Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lynch LLP focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, having managed 183 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 74.83 percent, indicating a majority of its resolved cases result in a patent.
The firm averages 2.58 office actions per allowance, which shows the level of examiner interaction needed to reach an allowance. Currently, the firm has 4 pending office actions, representing a segment of its 183 career applications.
The 74.83 percent allowance rate provides a baseline for success in the semiconductor and optics fields. With 4 pending office actions, the firm is currently managing a set of active applications. The 2.58 average office actions per allowance helps practitioners set expectations for the prosecution process in these technical areas and evaluate the firm's performance.
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% | +27.6% |
| MAUPIN, HUGH H | 1 | 87.4% | +6.4% |
| JOHNSON, RASHAD H | 1 | 80.7% | +12.7% |
| KANG, IRENE S | 1 | 16.4% | +26.2% |
| VOGT, JACOB BUI | 1 | 44.4% | +85.0% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | §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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