Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lawrence Lin has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. The company works with 3 distinct examiners. The distribution across 2 art units indicates some technical overlap among the 3 active filings, even though the total volume is small.
SYED M KAISER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing one matter. This means that for each of the 3 pending office actions, the company must address the specific concerns of a different examiner. The presence of 3 distinct examiners across only 2 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners are likely working within the same technical group at the patent office.
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 | 3.9% | +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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | 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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