Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: LI, SHI K

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2613 2634 2635 2637

This examiner grants 73% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

73.3%
Allow Rate
+11.3% vs TC avg
843
Total Applications
+5.3%
Interview Lift
1050
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 824 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.0%
§101 Eligibility
12.5%
§102 Novelty
56.7%
§103 Obviousness
22.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18021800 GENERATING A COMMON AND STABLE RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) CARRIER FOR A PLURALITY OF DISTRIBUTED UNITS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18646441 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSES Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18542430 METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA VIA FREE SPACE SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN A DATACENTER Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18327233 AUTOMATIC CONNECTION DISCOVERY AND CONNECTION VERIFICATION Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18417214 SELF-ALIGNING WINDOW MOUNTED COMMUNICATION APPARATUS Non-Final OA T-Mobile USA, Inc.
18276322 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING OAM INFORMATION BLOCK Non-Final OA ZTE Corporation
18699671 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION METHOD Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
18561803 PATH DETERMINATION APPARATUS, PATH DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18367970 WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SHUFFLE BOX FOR OPTICALLY CONNECTING DEVICES Final Rejection MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
18436859 APPARATUS COMPRISING ANALOG MULTIPLEXERS AND METHOD FOR AN APPARATUS COMPRISING ANALOG MULTIPLEXERS Non-Final OA Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
18141525 Distributed Broadband Network Gateway for Maximizing IPv4 Address Utilization Non-Final OA Calix, Inc.
18575632 COEXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE OPTICAL SERVICES WITHIN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK AND PASSIVE OPTICAL MODULE FOR THE SAME Non-Final OA CommScope Technologies LLC
18540954 System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Recovery of Transport System Faults in Optical Communications Networks Final Rejection II-VI Delaware, Inc.
18358912 MULTI-WAVEFORM DIGITAL PREDISTORTION CALIBRATION Final Rejection Maxlinear, Inc.
18518307 SUBCHANNEL PHOTONIC ROUTING, SWITCHING AND PROTECTION WITH SIMPLIFIED UPGRADES OF WDM OPTICAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Snell Holdings, LLC
18297408 INTRA-CARRIER SPECTRAL SHAPING FOR HIGH-BAUD RATE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SIGNALS Final Rejection Infinera Corp.
17870968 HYBRID OPTOELECTRICAL SWITCHES Non-Final OA Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

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