overcome
n=3825
84.2%
§112 Overcome
n=1894

Specialization & Scale

H04W, H04L, H04B
Top CPC Subclasses
26%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=8177
13
Practitioners
n=8177
629.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=8177

Portfolio Summary

176
Total Pending OAs
107
Non-Final OAs
54
Final Rejections
15
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 37 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
16
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 37 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (16)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (4)

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.

80
Hard (45%)
89
Medium (51%)
6
Easy (3%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other8 (5%)
§103 only71 (40%)
§102 only17 (10%)
§112 only3 (2%)
Double-patenting only3 (2%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)72 (41%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
5% of docket
78
Information Tech
44% of docket
27
Communications
15% of docket
36
Semiconductors
20% of docket
19
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
8
Business / Other
5% 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.

1,760 h
Manual time on pending OAs
352 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
616 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
15.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, QUANG N 5 87.7% +16.6%
TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE 2 73.5% -4.6%
MIAN, OMER S 2 70.3% +51.7%
JAVAID, JAMAL 2 88.5% +5.9%
KIM, HARRY H 2 89.9% +8.4%
OVEISSI, MANSOUR 2 83.1% +11.6%
STARCK, ERIC ANTHONY 2 63.2% +14.0%
PHUONG, DAI 2 76.0% +14.9%
YANG, NAN-YING 1 77.9% +8.2%
ELAHI, TOWFIQ 1 79.7% +14.4%

Quick Wins (8)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18816779 SECURE, ANONYMOUS BROWSING WITH A REMOTE BROWSING SERVER NGUYEN, QUANG N 40d
18816932 SECURE, ANONYMOUS BROWSING WITH A REMOTE BROWSING SERVER NGUYEN, QUANG N 55d
18816837 SECURE, ANONYMOUS BROWSING WITH A REMOTE BROWSING SERVER NGUYEN, QUANG N —
18731973 RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURES FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS JAVAID, JAMAL —
18709971 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE NODE IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK KIM, HARRY H —
18709767 POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT OF RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) NODE KIM, HARRY H —
18686090 METHODS AND NETWORK NODES FOR VERIFYING CELL RELATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK OVEISSI, MANSOUR —
18285331 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING LIMITED SET OF PATH LOSS REFERENCE SIGNALS OVEISSI, MANSOUR —

Hard Cases (80)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18024096 RADIO FREQUENCY POWER DIVIDER AND CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE SAME RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 210d overdue
18472349 PHOTOTHERAPEUTIC ILLUMINATION DEVICES WITH MODULAR STRUCTURES JENNESS, NATHAN JAY 45d overdue
17599879 HANDLING OF TRANSMISSIONS IN THE SERVING CELL DISCOVERY BURST TRANSMISSION (DBT) WINDOW LAMONT, BENJAMIN S 44d overdue
18512165 MULTIPLE CHIP LED PACKAGES WITH COMMON ELECTRODES JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA 17d overdue
17282879 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYTICS FUNCTION DISCOVERY SERRAO, RANODHI N 3d overdue
17494264 LUMIPHORIC MATERIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR MULTIPLE-JUNCTION LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES HSIEH, HSIN YI 12d
18551999 METHODS AND DEVICES ON TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE PERFORMANCE FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION L AND R, DOCKET 21d
18546863 OVEN MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 22d

Interview Candidates (14)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18021192 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANGING LBT FOR UNLICENSED NETWORKS PHUONG, DAI 9d
18015119 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION SERVICE PHUONG, DAI 12d
18254492 MOORING COMPONENT STARCK, ERIC ANTHONY 28d
18254493 COMPRESSIVE ELEMENT FOR A MOORING COMPONENT STARCK, ERIC ANTHONY 28d
18816779 SECURE, ANONYMOUS BROWSING WITH A REMOTE BROWSING SERVER NGUYEN, QUANG N 40d
18816932 SECURE, ANONYMOUS BROWSING WITH A REMOTE BROWSING SERVER NGUYEN, QUANG N 55d
18816807 SECURE, ANONYMOUS BROWSING WITH A REMOTE BROWSING SERVER NGUYEN, QUANG N 56d
19414506 LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE PACKAGES WITH VARYING CURRENT PULSE WIDTH MODULATION AND RELATED METHODS ELAHI, TOWFIQ —

