Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
106 pending office actions • 75 art units • 99 examiners • 0 of 106 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 152 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lemon Inc. maintains a large portfolio in the Communications technology area with 112 pending office actions. These matters are spread across 60 distinct art units, demonstrating a broad range of communication-related innovations. The prosecution involves 105 distinct examiners, which requires managing relationships with a vast number of individuals at the patent office. This high level of fragmentation across 60 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings touch on many different technical specialties, from networking to wireless protocols.
Yu-Jang Tswei is the busiest examiner for this company, currently holding 3 pending office actions. Despite the high total of 112 pending office actions, the workload is decentralized, as evidenced by the 105 distinct examiners involved. This decentralization means that no single examiner has a significant impact on the overall portfolio, but it also presents a challenge in maintaining consistency across many different cases. For a practitioner, the presence of 60 distinct art units means that the company must be prepared for a variety of examination styles and internal office policies. With 112 pending office actions, the portfolio represents a major and diverse effort within the communications sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 8 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 21 (20%) |
| §103 only | 50 (47%) |
| §102 only | 9 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 15 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 3 | 83.7% | +15.9% |
| ORR, HENRY W | 2 | 50.5% | +37.3% |
| OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CAO, VINCENT M | 2 | 55.3% | +31.5% |
| WOO, STELLA L | 2 | 79.8% | +13.3% |
| MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | 2 | 84.1% | +13.6% |
| SYED, FARHAN M | 1 | 75.1% | +23.1% |
| MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 1 | 46.2% | +34.0% |
| PENG, HUAWEN A | 1 | 82.3% | +20.4% |
| RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 1 | 68.6% | +37.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844909 | LINE EFFECT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRODUCT | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 21d |
| 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 |
| 19142924 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING | PENG, HUAWEN A | — |
| 18527016 | IMPLEMENTING DIALOG-BASED IMAGE EDITING | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252559 | DATA PROTECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, MEDIUM AND DEVICE | TRAN, QUOC A | 30d 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 |
| 19186392 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 14d |
| 18672420 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-ASSISTED POST EDITING | FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J | 43d |
| 19261493 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878833 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETURN EVALUATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CAO, VINCENT M | 3d overdue |
| 19186392 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 14d |
| 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 |
| 19220864 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING EFFECT AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ORR, HENRY W | 62d |
| 19161213 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA QUERY | SYED, FARHAN M | — |
| 19261493 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | — |
| 19142924 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING | PENG, HUAWEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 4 |
| 2611 | 3 |
| 2172 | 3 |
| 3622 | 3 |
| 2174 | 3 |
| 2178 | 3 |
| 2837 | 3 |
| 2666 | 2 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2612 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19161213 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA QUERY | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19261493 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19142924 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING | PENG, HUAWEN A | 2169 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19232386 | METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A TEXT VIDEO | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19220864 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING EFFECT AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ORR, HENRY W | 2172 | §112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19193811 | GENERATING IMAGES USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 2618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19186392 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 2163 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19072274 | ENHANCED ISSUE STACK ANALYSIS | BUTLER, SARAI E | 2114 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19053359 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WORKFLOW AUTOMATION | DAGNEW, SABA | 3621 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19102347 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR OBJECT PROCESSING BASED ON PRE-TRAINING AND TWO-PHASE DEPLOYMENT | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19101520 | RECOMMENDATION DIVERSITY EVALUATION | CAO, VINCENT M | 3622 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19100543 | TRANSLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GAY, SONIA L | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19043365 | METHOD OF TEXT TRANSLATING, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ROBERTS, SHAUN A | 2655 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19038574 | MOTION CANDIDATE DERIVATION WITH SEARCH ORDER AND CODING MODE | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19031047 | IDENTITY INDICATION APPARATUS | LEE, MICHAEL M | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19016819 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HSIEH, PING Y | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19016233 | SEMANTIC PARSING FOR SHORT TEXT | WOO, STELLA L | 2693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19013214 | IMAGE EDITING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2612 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18879621 | MODEL TRAINING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SOFRONIOU, MICHAEL MARIO | 2661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19001238 | INTERACTION METHOD, INTERACTION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SMITH, LINDSEY B | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18878431 | FOLDED OPTICAL PATH LENS, OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM AND HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE | SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18999737 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MARKING VIDEO | ORR, HENRY W | 2172 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18991305 | OPTICAL STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18990381 | VIDEO GENERATION MODEL WITH DYNAMICS ADAPTERS | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18988733 | OBJECT CONNECTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 2425 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18987292 | EFFECT EDITING | KALHORI, DAN F | 2618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18873469 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DESIRE, GREGORY M | 2676 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 2676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18974344 | TEXT GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 2674 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18949558 | INFORMATION INTERACTION | BELOUSOV, ANDREY | 2172 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18936796 | MUSIC DATA PROCESSING | WOO, STELLA L | 2693 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18860603 | DISTRIBUTED GRAPH DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | RASHID, WISSAM | 2195 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18926902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING BACKBONE NETWORK, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE | LEE, BENEDICT E | 2665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18927747 | DATA PARSING, TRANSMISSION AND DISPLAY METHODS, APPARATUSES, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18859931 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARK, HYORIM NMN | 2615 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18923549 | TEMPORALLY CONSISTENT HUMAN IMAGE ANIMATION METHOD | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 2665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18914672 | VIDEO GENERATION FOR SHORT-FORM CONTENT | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18853111 | METHOD FOR END-CLOUD COLLABORATION-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18850557 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V | 2619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18851002 | TARGET OBJECT IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, JITESH | 2612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18891729 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | CHOWDHURY, RAYEEZ R | 2174 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18886648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING DATA OF SOFTWARE OBJECT, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | O'CONNOR-EMANUEL, LAWRENCE SCOTT | 2193 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18844909 | LINE EFFECT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRODUCT | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18827521 | GENERATING IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 3629 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18821791 | IMAGE PROCESSING | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 2669 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18819980 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF TARGET SEGMENTATION | KUDO, KEN | 2671 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18818440 | METHOD FOR SHARING DATA BETWEEN CROSS-END CONTAINER AND NATIVE RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | ANYA, CHARLES E | 2194 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18817627 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING PROGRAM SERVICE LOGIC, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | 2199 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18815337 | PLUGIN CREATION AND DATA QUERY ASSOCIATED WITH DIGITAL ASSISTANT INTERACTION | MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | 2191 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLemon Inc. has 106 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 75 art units and 99 examiners.
Yu-Jang Tswei has the most, with 3 of Lemon Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.