Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

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

143 pending office actions • 16 clients • 137 examiners • 85 art units • 0 of 143 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP works in Computing & Software. Its profile includes 4,807 career applications and 149 pending office actions, indicating substantial historical activity and a significant current workload.

The resolved allowance rate is 93.13%, while the firm averages 3.74 office actions per allowance. The allowance rate provides an outcome measure, and the action average shows the recorded prosecution activity associated with allowances. Applicants in computing and software can use the two figures together to evaluate both historical results and the likely need for continued examination management.

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

Quality Metrics (n=4807 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.1%
Allowance Rate
n=4807
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4807
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=3698
-0.01σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3698
1073 days
Time to Allowance
n=3698
+5.6pp
Interview Lift
n=4807
36.6%
RCE Rate
n=4807
5.6%
Appeal Rate
n=4807

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

79.1%
§101 Overcome
n=1098
82.5%
§102 Overcome
n=1617
82.9%
§103 Overcome
n=2879
83.8%
§112 Overcome
n=1053

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06N
Top CPC Subclasses
55%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4807
5
Practitioners
n=4807
961.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=4807

Portfolio Summary

143
Total Pending OAs
73
Non-Final OAs
54
Final Rejections
16
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
1
Due this week
14
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (14)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (5)

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.

77
Hard (54%)
63
Medium (44%)
2
Easy (1%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only11 (8%)
§101 + other34 (24%)
§103 only53 (37%)
§102 only10 (7%)
§112 only1 (1%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)32 (22%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
1% of docket
66
Information Tech
46% of docket
12
Communications
8% of docket
38
Semiconductors
27% of docket
23
Mechanical / Eng
16% of docket
3
Business / Other
2% 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.

1,430 h
Manual time on pending OAs
286 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
500 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
12.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 2 81.5% +3.3%
HUYNH, PHUONG 2 85.8% +14.5%
PARTHASARATHY, ROHIT 2 90.2% +13.2%
KHALIFA, MOATAZ 2 90.9% +2.3%
VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 2 51.7% +38.0%
WALTON, CHESIREE A 2 31.1% +29.1%
NI, SUHAN 1 86.7% +13.9%
PARK, HYORIM NMN 1 66.7% +75.0%
LUAN, SCOTT 1 65.6% +12.2%
HUTTER, GILLIAN A 1 54.5% +46.0%

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
19045805 SOUND PRODUCTION USING SPEAKER ENCLOSURE WITH REDUCED INTERNAL PRESSURE NI, SUHAN —
18604150 WRAP AROUND METAL CONTACT PARTHASARATHY, ROHIT —
18527799 STACKED NANOSHEET DEVICES WITH INTERFACIAL LAYERS KHALIFA, MOATAZ —
18517129 EXTENDED BACKSIDE CONTACT FOR STACKED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC —
17992373 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH STRAINED NANOSHEET CHANNEL KHALIFA, MOATAZ —

Hard Cases (77)

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
18459755 MANAGEMENT OF STATE INFORMATION USING A MESSAGE QUEUE MHEIR, ZUHEIR 49d overdue
18196549 TASK-RELATED DATA PROCESSING USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 42d overdue
18131732 NAIL FILING, BUFFING AND COLOR CHANGING SYSTEM NOBREGA, TATIANA L 29d overdue
17969434 AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING WORK ENVIRONMENT-RELATED ERGONOMIC DATA LEE, PO HAN 26d overdue
18652431 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED USER INTERFACE IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM REPSHER III, JOHN T 17d overdue
18470354 STRAIN INDUCING TRENCHES FOR SOURCE/DRAIN REGIONS LIU, MIKKA H 10d overdue
18468279 DIELECTRIC AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL NANOSHEET DEVICES HRNJIC, ADIN 5d overdue
18781337 MANAGEMENT OF USAGE AND PERMISSION REQUESTS ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTS IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18493976 OFFLOADING EXECUTION OF SERVER-SIDE CODE TO CLIENT DEVICES IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE ENVIRONMENT VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 8d
19045805 SOUND PRODUCTION USING SPEAKER ENCLOSURE WITH REDUCED INTERNAL PRESSURE NI, SUHAN —
19036615 GENERATING IMAGE-BASED AVATARS USING MULTI-MODAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES PARK, HYORIM NMN —
18970106 MODULAR PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING SYSTEMS, KITS, AND METHODS LUAN, SCOTT —
18867160 PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF RUXOLITINIB HUTTER, GILLIAN A —
18653283 DEVICE DISPOSITION MANAGEMENT HUYNH, PHUONG —
18604150 WRAP AROUND METAL CONTACT PARTHASARATHY, ROHIT —
18586753 STACKED STRUCTURES WITH SPLIT DEVICE LAYERS PARTHASARATHY, ROHIT —

Client Portfolio (16 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28986
28936
28995
36245
21964
28174
21133
21233
28573
21943

