Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lexmark International Inc. is currently managing 9 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 9 distinct examiners, which means that every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a focused technical scope for the company's intellectual property.
GRAINGER, QUANA M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 of the pending office actions. Since there are 9 pending office actions and 9 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, and no single examiner has a dominant role. The 3 distinct art units show that the company's 9 pending office actions are concentrated in a few specialized areas.
The 9 distinct examiners working in 3 distinct art units provide Lexmark International Inc. with a variety of feedback from the patent office. Because GRAINGER, QUANA M only manages 1 pending office action, her influence is limited to a single case. Practitioners should monitor the 3 distinct art units to identify broader trends in how the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area is being examined.
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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAINGER, QUANA M | 1 | 88.8% | -3.6% |
| OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | 1 | 66.4% | +29.5% |
| AYDIN, SEVAN A | 1 | 80.1% | +4.5% |
| MILIA, MARK R | 1 | 58.9% | +22.2% |
| LAM, ANDREW H | 1 | 84.4% | +7.1% |
| MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | 1 | 84.1% | +13.6% |
| LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 1 | 69.4% | +16.9% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.7% | +10.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19181436 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC CONTROL IN IMAGING DEVICES | GRAINGER, QUANA M | — |
| 19036195 | AIR DUCT FOR AN ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING DEVICE | AYDIN, SEVAN A | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 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 | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19036195 | AIR DUCT FOR AN ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING DEVICE | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18924123 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTIVELY PREVENTING OPERATION OF A COMPONENT | MILIA, MARK R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18898471 | CHIP AND SUPPLY ITEM FOR IMAGING DEVICE, INCLUDING COMMUNICATION | LAM, ANDREW H | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18811040 | METHODS FOR UPDATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MORSHED, HOSSAIN M | — | §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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