Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Kaitlyn Renee Lau, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as LAU, KAITLYN RENEE

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2148 2159 4100

This examiner grants 60% of resolved cases

Analysis

LAU, KAITLYN RENEE is assigned to Tech Center 4100 and art unit 2148. The profile includes 10 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 60.0%. The median time to allowance is 1453 days. Interviews correspond to a 66.7% lift in the allowance rate. The limited case volume makes the figures directional, but the interview measure supports careful consideration of direct examiner engagement.

The listed companies are Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Google LLC, and Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. The listed firms are Harrity & Harrity, LLP, VENABLE LLP, and BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP. These appearances can help practitioners identify counsel with experience in the docket and review related prosecution histories. Strategy should remain grounded in the claims, cited art, and procedural posture of the individual application.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

60.0%
Allow Rate
At TC average
47
Total Applications
+66.7%
Interview Lift
1453
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 10 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

31.1%
§101 Eligibility
14.6%
§102 Novelty
30.7%
§103 Obviousness
22.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17908308 SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION IN FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18429821 HETEROGENEOUS PRODUCT AUTOENCODERS FOR CHANNEL-ADAPTIVE NEURAL CODES OF LARGE DIMENSIONS Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18355619 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18405514 OBJECTION DETECTION ENCODER TRAINING USING FOUNDATION MODELS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
19358980 ATTENTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH CONDITIONAL COMPUTATION Non-Final OA Google LLC
18173985 Complementary Prompting For Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning Non-Final OA Google LLC
18009841 ATTENTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH CONDITIONAL COMPUTATION Non-Final OA Google LLC
17575415 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPLEMENT A RANDOM FOREST Non-Final OA General Electric Company
18038211 PROCESSING METHOD, PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT. Inc.
18380155 Memory-Efficient Execution of a Machine-Trained Model using Sparsification Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18046013 SPATIO-TEMPORAL GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK FOR TIME SERIES PREDICTION Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18080569 SERVING DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE DEEP LEARNING (DL) MODELS IN SERVERLESS COMPUTING Non-Final OA Meta Platforms, Inc.
18443568 LEARNING-BASED QUANTUM EXPERIMENTAL SETUP SELECTION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17380738 CLASSIFICATION OF MOUSE DYNAMICS DATA USING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR CATEGORY MAPPING Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17497507 NEURAL NETWORK DATA REPLACEMENT Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18066005 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR INTEGRITY OPERATING WINDOW OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
18098397 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH CLIENT APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA FMR LLC

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Kaitlyn Renee Lau's allowance rate?

60.0% of resolved applications examined by Kaitlyn Renee Lau were allowed (10 resolved cases), compared with 75.7% across Art Unit 2148 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Kaitlyn Renee Lau?

This examiner's interview lift is +66.7 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Kaitlyn Renee Lau take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Kaitlyn Renee Lau took 1,453 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Kaitlyn Renee Lau work in?

Kaitlyn Renee Lau examines applications in Art Unit 2148 in Tech Center 4100.

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