Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Idealab Studio LLC

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Idealab Studio LLC currently has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, indicating a matching count between pending matters and the individuals reviewing them. This spread suggests that the company's prosecution results are not dependent on any single examiner's discretion but are instead subject to 5 different perspectives.

The portfolio is situated within 2 distinct art units, concentrating the 5 pending office actions into a limited number of technical departments. The busiest examiner, TRUONG, KATELYN T, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners each handling 1 of the 5 pending office actions, the workload is distributed across the assigned staff. This arrangement requires the applicant to maintain separate examiner relationships while adhering to the specific guidelines of 2 art units.

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

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

5
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (60%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
3
Business / Other
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRUONG, KATELYN T 1 57.0% +37.6%
SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 1 75.5% +35.8%
LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 1 60.0% +66.7%
HIJAZ, OMAR F 1 55.5% +35.4%
LAU, TUNG S 1 83.0% +14.5%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19176794 SELF-SUSTAINING INDOOR FARMING SYSTEM TRUONG, KATELYN T 49d overdue
18677034 HIGHLY INSULATED TILE HIJAZ, OMAR F 15d overdue
18830227 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INVERTERS AND POWER SOURCES SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED —
18768371 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM LAU, KAITLYN RENEE —
18659295 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IMAGE SYNTHESIS LAU, TUNG S —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19176794 SELF-SUSTAINING INDOOR FARMING SYSTEM TRUONG, KATELYN T 49d overdue
18677034 HIGHLY INSULATED TILE HIJAZ, OMAR F 15d overdue
18830227 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INVERTERS AND POWER SOURCES SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED —
18768371 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM LAU, KAITLYN RENEE —
18659295 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IMAGE SYNTHESIS LAU, TUNG S —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3647 1
3635 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19176794 SELF-SUSTAINING INDOOR FARMING SYSTEM TRUONG, KATELYN T 3647 §102§103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2025
18830227 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INVERTERS AND POWER SOURCES SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 10, 2024
18768371 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM LAU, KAITLYN RENEE — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024
18677034 HIGHLY INSULATED TILE HIJAZ, OMAR F 3635 §102§103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18659295 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IMAGE SYNTHESIS LAU, TUNG S — §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2024

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