Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ruijie Networks Co. Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is handled by a different individual. The portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which suggests a focused technical scope despite the variety of examiners. This concentration in 2 art units may allow for a more consistent understanding of the technology area during prosecution.
KEEHN, RICHARD G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the busiest examiner only has 1 action, the 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners. Practitioners will need to manage relationships with 5 different examiners even though the work is limited to 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that while the technical field is narrow, the office's personnel assignments are not. The lack of examiner overlap across the 5 pending office actions means that each case will likely proceed on its own unique timeline.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEEHN, RICHARD G | 1 | 79.6% | +15.4% |
| SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | 1 | 83.0% | +10.8% |
| NGUYEN, PHUOC H | 1 | 86.3% | +14.0% |
| WONG, ERIC K | 1 | 83.8% | +7.6% |
| LIU, LI | 1 | 80.5% | +16.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896968 | NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, PHUOC H | 13d |
| 19010397 | SIGNAL CONVERSION MODULE, SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD, OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — |
| 18734372 | HEAT DISSIPATION APPARATUS, HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEM, AND HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, ERIC K | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896968 | NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, PHUOC H | 13d |
| 18475311 | PASSIVE AGGREGATION-LAYER NETWORK DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND WORKING METHOD THEREFOR | LIU, LI | 54d |
| 19175018 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING DEVICE PERFORMANCE CONSUMPTION, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KEEHN, RICHARD G | — |
| 19010397 | SIGNAL CONVERSION MODULE, SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD, OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2451 | 1 |
| 2634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175018 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING DEVICE PERFORMANCE CONSUMPTION, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KEEHN, RICHARD G | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19010397 | SIGNAL CONVERSION MODULE, SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD, OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18896968 | NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, PHUOC H | 2451 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18734372 | HEAT DISSIPATION APPARATUS, HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEM, AND HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, ERIC K | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18475311 | PASSIVE AGGREGATION-LAYER NETWORK DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND WORKING METHOD THEREFOR | LIU, LI | 2634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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