Client Portfolio (28 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28177
24735
24115
26454
24534
24614
28453
26473
24133
24693

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19559447 STRAIN-BASED FORCE SENSOR MODULE IN A TOUCH-BASED ELECTRONIC DEVICE Semtech Corporation YANG, NAN-YING 2629 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2026
19414506 LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE PACKAGES WITH VARYING CURRENT PULSE WIDTH MODULATION AND RELATED METHODS Creeled, Inc. ELAHI, TOWFIQ 2625 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 10, 2025
19311207 ACTIVE CONTROL OF LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAYS Creeled, Inc. CHAN, WEI 2845 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19260823 ADVANCED LAA SCHEDULING FOR MULTI-POINT SUBSET TRANSMISSION IN SHARED CELLS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) SINKANTARAKORN, PAWARIS §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 07, 2025
19188147 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED COMPONENT Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD 3725 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 24, 2025
19177186 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FORMED PRODUCT Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. STEPHENS, MATTHEW §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 11, 2025
19173103 NETWORK NODES AND METHODS THEREIN FOR NOTIFICATION DELIVERY Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) WALSH, JOHN B 2451 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 08, 2025
19169779 THERMAL INSULATION PAD Sfs Group Fastening Technology Ltd. HIJAZ, OMAR F 3635 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 03, 2025
19115949 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FEATURE SUPPORT NOTIFICATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) CHOUAT, ABDERRAHMEN 2451 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2025
19107321 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA CALIBRATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) KAMAL, FATIHA 2647 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19105386 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) AZIZ, ABDULMAJEED 2875 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19055113 TOOL HOLDER DEVICE OF TOOL MAGAZINE Shin-Yain Industrial Co., Ltd. WILENSKY, MOSHE K 3725 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 17, 2025
19049094 TWO-FUNCTION PUSH TRIGGER Qorvo US, Inc. TZENG, FRED 2625 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2025
18994387 PASSIVE INTERMODULATION REMOVAL USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J 2649 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
18994375 METHOD AND NETWORK NODE FOR TRANSFER OF A DIGITAL TWIN OF A NETWORK Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) COUSINS, JOSEPH M 2459 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
18992597 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NETWORK TRAFFIC CONTROL Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) NGUYEN, QUANG N 2441 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 09, 2025
18879881 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 2498 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19001712 INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. BEMKO, TARAS P 3672 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 26, 2024
18979809 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF JOINT HARQ FEEDBACK FOR PDSCH TRANSMISSION OVER MULTIPLE TRPs Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) WU, JIANYE 2462 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18874761 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION SESSION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN EDGE COMPUTING Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) ANYAN, BARBARA BURGESS 2457 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18874324 RENDERING REPRESENTATIONS OF USERS ON A USER INTERFACE OF A VIRTUAL REALITY COMMUNICATION DEVICE Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) HALEY, JOSEPH R 2621 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2024
18872945 SUPPORT FOR SESSION CONTINUITY IN MULTIPLE NSACF SCENARIOS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) PASIA, REDENTOR M 2413 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18960622 NUMEROLOGY-DEPENDENT DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL MAPPING Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18955283 APPLICATION FUNCTION INFLUENCE IN APPLICATION CONTEXT RELOCATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) SISON, JUNE Y 2455 §103Other Final Rejection 70d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18867484 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING RADIO LINK FAILURE DURING PATH SWITCH Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M 2469 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18867068 METHOD AND NETWORK DEVICE FOR PTP CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 19, 2024
