Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lexmark International Inc. currently has 9 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, indicating that the company's pending applications are spread through several specialized technical groups. The prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners, which means that every single pending action is being reviewed by a different individual at the USPTO. This ratio between actions and examiners suggests a lack of examiner-level concentration.
GRAINGER, QUANA M is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This workload is consistent across the entire portfolio, as each of the examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the 9 total pending actions. The ratio of 7 art units to the pending actions suggests that some art units are handling more than one application. This decentralized prosecution environment requires the company to manage different examiner perspectives while adhering to the standards of the specialized units. Because no single examiner handles more than one of the actions, practitioners must develop unique approaches for every matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAINGER, QUANA M | 1 | 88.9% | -3.7% |
| OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | 1 | 66.4% | +29.5% |
| MILIA, MARK R | 1 | 59.0% | +22.2% |
| LAM, ANDREW H | 1 | 84.5% | +7.0% |
| MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | 1 | 84.2% | +13.5% |
| LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 1 | 69.4% | +16.7% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.8% | +10.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19181436 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC CONTROL IN IMAGING DEVICES | GRAINGER, QUANA M | — |
| 18898471 | CHIP AND SUPPLY ITEM FOR IMAGING DEVICE, INCLUDING COMMUNICATION | LAM, ANDREW H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116002 | THICK FILM PRINTED HEAT SPREADER FOR LOW THERMAL MASS HEATING SOLUTIONS | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 43d overdue |
| 19061212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF A COMPONENT | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | — |
| 18924123 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTIVELY PREVENTING OPERATION OF A COMPONENT | MILIA, MARK R | — |
| 18811040 | METHODS FOR UPDATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116002 | THICK FILM PRINTED HEAT SPREADER FOR LOW THERMAL MASS HEATING SOLUTIONS | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 43d overdue |
| 18593117 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF CLOCK TAMPERING ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 2d overdue |
| 19061212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF A COMPONENT | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | — |
| 18924123 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTIVELY PREVENTING OPERATION OF A COMPONENT | MILIA, MARK R | — |
| 18811040 | METHODS FOR UPDATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | — |
| 18203209 | COOKING DEVICE HAVING A MODULAR CERAMIC HEATER | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19181436 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC CONTROL IN IMAGING DEVICES | GRAINGER, QUANA M | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19061212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF A COMPONENT | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | 3629 | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18924123 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTIVELY PREVENTING OPERATION OF A COMPONENT | MILIA, MARK R | 2681 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18898471 | CHIP AND SUPPLY ITEM FOR IMAGING DEVICE, INCLUDING COMMUNICATION | LAM, ANDREW H | 2682 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18811040 | METHODS FOR UPDATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | 2191 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18593117 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF CLOCK TAMPERING ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 2437 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18203209 | COOKING DEVICE HAVING A MODULAR CERAMIC HEATER | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18116002 | THICK FILM PRINTED HEAT SPREADER FOR LOW THERMAL MASS HEATING SOLUTIONS | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLexmark International Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Quana M Grainger has the most, with 1 of Lexmark International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
