Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

LY CORPORATION

11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

2
Hard (18%)
9
Medium (82%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (18%)
§103 only7 (64%)
§102 only2 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
36% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
64% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 1 76.5% +14.8%
ANSARI, AZAM A 1 47.6% +49.6%
VIG, NARESH 1 36.9% +43.9%
BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 1 28.7% +20.9%
HERSHLEY, MARK E 1 78.2% +18.8%
WEBB III, JAMES L 1 14.6% +23.6%
FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH 1 67.0% +28.9%
SPAR, ILANA L 1 45.3% +28.4%
CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 1 43.2% +21.0%
CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 1 69.6% +28.4%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19072794 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 49d overdue
19016992 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WEBB III, JAMES L 11d overdue
18907853 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 27d
19072405 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM VIG, NARESH 56d

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
19072794 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 49d overdue
19053208 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HERSHLEY, MARK E 32d overdue
19193655 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM ANSARI, AZAM A 28d overdue
18945380 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM SPAR, ILANA L 25d overdue
19208281 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 23d overdue
19016992 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WEBB III, JAMES L 11d overdue
18667478 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL, AND SERVER CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 12d
18907853 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3622 3
3621 2
2156 1
2164 1
3624 1
2166 1
2421 1
3695 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19208281 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 2156 §102 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending May 14, 2025
19193655 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM ANSARI, AZAM A 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2025
19072405 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM VIG, NARESH 3622 §101 Final Rejection 56d Pending Mar 06, 2025
19072794 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2025
19053208 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HERSHLEY, MARK E 2164 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2025
19016992 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WEBB III, JAMES L 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2025
18945372 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 12, 2024
18945380 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM SPAR, ILANA L 3622 §102 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18907853 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 07, 2024
18667478 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL, AND SERVER CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A 2421 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending May 17, 2024
17698674 PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND TERMINAL GREGG, MARY M 3695 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2022

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