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19045805 SOUND PRODUCTION USING SPEAKER ENCLOSURE WITH REDUCED INTERNAL PRESSURE Monophase LLC NI, SUHAN 2691 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 05, 2025
19036615 GENERATING IMAGE-BASED AVATARS USING MULTI-MODAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. PARK, HYORIM NMN 2615 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 24, 2025
18970106 MODULAR PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING SYSTEMS, KITS, AND METHODS Lifelens Technologies, Inc. LUAN, SCOTT 3792 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 05, 2024
18867160 PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF RUXOLITINIB Glenmark Life Sciences Limited HUTTER, GILLIAN A 1625 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 19, 2024
18930321 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED LOG INFORMATION INCORPORATION INTO CODE DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 2199 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 29, 2024
18896363 VISUALIZING PHYSIOLOGIC DATA OBTAINED FROM SUBJECTS Lifelens Technologies, Inc. AMIN, JWALANT B 2612 §102§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Sep 25, 2024
18894358 DYNAMIC CONTROL OF LIQUID-ASSISTED AIR COOLING SYSTEMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT 2115 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18893329 GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES USING MACHINE LEARNING AND GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. COFINO, JONATHAN M 2614 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2024
18891828 ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT CHASSIS WITH HYBRID COOLING COMPARTMENTS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN 2835 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2024
18804401 THERMAL ANNEALING CALIBRATION USING MICROFABRICATED RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS International Business Machines Corporation SOTO, JANICE M 2855 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2024
18799014 AUTOMATED TEST SCRIPT GENERATION WITH MACHINE LEARNING BASED MAPPING OF TEST STEPS TO CODE FUNCTIONS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. NGUYEN, PHILLIP H 2191 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 09, 2024
18794405 FUNCTION EXECUTION USING SELECTED EXECUTION MODES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 05, 2024
18781337 MANAGEMENT OF USAGE AND PERMISSION REQUESTS ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTS IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CLARE, MARK C 3628 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18754895 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM WITH PROCESSING OF DATA STRUCTURES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §101§112 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18751616 STRESSED NANOSHEET CHANNELS International Business Machines Corporation DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 2818 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 24, 2024
18747787 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENTATION GENERATION SYSTEM WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED PROCESSING OF DATA STRUCTURES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 19, 2024
18745276 INTELLIGENT CIRCUIT BREAKERS WITH SOLID-STATE AND AIR-GAP SWITCHES Amber Semiconductor, Inc. JOHNSON, TERRELL S 2176 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18743625 PROACTIVE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION BACKUP AND RESTORATION RESPONSIVE TO HARDWARE COMPONENT FAILURES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. YU, XINYUAN 2113 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18739666 REPAIR STRUCTURE FOR BONDED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE International Business Machines Corporation MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL 2892 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2024
18739898 LOW-K DIELECTRIC MATERIAL FOR INTERCONNECT STRUCTURES International Business Machines Corporation TRAN, TAN N 2812 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2024
18738673 CONTEXT RECOMMENDATION FOR RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION ARCHITECTURES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ADMASU, MAHLIET TASEW 2123 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2024
18737033 QUICK-LOADING CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEMS International Business Machines Corporation TEITELBAUM, DAVID J 3763 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18717573 METHOD FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF A PORTFOLIO Kipu Quantum GmbH POLLOCK, GREGORY A 3691 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18731542 TESTING STRUCTURE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES International Business Machines Corporation PRASAD, NEIL R 2897 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 03, 2024
18678065 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING RESPONSE ABOUT DOCUMENT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI 2653 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 30, 2024
18678143 METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING SOURCE OF SYNTHESIZED AUDIO DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y 2659 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 30, 2024
18671054 METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING FLOW FIELD PARAMETER OF OBJECT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HENN, TIMOTHY J 2639 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2024
18663521 SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE GENERATION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 14, 2024
18661052 AUTOMATED RESOURCE FORECASTING USING STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHU JOY, JORGE A 2195 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 10, 2024
18653283 DEVICE DISPOSITION MANAGEMENT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HUYNH, PHUONG 2857 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 02, 2024
18653028 REINSTANTIATING DIGITAL HUMANS WITH STORED SESSION CONTEXT IN RESPONSE TO DEVICE TRANSFER DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ZATEZALO, MISHA DAYLA 2123 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 02, 2024
18652431 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED USER INTERFACE IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. REPSHER III, JOHN T 2143 §103§112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18650713 ENHANCING WEB PAGE LOADING USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. MIRMOTAHARI, RAYAN 2141 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2024
18650517 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE MANAGEMENT IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CAO, DIEM K 2196 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2024
18647005 INTEGRATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT FRAMEWORK DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18647251 COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18644573 CODE QUALITY MANAGEMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HEBERT, THEODORE E 2199 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 24, 2024
18642366 MULTI-MODAL DATA DISTRIBUTION IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18637576 INTER-GATE CONTACTS FOR STACKED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS International Business Machines Corporation PRIDEMORE, NATHAN ANDREW 2898 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 17, 2024
18638298 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSIGNING TEST DEVICE DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. VU, TUAN A 2193 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18634572 TIME SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN CHASSIS COMPONENTS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN 2175 Other Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18634251 PREDICTING RESOURCE-RELATED VALUES USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TECHNIQUES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CAMPOS, ALFREDO 2129 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 12, 2024
18624743 SOURCE/DRAIN REGION WITH PROTECTIVE LINER LAYER International Business Machines Corporation SPRENGER, JAIME LYNN 2893 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 02, 2024
18623210 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH DIELECTRIC GATE CAP International Business Machines Corporation PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH 2893 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 01, 2024
18620542 TESTING STRUCTURES FOR MULTI-LEVEL TESTING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES International Business Machines Corporation BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE 2899 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 28, 2024
18618687 CLOUD INSTANCE SIZING AND DEPLOYMENTS USING MACHINE LEARNING DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. OSMAN, RAMY M 2457 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18616578 OBSERVABILITY-BASED CONFIGURATION REMEDIATION FOR COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS International Business Machines Corporation SHELTON, GABRIELLA KANANI 2113 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2024
18609401 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TEST GENERATION AND CONTROL DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA 2192 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 19, 2024
18608426 NANOSHEET CHANNEL LAYER OF VARYING THICKNESSES International Business Machines Corporation ANDERSON, ERIK ARTHUR 4100 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 18, 2024
18606758 Filtering Content for Automated User Interactions Using Language Models Planetart, LLC SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP's patent allowance rate?

93.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP were allowed, across 4,807 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP average before allowance?

3.74 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP have?

143 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 16 clients, before 137 examiners in 85 art units.

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