Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Lemon Inc.

83 pending office actions • 47 art units • 82 examiners • 0 of 83 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 138 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

83
Total Pending OAs
44
Non-Final OAs
27
Final Rejections
12
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

19
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (19)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

36
Hard (43%)
44
Medium (53%)
3
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (7%)
§101 + other12 (14%)
§103 only36 (43%)
§102 only7 (8%)
§112 only2 (2%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)18 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
1% of docket
28
Information Tech
34% of docket
26
Communications
31% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
23
Business / Other
28% 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.

830 h
Manual time on pending OAs
166 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
290 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 2 81.7% +34.4%
MARANDI, JAMES R 1 60.2% +27.7%
SYED, FARHAN M 1 75.1% +23.2%
PENG, HUAWEN A 1 82.3% +20.3%
CHONG, HANNA 1
DHAKAD, RUPALI 1 37.1% +30.0%
DAGNEW, SABA 1 37.7% +17.6%
TORRENTE, RICHARD T 1 69.7% +14.0%
LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI 1 84.7% +48.0%
ZEROUAL, OMAR 1 33.7% +39.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19142924 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING PENG, HUAWEN A
18817627 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING PROGRAM SERVICE LOGIC, DEVICE AND MEDIUM NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH

Hard Cases (36)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18252559 DATA PROTECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, MEDIUM AND DEVICE TRAN, QUOC A 30d overdue
17538938 IMAGE ATTRIBUTE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT LI, RUIPING 26d overdue
17737327 CIRCUIT MODULE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MATRIX MULTIPLICATION DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO 17d overdue
19053359 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WORKFLOW AUTOMATION DAGNEW, SABA 4d overdue
18787432 DETERMINING SPEED CHANGE RATIO FOR AUDIO SAMPLES WEAVER, ADAM MICHAEL 4d overdue
18878833 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETURN EVALUATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAO, VINCENT M 3d overdue
17727015 ATTRIBUTE AND RATING CO-EXTRACTION SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 13d
18588735 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DELIVERY COST ESTIMATION PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 19d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19024468 BUSINESS INFORMATION GENERATION ZEROUAL, OMAR 8d overdue
19053359 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WORKFLOW AUTOMATION DAGNEW, SABA 4d overdue
19319496 CONTENT PREPROCESSING MARANDI, JAMES R
19161213 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA QUERY SYED, FARHAN M
19142924 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING PENG, HUAWEN A
19106832 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SERVICE REQUEST PROCESSING DHAKAD, RUPALI
19038574 MOTION CANDIDATE DERIVATION WITH SEARCH ORDER AND CODING MODE TORRENTE, RICHARD T
18997796 TEXT TRANSLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2618 4
2613 3
2611 3
2421 2
2161 2
2616 2
2486 2
2658 2
2168 2
2481 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19319496 CONTENT PREPROCESSING MARANDI, JAMES R 2421 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2025
19161213 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA QUERY SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2025
19142924 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING PENG, HUAWEN A 2169 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2025
19207152 VIDEO CONTENT PROCESSING CHONG, HANNA 4100 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2025
19106832 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SERVICE REQUEST PROCESSING DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2025
19053359 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WORKFLOW AUTOMATION DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §101§103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2025
19038574 MOTION CANDIDATE DERIVATION WITH SEARCH ORDER AND CODING MODE TORRENTE, RICHARD T 2485 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2025
18997796 TEXT TRANSLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI 2656 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2025
19024468 BUSINESS INFORMATION GENERATION ZEROUAL, OMAR 3628 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
19013214 IMAGE EDITING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2025
18878833 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETURN EVALUATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAO, VINCENT M 3622 §101 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 24, 2024
18990381 VIDEO GENERATION MODEL WITH DYNAMICS ADAPTERS SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D 2613 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18987292 EFFECT EDITING KALHORI, DAN F 2618 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2024
18977665 GAME MAKER MODEL FOR GENERATING GAME APPLICATIONS DEODHAR, OMKAR A 3715 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2024
18976227 EFFECTS GENERATION MODEL PROTAZI, BRIGITER DIVULALE 2612 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18873688 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM AKHAVANNIK, HADI §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18873469 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM DESIRE, GREGORY M §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18974344 TEXT GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18873161 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WELCH, DAVID T §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18967968 METHOD, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR DETECTING KEY SEGMENTS IN AUDIO OR VIDEO THOMAS-HOMESCU, ANNE L §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2024
18967297 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING A CONTENT RECOMMENDATION REQUEST SALL, EL HADJI MALICK 2457 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 03, 2024
18869808 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING VIRTUAL AVATAR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM ZALALEE, SULTANA MARCIA 2611 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18863900 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SONG LIST, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18938503 METHOD AND SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REPLYING ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2024
18932348 METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2024
18926902 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING BACKBONE NETWORK, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE LEE, BENEDICT E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18923549 TEMPORALLY CONSISTENT HUMAN IMAGE ANIMATION METHOD BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 22, 2024
18913935 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MEDIUM AND PRODUCT FOR VIDEO BITRATE ADJUSTMENT LIN, JASON K 2425 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 11, 2024
18853397 COLOR CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM LIN, JESSICA YIFANG §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 01, 2024
18900323 METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EFFECT VIDEO, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM YANG, YI 2616 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18891729 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION CHOWDHURY, RAYEEZ R §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18844909 LINE EFFECT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRODUCT OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE 2618 §103§112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18821791 IMAGE PROCESSING SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 2024
