Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Paradice and Li, LLP

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

19 pending office actions • 5 clients • 17 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Paradice and Li LLP operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with 816 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 97.82 percent.

The firm currently manages 13 pending office actions and averages 3.29 office actions per allowance. This average of 3.29 reflects the typical level of engagement required to reach an allowance for its 816 career applications.

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

Quality Metrics (n=382 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.7%
Allowance Rate
n=382
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=382
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=209
-0.43σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=209
949 days
Time to Allowance
n=209
+4.2pp
Interview Lift
n=382
27.6%
RCE Rate
n=382
3.0%
Appeal Rate
n=382

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

69.2%
§101 Overcome
n=26
76.2%
§102 Overcome
n=80
75.0%
§103 Overcome
n=136
81.8%
§112 Overcome
n=77

Specialization & Scale

G01N, G01B, G03F
Top CPC Subclasses
36%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=382
6
Practitioners
n=382
63.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=382

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

11
Hard (58%)
7
Medium (37%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (16%)
§103 only6 (32%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (42%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
21% of docket
2
Communications
11% of docket
4
Semiconductors
21% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% of docket
8
Business / Other
42% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 3 63.4% +9.3%
LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA 1 92.7% +7.9%
YEN, SYLING 1 75.0% +27.8%
NGUYEN, LOAN T 1 64.6% +23.7%
HUYNH, KIM T 1 82.6% +7.2%
KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 1 78.0% +20.0%
HANEY, NOAH JAMES 1 79.0% +31.7%
KRASNIC, BERNARD 1 77.7% +57.0%
GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 1 81.2% +15.0%
CHANG, HANWAY 1 86.1% +7.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19350480 LEVERAGING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) FOR SEMANTICALLY CHUNKING CONTENT LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA —

Hard Cases (11)

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
18522038 STAGE ACTUATOR PARTICLE SHIELD BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES 46d
19347363 SEARCHING VECTOR EMBEDDINGS BASED ON CONTEXT RADIUS YEN, SYLING —
19214004 DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSING PIPELINE NGUYEN, LOAN T —
19208410 MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE HUYNH, KIM T —
19071685 VARIABLE WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH —
18991234 METROLOGY DEVICE NORMALIZATION CHANNEL HANEY, NOAH JAMES —
18851340 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CHARACTERIZATION OF A SAMPLE USING MULTI-WAVELENGTH LASER ACOUSTICS GRAVES, TIMOTHY P —
18780251 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RAPID AND AUTONOMOUS DETECTION OF AEROSOL PARTICLES CHANG, HANWAY —

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
19347363 SEARCHING VECTOR EMBEDDINGS BASED ON CONTEXT RADIUS YEN, SYLING —
19214004 DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSING PIPELINE NGUYEN, LOAN T —
19071685 VARIABLE WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH —
18991234 METROLOGY DEVICE NORMALIZATION CHANNEL HANEY, NOAH JAMES —
18932232 JPEG CLASSIFIER KRASNIC, BERNARD —
18851340 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CHARACTERIZATION OF A SAMPLE USING MULTI-WAVELENGTH LASER ACOUSTICS GRAVES, TIMOTHY P —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28813
21662
28771
26261
24691
37261
26541
21241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19350480 LEVERAGING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) FOR SEMANTICALLY CHUNKING CONTENT View Systems, Inc. LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA 2166 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 06, 2025
19347363 SEARCHING VECTOR EMBEDDINGS BASED ON CONTEXT RADIUS View Systems, Inc. YEN, SYLING 2166 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 01, 2025
19214004 DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSING PIPELINE View Systems, Inc. NGUYEN, LOAN T §101§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 20, 2025
19208410 MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE Synaptics Incorporated HUYNH, KIM T §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 14, 2025
19071685 VARIABLE WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY Onto Innovation Inc. KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 05, 2025
18991234 METROLOGY DEVICE NORMALIZATION CHANNEL Onto Innovation Inc. HANEY, NOAH JAMES 2877 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18932232 JPEG CLASSIFIER DSP GROUP LTD. KRASNIC, BERNARD §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2024
18851340 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CHARACTERIZATION OF A SAMPLE USING MULTI-WAVELENGTH LASER ACOUSTICS Onto Innovation Inc. GRAVES, TIMOTHY P §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18780251 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RAPID AND AUTONOMOUS DETECTION OF AEROSOL PARTICLES Zeteo Tech, Inc. CHANG, HANWAY §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2024
18739155 MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR MOBILE DEVICES Synaptics Incorporated KIYABU, KARIN A 2626 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18674631 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES Zeteo Tech, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 24, 2024
18653437 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES Zeteo Tech, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 02, 2024
18642553 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES WITHOUT USING COMPLEX ORGANIC MALDI MATRICES Zeteo Tech, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18611195 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR METROLOGY DATA ANALYSIS Onto Innovation Inc. LE, HUNG VAN §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2024
18397787 REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES Synaptics Incorporated VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T 2469 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2023
18522038 STAGE ACTUATOR PARTICLE SHIELD Onto Innovation Inc. BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES 3726 §102§103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18339973 MULTIPLE SOURCES OF SIGNALS FOR HYBRID METROLOGY USING PHYSICAL MODELING AND MACHINE LEARNING Onto Innovation Inc. COTHRAN, BERNARD E §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 22, 2023
18310955 AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL BEAMFORMING BASED ON PERSONAL VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD) Synaptics Incorporated MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 02, 2023
17936321 RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK Synaptics Incorporated BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Sep 28, 2022

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