18866676 MANAGING UNIT AND METHOD IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL 2642 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18866702 METHODS AND NETWORK ENTITIES FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE IN A BASE STATION SYSTEM Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H 2474 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18951523 DEVICE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF A LIQUID IN A USER'S MOUTH Aliva AS RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL 3772 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18948768 ULTRA-LOW LATENCY REMOTE APPLICATION ACCESS Penguin Computing, Inc. ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2457 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18943556 HAND-HELD TIRE SCANNER AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE PROFILE OF A TIRE Snap-On Equipment S.r.l. A Unico Socio ALLEN, ANDRE J 2855 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 11, 2024
18864481 MANUFACTURING CONTINUOUS BELT OF TYRE BASE LAYER Retyre AS KOCH, GEORGE R 1745 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18863406 URSP RULE PROVISIONING IN ROAMING Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE 2641 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2024
18862404 PROCESSING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DATA Norwegian University Of Science And Technology (Ntnu) CESE, KENNY A 2663 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18860734 DETERMINING CHANNELS AND SIGNALS FOR APPLYING A TIME ADVANCE Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) NAWAZ, ASAD M 2463 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18859835 ANALOG WIDEBAND AND DIGITAL NARROWBAND HYBRID BEAM STEERING Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) KUNTZ, CURTIS A 2646 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 24, 2024
18859644 SRS FOR RECIPROCITY-BASED JOINT DL TRANSMISSION FROM MULTIPLE TRPs Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) TRAN, TUAN A 2648 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 24, 2024
18859595 CONFIGURATION OF PERIODIC BEHAVIOR OF SPATIAL FILTER IN REPEATER-ASSISTED NETWORKS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) TORRES, JUAN A 2634 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 24, 2024
18856619 CARRIER CONFIGURATION AND SCHEDULING FOR SUB-BAND FULL DUPLEX SYSTEMS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) RAHMAN, SHAH M 2413 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 13, 2024
18854668 ENHANCED CU-DU AND Xn SIGNALING FOR XR AWARENESS Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) HUQ, OBAIDUL 2473 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18908218 ACTIVE VAPORIZATION OF MOISTURE IN A THERMOELECTRIC MODULE OR SUBSYSTEM Phononic, Inc. STICKEL, JOSHUA MATTHEW 3763 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18904392 MEMORY MODULE MOUNTING FRAME Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. KRIM, PETER 2841 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 02, 2024
18851744 UE LOCATION REPRESENTED BY IAB-MT USER LOCATION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) CUMMING, WILLIAM D 2645 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18900344 BROADCAST POSITIONING SYSTEM SUPPORTING LOCATION SERVICES THROUGH OVER-THE-AIR TELEVISION (TV) SIGNALS National Association Of Broadcasters CHEN, JUNPENG 2645 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18897332 RADIO-NETWORK NODE, WIRELESS DEVICE AND METHODS PERFORMED THEREIN Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) RENNER, BRANDON M 2411 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18851318 HANDLING OF GROUPS OF USER EQUIPMENT IN A CORE NETWORK Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) HUANG, WEIBIN 2471 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18850654 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELAY NODE DISCOVERY Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) ELMEJJARMI, ABDELILLAH 2462 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2024
18849512 POWER EFFICIENT AND ROBUST WAKE UP SIGNALING Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) CHU, WUTCHUNG 2418 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2024
18887256 MULTI-LAYER REFLECTIVE STRUCTURES FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE CHIPS AND RELATED METHODS Creeled, Inc. SUN, MICHAEL BRENNAN 2892 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 17, 2024
18830047 DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL (DMRS) FORMAT SELECTION Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) HANCE, ROBERT J 3992 — Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Sep 10, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C.'s patent allowance rate?

91.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C. were allowed, across 8,177 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C. average before allowance?

3.60 office actions per allowed application on average.

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176 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 28 clients, before 165 examiners in 97 art units.

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