Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Practical Creativity LLC is active in the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical area for its current networking filings. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a targeted approach to securing patent protection in the networking sector.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, ZONG, RUOLEI. ZONG, RUOLEI is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This profile shows a concentrated interaction with the patent office, involving only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the company's networking portfolio. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends entirely on the review of this individual examiner.
The alignment of the pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a streamlined prosecution footprint. This structure may allow for a more consistent dialogue between the applicant and the office, as there are no competing matters across different examiners or units. The focus on Networking & Security ensures that the prosecution remains within a specialized technical domain, overseen by ZONG, RUOLEI.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZONG, RUOLEI | 1 | 86.9% | +12.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767770 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING INTERACTIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | ZONG, RUOLEI | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2441 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18767770 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING INTERACTIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | ZONG, RUOLEI | 2441 | Other | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
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