Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lynch LLP has handled 186 career applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 74.47 percent across these filings.
Currently, the firm is processing 5 pending office actions. The average of 2.5 office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for its prosecution timeline. These figures reflect the firm's experience with 186 career applications in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LO, ANDREW S | 1 | 72.2% | +27.7% |
| MAUPIN, HUGH H | 1 | 87.5% | +6.3% |
| JOHNSON, RASHAD H | 1 | 80.8% | +12.5% |
| KANG, IRENE S | 1 | 16.4% | +26.2% |
| VOGT, JACOB BUI | 1 | 42.9% | +76.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187527 | PEST DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MAUPIN, HUGH H | — |
| 18941626 | VIRTUAL MASS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JOHNSON, RASHAD H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPTIMIZING RETIREMENT PLANS | KANG, IRENE S | 45d overdue |
| 18433280 | DOCUMENT DATA EXTRACTION AND SEARCHING | VOGT, JACOB BUI | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPTIMIZING RETIREMENT PLANS | KANG, IRENE S | 45d overdue |
| 19259849 | MULTIMODAL FITNESS BAR | LO, ANDREW S | — |
| 18941626 | VIRTUAL MASS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JOHNSON, RASHAD H | — |
| 18433280 | DOCUMENT DATA EXTRACTION AND SEARCHING | VOGT, JACOB BUI | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Castle Fit Corporation | 1 |
| Farmsense, Inc. | 1 |
| Nodal Film Systems LLC | 1 |
| Celeritas Technology Holdings, LLC | 1 |
| Base64.ai | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19259849 | MULTIMODAL FITNESS BAR | Castle Fit Corporation | LO, ANDREW S | 3784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19187527 | PEST DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Farmsense, Inc. | MAUPIN, HUGH H | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18941626 | VIRTUAL MASS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Nodal Film Systems LLC | JOHNSON, RASHAD H | 2834 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18893875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPTIMIZING RETIREMENT PLANS | Celeritas Technology Holdings, LLC | KANG, IRENE S | 3696 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18433280 | DOCUMENT DATA EXTRACTION AND SEARCHING | Base64.Ai, Inc. | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial74.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Lynch LLP were allowed, across 186 applications in USPTO records.
2.50 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.
