Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Lumen Patent Firm

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

31 pending office actions • 9 clients • 30 examiners • 24 art units • 0 of 31 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 57 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Lumen Patent Firm focuses on Chemistry & Materials and has 3,349 career applications. Its profile contains 30 pending office actions, indicating active examination work within a broad recorded portfolio.

The resolved allowance rate is 81.86%, and the average number of office actions per allowance is 2.75. The outcome rate describes the firm’s record among resolved matters, while the action average indicates that allowances generally require multiple responses. Chemical and materials applicants can use the profile to consider both historical resolution results and the ongoing prosecution effort associated with the docket.

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

Quality Metrics (n=3349 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

81.9%
Allowance Rate
n=3349
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=3349
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=1449
-0.43σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1449
1121 days
Time to Allowance
n=1449
+10.2pp
Interview Lift
n=3349
20.1%
RCE Rate
n=3349
0.7%
Appeal Rate
n=3349

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

84.6%
§101 Overcome
n=110
78.5%
§102 Overcome
n=474
80.6%
§103 Overcome
n=876
81.9%
§112 Overcome
n=548

Specialization & Scale

A61B, G01N, G01R
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=3349
3
Practitioners
n=3349
1116.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=3349

Portfolio Summary

31
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
14
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.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (8)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (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.

15
Hard (48%)
15
Medium (48%)
1
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (6%)
§103 only12 (39%)
§102 only3 (10%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)13 (42%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
26% of docket
3
Information Tech
10% of docket
1
Communications
3% of docket
7
Semiconductors
23% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
35% of docket
1
Business / Other
3% 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.

310 h
Manual time on pending OAs
62 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
108 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VETERE, ROBERT A 2 61.5% +12.8%
COOK, JONATHON 1 81.6% +17.1%
HANNETT, JAMES M 1 84.4% +0.5%
ISLA, RICHARD 1 77.1% +15.5%
AHMED, JAMIL 1 82.1% +15.1%
HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN 1 66.9% +24.8%
PATEL, REEMA 1 88.8% +6.5%
MONSUR, NASIMA 1 78.5% +26.0%
LANGHALS, RENEE C 1 58.6% +42.7%
KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH 1 — —

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
19052997 Joint metasurface optics/image processing co-design for ultra-thin computational sensors and imagers HANNETT, JAMES M —
18853322 Capacitive Charge Storage and Transport Device for Room Temperature applications PATEL, REEMA —

Hard Cases (15)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17784753 Multi-layered Electrospun Heart Valve Leaflets WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 81d overdue
18213626 Colorful Low-Emissivity Paints for Space Heating and Cooling Energy Efficiency SHUKLA, KRUPA 59d overdue
18129680 High Spatial Resolution Neuromodulation TRAN, JULIE THI 46d overdue
18200280 Fully open-air combustion deposition and rapid plasma treatment of metal oxides VETERE, ROBERT A 15d
18664023 Use of high-level requirements and system modeling tools to automatically validate/generate security configurations for distributed communications systems CHANG, TOM Y 62d
19081588 Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy using a piecewise tunable laser and hierarchical wavelength determination COOK, JONATHON —
18992718 L ight manipulation and sensing based on geometric reconfiguration of nanoscale optical systems AHMED, JAMIL —
18841579 etal catalysts in tandem with carbon-based catalysts for CO2 conversion to carbon-based molecules KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH —

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18908097 Method to achieve 24/7 carbon-free electrified fleet operations HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN 26d overdue
18200280 Fully open-air combustion deposition and rapid plasma treatment of metal oxides VETERE, ROBERT A 15d
19081588 Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy using a piecewise tunable laser and hierarchical wavelength determination COOK, JONATHON —
19048773 Flexural Patterns in Guide Plate Substrates ISLA, RICHARD —
18992718 L ight manipulation and sensing based on geometric reconfiguration of nanoscale optical systems AHMED, JAMIL —
18892532 Rapid non-Cartesian reconstruction using an implicit representation of GROG kernels MONSUR, NASIMA —
18821626 Adaptive Acoustic Imaging with Differentiable Beamforming LANGHALS, RENEE C —
18706228 Process for the Pulsed Laser Ejection of Multiple Epitaxial Structures from one Thin Film Growth VETERE, ROBERT A —

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28583
37743
28772
37912
26371
36621
28471
37971
17421
21211

