Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lin Associates Office

8 pending office actions • 5 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 56 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUYNH, LUAT T 1 93.2% +8.5%
ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 1 33.3% +40.0%
YANG, WEI WEN 1 82.3% +10.9%
DEAN, RAYMOND S 1 70.2% +15.3%
WILSON, LEE D 1 79.9% +18.8%
SPICER, JENINE MARIE 1 50.9% +18.3%
HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE 1
MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 1 26.9% +73.3%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18613273 METHOD FOR DETECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEFECT USING TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE CONTRAST YANG, WEI WEN 31d overdue
18915466 VEHICLE TRAJECTORY RECORDING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLES WITH A SENSOR HUYNH, LUAT T 27d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17893456 METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING COMPRESSED BRAINWAVE PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 15d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18613273 METHOD FOR DETECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEFECT USING TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE CONTRAST YANG, WEI WEN 31d overdue
18498094 CASE WITH SCREW THREAD IN SEALED MANNER FOR COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT SPICER, JENINE MARIE 29d overdue
18505190 CARRYING DEVICE FOR SUBSTRATE CARRIER WILSON, LEE D 22d overdue
18827971 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCREENING NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING PROTOCOLS AND RECOMMENDING RESULTS ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 9d
17893456 METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING COMPRESSED BRAINWAVE PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 15d
18506174 HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHING EXTENDERS AND QUAD-FREQUENCY SWITCHING EXTENDERS HAVING THE SAME DEAN, RAYMOND S 46d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36671
36821
26621
26451
37231
37361
36451
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18915466 VEHICLE TRAJECTORY RECORDING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLES WITH A SENSOR Arcadyan Technology Corporation HUYNH, LUAT T 3667 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18827971 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCREENING NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING PROTOCOLS AND RECOMMENDING RESULTS Exebrain Co., Ltd. ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 3682 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18613273 METHOD FOR DETECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEFECT USING TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE CONTRAST Saultech Technology Co., Ltd. YANG, WEI WEN 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18506174 HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHING EXTENDERS AND QUAD-FREQUENCY SWITCHING EXTENDERS HAVING THE SAME Arcadyan Technology Corporation DEAN, RAYMOND S 2645 §112 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18505190 CARRYING DEVICE FOR SUBSTRATE CARRIER Group Up Industrial Co., Ltd. WILSON, LEE D 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18498094 CASE WITH SCREW THREAD IN SEALED MANNER FOR COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT Arcadyan Technology Corporation SPICER, JENINE MARIE 3736 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2023
18230334 LiDAR SYSTEM AND RESOLUSION IMPROVEMENT METHOD THEREOF Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd. HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 04, 2023
17893456 METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING COMPRESSED BRAINWAVE PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS Exebrain Co., Ltd. MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 23, 2022

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