Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lemon Inc.

65 pending office actions • 45 art units • 63 examiners • 0 of 65 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 127 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

65
Total Pending OAs
39
Non-Final OAs
18
Final Rejections
8
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 64 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

35
Overdue
1
Due this week
15
Due this month
10
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 64 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (35)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (15)Due ≤ 60 days (10)Due later (3)

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.

3
Hard (5%)
58
Medium (89%)
3
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (5%)
§103 only54 (83%)
§102 only4 (6%)
§112 only3 (5%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
33
Information Tech
51% of docket
24
Communications
37% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

650 h
Manual time on pending OAs
130 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
227 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TSWEI, YU-JANG 2 84.3% +16.9%
DAGNEW, SABA 2 37.6% +17.7%
ORR, HENRY W 1 50.7% +37.0%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 69.1% +38.2%
ZEROUAL, OMAR 1 34.0% +40.0%
CAO, VINCENT M 1 55.3% +31.3%
DUNCAN, MARC M 1 86.9% +7.4%
WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW 1 76.8% +21.2%
PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 1 58.1% +31.7%
DHILLON, PUNEET S 1 82.1% +19.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18927845 EYE DETECTION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DHILLON, PUNEET S 54d
19232386 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A TEXT VIDEO TSWEI, YU-JANG 55d
18749493 SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED ON COLLECTING ASSET ITEMS TSWEI, YU-JANG 55d
18872262 SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURE DISTRIBUTED FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEM AND METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM DUNCAN, MARC M 60d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
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
18793602 METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR BUSINESS PROCESSING CAMPBELL, SHANNON S

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18878833 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETURN EVALUATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAO, VINCENT M 3d overdue
18711530 VIDEO GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW 2d overdue
19186392 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 14d
18863900 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SONG LIST, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 28d
18932325 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING QUANTITY OF REQUISITE RESOURCES FOR PLACEMENT OF MEDIA ITEM DAGNEW, SABA 30d
18927845 EYE DETECTION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DHILLON, PUNEET S 54d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2611 4
3621 3
2484 3
3628 2
2113 2
2616 2
2618 2
2613 2
2615 2
2658 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19232386 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A TEXT VIDEO TSWEI, YU-JANG 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 09, 2025
19220864 METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING EFFECT AND STORAGE MEDIUM ORR, HENRY W 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 28, 2025
19186392 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 22, 2025
19053359 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WORKFLOW AUTOMATION DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2025
19024468 BUSINESS INFORMATION GENERATION ZEROUAL, OMAR 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
18878833 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETURN EVALUATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAO, VINCENT M 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 24, 2024
18872262 SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURE DISTRIBUTED FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEM AND METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM DUNCAN, MARC M 2113 §112 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Dec 05, 2024
18711530 VIDEO GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW 2484 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2024
18863900 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SONG LIST, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 2161 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18932325 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING QUANTITY OF REQUISITE RESOURCES FOR PLACEMENT OF MEDIA ITEM DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18927845 EYE DETECTION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE DHILLON, PUNEET S 2488 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Oct 25, 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
18848481 VIDEO EDITING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, HAU H 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18844909 LINE EFFECT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRODUCT OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE 2618 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18820102 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM TSENG, CHARLES 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18839200 METHOD AND DEVICE OF GENERATING STICKER WU, YANNA 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 16, 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 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2024
18794588 VOICE DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2024
18793602 METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR BUSINESS PROCESSING CAMPBELL, SHANNON S 3628 §101 Final Rejection Pending Aug 02, 2024
18790211 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM VANG, MENG 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18787432 DETERMINING SPEED CHANGE RATIO FOR AUDIO SAMPLES WEAVER, ADAM MICHAEL 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18832857 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EFFECT IMAGE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, PHU K 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2024
18782126 PERSONALIZED CONTENT GRADIENT CREATION NGUYEN, DUNE NGOC 2618 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 24, 2024
18730721 VIDEO GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM JOHNSON-CALDERON, FRANK J 2425 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18725372 MUSIC GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM GODBOLD, DOUGLAS 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 28, 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 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18723804 MUSIC POINT-BASED VIDEO GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM SHIBRU, HELEN 2484 §102 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2024
18751609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA INQUIRY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT OWYANG, MICHELLE N 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18723358 PARTICLE SPECIAL EFFECT RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM LE, JOHNNY TRAN 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18749493 SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED ON COLLECTING ASSET ITEMS TSWEI, YU-JANG 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18731041 DATABASE-BASED DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM AND APPARATUS OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE 2156 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 31, 2024
18680651 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRODUCT FOR MEDIA CONTENT PROCESSING USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending May 31, 2024
18672420 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-ASSISTED POST EDITING FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending May 23, 2024
18670927 CACHE CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE HODGES, SUSAN E 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending May 22, 2024
18644431 DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR IMAGE-TEXT CONTENTS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT RIEGLER, PATRICK F 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18592339 RECONSTRUCTION OF ENTRANCE PUPILS USING IMAGE DATA FUJITA, KATRINA R 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18588735 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DELIVERY COST ESTIMATION PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18589073 VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM ZHAO, DAQUAN 2484 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18392898 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK TRAFFIC BASED ON REASONS FOR PACKET LOSS MAHMUD, GOLAM 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18572097 WEB PAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18506723 METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CAPTURING INTERFACE SUPPORTING EFFECT PREVIEW KHAN, USMAN A 2637 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18462916 INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §112 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18238780 MULTI-VIEW 3D DIFFUSION GE, JIN 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2023
18231499 MUSIC-FOCUSED PRESENTATION METHOD HOPE, DARRIN 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18355345 SERVER DEVICE PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WITH AI PROFILE PICTURE GENERATION CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18219158 PREDICTION MODEL MANAGEMENT GERGISO, TECHANE 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18343330 PUSH METHOD, PUSH APPARATUS OF VIDEO AND STORAGE MEDIUM SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL 2673 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18317818 MEMORY-EFFICIENT VOLUME DATA STRUCTURES FOR NOVEL VIEWPOINT RENDERING TRAN, JENNY NGAN 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 15, 2023
18252559 DATA PROTECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, MEDIUM AND DEVICE TRAN, QUOC A 2145 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18077410 FEDERATED LEARNING FOR MEDIA CONTENT RECOMMENDATION LU, HWEI-MIN 2142 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 08, 2022
17986644 MELODY EXTRACTION FROM POLYPHONIC SYMBOLIC MUSIC QIN, JIANCHUN 2837 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Nov 14, 2022
17985788 DIVERSIFYING RECOMMENDATIONS BY IMPROVING EMBEDDING GENERATION OF A GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK MODEL MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 2141 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Nov 11, 2022
18054592 TEXT INPUT TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGES GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 11, 2022
18053851 AUTOMATIC DATA GENERATION RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17953255 DETERMINING ONLINE CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE VIA NORMALIZING FLOWS STORK, KYLE R 2128 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2022
17874817 Partitioning Information In Neural Network-Based Video Coding BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2022
17737327 CIRCUIT MODULE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MATRIX MULTIPLICATION DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO 2182 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 05, 2022
17727015 ATTRIBUTE AND RATING CO-EXTRACTION SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §101 Final Rejection 13d Pending Apr 22, 2022
17579566 EMBEDDING OPTIMIZATION FOR A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL WU, NICHOLAS S 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jan 19, 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 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2021
17534222 METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR OBJECT ATTRIBUTE CLASSIFICATION MODEL TRAINING KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §112 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2021
17477257 SUBPICTURE ENTITY GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2021
17353425 SPECTRUM ALGORITHM WITH TRAIL RENDERER CHEN, YU 2613 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2021

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