18819980 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF TARGET SEGMENTATION KUDO, KEN §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2024
18820102 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM TSENG, CHARLES 2613 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18817627 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING PROGRAM SERVICE LOGIC, DEVICE AND MEDIUM NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18813829 FILTER STRUCTURE FOR INFRARED CAMERA, INFRARED CAMERA AND VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICE BOOHER, ADAM W §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18805417 METHOD FOR GENERATING PAGE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARCIA, GABRIEL I §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2024
18837577 FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO, SLICING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHIO, TAT CHI 2486 §102 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2024
18793751 EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETER TESTING NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2024
18792508 IMPLEMENTING DRAG-BASED IMAGE EDITING ABDI, AMARA §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2024
18792516 FILTERING IMAGE-TEXT DATA USING A FINE-TUNED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL KOROMA, SORIE IBRAHIM 2662 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2024
18787432 DETERMINING SPEED CHANGE RATIO FOR AUDIO SAMPLES WEAVER, ADAM MICHAEL 2658 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18832857 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EFFECT IMAGE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, PHU K 2616 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2024
18782126 PERSONALIZED CONTENT GRADIENT CREATION NGUYEN, DUNE NGOC 2618 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jul 24, 2024
18764873 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO DETECTION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM RODRIGUEZ, DANIEL §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2024
18758347 FAULT IDENTIFICATION AND RECOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED TRAINING LIN, KATHERINE Y 2113 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18755479 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING WITH SYNTHETIC DATA AND ATTENTION MASKS HE, WEIMING 2611 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18751609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA INQUIRY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT OWYANG, MICHELLE N 2168 §112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18723358 PARTICLE SPECIAL EFFECT RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM LE, JOHNNY TRAN 2614 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18744001 CREATING PHYSICS-BASED CONTENT HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY 2617 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 14, 2024
18644431 DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR IMAGE-TEXT CONTENTS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT RIEGLER, PATRICK F 2171 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18642423 AUGMENTED REALITY EFFECTS ON BLOCKCHAIN CRADDOCK, ROBERT J 2618 §112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18640868 REMOTE MEMORY BRIDGE AND METHOD FOR OPERATION LEE, CHUN KUAN 2181 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2024
18604023 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLIT LEARNING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM WASAFF, JOHN S. §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 13, 2024
18599116 COMPOUNDS AND THE USES AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS THEREOF KIFLE, BRUCK 1624 §112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 07, 2024
18598883 DISENTANGLED RECURRENT REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR VIDEO GENERATION ROZ, MARK 2675 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2024
18588735 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DELIVERY COST ESTIMATION PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18392214 MULTI-PATH ARCHITECTURE FOR HARDWARE OFFLOADING PATEL, HITESHKUMAR R 2400 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18572903 INSTRUMENT CHANG, THOMAS ZHU §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18568734 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT DAVIS, CHENEA 2421 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 08, 2023
18567695 EFFECT PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE VU, KHOA 2611 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2023
18529541 GENERATING VIDEOS USING A CENTRALIZED SYSTEM ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 2661 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2023
18520290 GENERATING PROTEIN SEQUENCES USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2023
18506723 METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CAPTURING INTERFACE SUPPORTING EFFECT PREVIEW KHAN, USMAN A 2637 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18463389 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RECOMMENDING INFORMATION DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 2168 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 08, 2023
18277857 LYRIC FILE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J 2657 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 18, 2023
18252559 DATA PROTECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, MEDIUM AND DEVICE TRAN, QUOC A 2145 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18056001 WEB AUTHENTICATION FOR NATIVE APPLICATION OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K 2495 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 16, 2022
17985788 DIVERSIFYING RECOMMENDATIONS BY IMPROVING EMBEDDING GENERATION OF A GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK MODEL MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Nov 11, 2022
18053851 AUTOMATIC DATA GENERATION RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17874817 Partitioning Information In Neural Network-Based Video Coding BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2022
17745323 Parameter Update of Neural Network-Based Filtering BENNETT, STUART D 2481 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 16, 2022
17737327 CIRCUIT MODULE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MATRIX MULTIPLICATION DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO 2182 §102§112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 05, 2022
17727015 ATTRIBUTE AND RATING CO-EXTRACTION SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §101§112 Final Rejection 13d Pending Apr 22, 2022
17554656 OPTIMAL KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION SCHEME YOUNG, KEVIN L. 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021
17538938 IMAGE ATTRIBUTE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT LI, RUIPING 2676 §102§103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2021
17532480 IMAGE ANNOTATING METHOD, CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING METHOD TAYLOR, MEREDITH IREENE DUPAI 2671 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 22, 2021
17477257 SUBPICTURE ENTITY GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2021
17353425 SPECTRUM ALGORITHM WITH TRAIL RENDERER CHEN, YU 2613 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2021
17348246 AUTOMATICALLY AND EFFICIENTLY GENERATING SEARCH SPACES FOR NEURAL NETWORK SACKALOSKY, COREY MATTHEW 2128 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2021
17342486 MULTI-RESOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH SPACE FOR DENSE PREDICTION TASKS TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 08, 2021
17187667 METHODS OF CODING IMAGES/VIDEOS WITH ALPHA CHANNELS DEMOSKY, PATRICK E 2486 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2021

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