Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lawrence Lin currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the semiconductor and optics projects. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, which means that every one of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different person.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KAISER, SYED M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, no single examiner has a larger share of the workload than any other. This requires the applicant to manage 3 separate examiner relationships to move the current applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field toward issuance.
The fact that 3 distinct art units are involved indicates that the 3 pending office actions are technically distinct from one another. Practitioners must be prepared for 3 different examination styles, as each examiner will bring their own interpretation to the specific art unit they represent. This decentralized prosecution environment requires coordination to ensure consistent results across the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAISER, SYED M | 1 | 86.1% | +6.7% |
| LANE, DANIEL E | 1 | 3.8% | +8.3% |
| SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1 | 49.4% | +35.4% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19298470 | INTELLIGENT HUMAN CENTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH AMBIENT LIGHT MONITORING OF LIGHTING SITE ENVIRONMENT | KAISER, SYED M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311402 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING EMOTION NAVIGATION BY USING INTELLIGENCE HUMAN CENTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM | LANE, DANIEL E | 17d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17840399 | LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A DATABASE OF CORRELATIONS BETWEEN MULTISPECTRAL CIRCADIAN RHYTHM LIGHTING SCENARIO AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS INDEX AND THE METHOD THEREOF | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19298470 | INTELLIGENT HUMAN CENTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH AMBIENT LIGHT MONITORING OF LIGHTING SITE ENVIRONMENT | KAISER, SYED M | 2831 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 18311402 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING EMOTION NAVIGATION BY USING INTELLIGENCE HUMAN CENTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17840399 | LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A DATABASE OF CORRELATIONS BETWEEN MULTISPECTRAL CIRCADIAN RHYTHM LIGHTING SCENARIO AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS INDEX AND THE METHOD THEREOF | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1686 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLawrence Lin has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Syed M Kaiser has the most, with 1 of Lawrence Lin's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
