Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Paradice And Li LLP (Synaptics)

8 pending office actions • 2 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=811 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

97.8%
Allowance Rate
n=811
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=811
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=709
-0.05σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=709
1061 days
Time to Allowance
n=709
-3.8pp
Interview Lift
n=811
27.9%
RCE Rate
n=811
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=811

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=18 (min 20)
91.1%
§102 Overcome
n=101
92.3%
§103 Overcome
n=443
100.0%
§112 Overcome
n=58

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04N, G06T
Top CPC Subclasses
36%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=811
0
Practitioners
n=811
Apps / Practitioner
n=811 (min 20)

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
50% of docket
4
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA 1
LEMIEUX, IAN L 1 86.8% +8.9%
COBY, FRANTZ 1 90.5% +5.2%
BALI, VIKKRAM 1 81.4% +11.8%
HASHEM, LISA 1 74.6% +12.3%
HUYNH, KIM T 1 82.3% +7.3%
STREGE, JOHN B 1 86.9% +13.9%
BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 1 51.7% +37.1%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18407191 NETWORK-AGNOSTIC REGION OF INTEREST (ROI) INFERENCING BALI, VIKKRAM 23d overdue
18447534 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CONTROLLER HUYNH, KIM T 4d overdue
18634316 CONTENT-SPECIFIC FIDELITY METRICS FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION BASED ON SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODELS LEMIEUX, IAN L
18597471 LOW BANDWIDTH LISTEN FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS COBY, FRANTZ
18344064 OBJECT DETECTION NETWORKS FOR DISTANT OBJECT DETECTION IN MEMORY-CONSTRAINED DEVICES STREGE, JOHN B

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18407191 NETWORK-AGNOSTIC REGION OF INTEREST (ROI) INFERENCING BALI, VIKKRAM 23d overdue
17936321 RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 55d
18460882 CONFERENCE CALL AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES THAT PARTICIPATE IN A CONFERENCE CALL HASHEM, LISA
18344064 OBJECT DETECTION NETWORKS FOR DISTANT OBJECT DETECTION IN MEMORY-CONSTRAINED DEVICES STREGE, JOHN B

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Synaptics Incorporated 7
Synaptics 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26692
21921
24591
26631
26921
21841
21241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18759248 SOFTWARE UPDATES VIA RANGE EXTENDER Synaptics Incorporated NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA 2192 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18634316 CONTENT-SPECIFIC FIDELITY METRICS FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION BASED ON SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODELS Synaptics Incorporated LEMIEUX, IAN L 2669 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 12, 2024
18597471 LOW BANDWIDTH LISTEN FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Synaptics Incorporated COBY, FRANTZ 2459 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2024
18407191 NETWORK-AGNOSTIC REGION OF INTEREST (ROI) INFERENCING Synaptics Incorporated BALI, VIKKRAM 2663 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18460882 CONFERENCE CALL AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES THAT PARTICIPATE IN A CONFERENCE CALL DSP GROUP LTD. HASHEM, LISA 2692 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2023
18447534 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CONTROLLER Synaptics Incorporated HUYNH, KIM T 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2023
18344064 OBJECT DETECTION NETWORKS FOR DISTANT OBJECT DETECTION IN MEMORY-CONSTRAINED DEVICES Synaptics Incorporated STREGE, JOHN B 2669 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 29, 2023
17936321 RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK Synaptics Incorporated BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Sep 28, 2022

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