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19081588 Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy using a piecewise tunable laser and hierarchical wavelength determination Picarro, Inc. COOK, JONATHON 2877 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19052997 Joint metasurface optics/image processing co-design for ultra-thin computational sensors and imagers The Broad Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University HANNETT, JAMES M 2637 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19048773 Flexural Patterns in Guide Plate Substrates Formfactors, Inc. ISLA, RICHARD 2858 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 07, 2025
18992718 L ight manipulation and sensing based on geometric reconfiguration of nanoscale optical systems The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University AHMED, JAMIL 2877 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 09, 2025
18908097 Method to achieve 24/7 carbon-free electrified fleet operations The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN 3662 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18853322 Capacitive Charge Storage and Transport Device for Room Temperature applications The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University PATEL, REEMA 2847 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 01, 2024
18892532 Rapid non-Cartesian reconstruction using an implicit representation of GROG kernels The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2024
18821626 Adaptive Acoustic Imaging with Differentiable Beamforming The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University LANGHALS, RENEE C 3797 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18841579 etal catalysts in tandem with carbon-based catalysts for CO2 conversion to carbon-based molecules The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH 1742 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 26, 2024
18838192 PERSONALIZED MACHINE LEARNING ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 2121 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 13, 2024
18836924 High efficiency utilization of heat in CO2 stripper Eig, Inc. BUSHEY, CHARLES S 1776 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 08, 2024
18789968 SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A GRAFT DEVICE WITH A THREE DIMENSIONAL COVERING Xeltis AG RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18745010 Human Gait parameter and Health Information Extraction using Floor-Mounted Geophone Sensors The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University JANG, CHRISTIAN Y 3791 §101§102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18744951 Devices, Systems and Methods for Shock Absorption The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University BOWES, STEPHEN M 3616 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18664023 Use of high-level requirements and system modeling tools to automatically validate/generate security configurations for distributed communications systems Real-Time Innovations, Inc. CHANG, TOM Y 2455 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 62d Pending May 14, 2024
18706228 Process for the Pulsed Laser Ejection of Multiple Epitaxial Structures from one Thin Film Growth The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University VETERE, ROBERT A §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2024
18634655 Roller Tap Down Technique for Probe Arrays Formfactor, Inc. PATEL, PARESH H 2858 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18285315 Polymer Liposome Hydrogel The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University KETCHAM, KAREN A 1614 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 02, 2023
18280802 Kink Resistance Tubular Graft Implants Xeltis AG NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA 3774 §102 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18275672 Shape Memory Alloy Capsule Micropump for Drug Delivery Applications The American University In Cairo PEKARSKAYA, LILYA 3746 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 03, 2023
18227826 Underwater adhesive from dynamic polymers The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University ZIMMER, MARC S 1765 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18213626 Colorful Low-Emissivity Paints for Space Heating and Cooling Energy Efficiency The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103§112 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18200280 Fully open-air combustion deposition and rapid plasma treatment of metal oxides The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University VETERE, ROBERT A 1712 §103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 22, 2023
18144090 Acoustically modulated plasmonic optical resonators The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 2872 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 05, 2023
18129680 High Spatial Resolution Neuromodulation The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University Office Of The General Counsel TRAN, JULIE THI 3791 §103§112 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18121412 Strong spin-microwave coupling for quantum technologies The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 1735 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2023
18025955 Graft Device for Endogenous Tissue Restoration in Between Two Tubular Structures Xeltis AG LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN 3774 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2023
18025888 Geometric-composition method for multi-contact resolution between multiple rigid objects The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH 2186 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 11, 2023
18084303 Hardmask to substrate pattern transfer method for Microfabrication of micro to mesoscale, high aspect ratio, multi-level, 3D Structures The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1713 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2022
17784753 Multi-layered Electrospun Heart Valve Leaflets Xeltis AG WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
16648049 Conductive Polymer Implant, combining electrical and chemical stimulation to improve neural recovery The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University PATEL, NIKETA I 3792 §103 Final Rejection 189d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2020

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Lumen Patent Firm's patent allowance rate?

81.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Lumen Patent Firm were allowed, across 3,349 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Lumen Patent Firm average before allowance?

2.75 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Lumen Patent Firm have?

31 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 9 clients, before 30 examiners in 24 art units.

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