Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Law Office Of Tong Lee

10 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (90%)
§102 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
60% of docket
2
Communications
20% of docket
2
Semiconductors
20% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LU, ZHIYU 1 49.3% +13.6%
SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 1 71.9% +35.4%
KE, PENG 1 51.4% +24.6%
DOAN, NGHIA M 1 87.0% +17.3%
DINH, PAUL 1 89.4% +4.1%
MITCHELL, JASON D 1 55.0% +31.8%
JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 1 31.3% +58.3%
KAPOOR, DEVAN 1 10.0% +16.7%
MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 1 16.7% +50.0%
MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 1 18.5% +71.4%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18315712 Learning-Based Placement of Flexible Circuit Blocks DINH, PAUL 7d
18315904 Learning-Based Macro Placement with Quality of Human Experts DOAN, NGHIA M 9d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17701745 PLATFORM-AWARE TRANSFORMER-BASED PERFORMANCE PREDICTION KAPOOR, DEVAN 2d overdue
17191296 EDGE LEARNING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2d overdue
17495489 Trust-Region Method with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Analog Design Space Exploration MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 16d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18492836 Super-Resolution System Management Using Artificial Intelligence for Gaming Applications SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 43d overdue
18178098 MULTI-LEVEL GRAPH PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING FLOW ON AI PROCESSING UNIT MITCHELL, JASON D 35d overdue
17701745 PLATFORM-AWARE TRANSFORMER-BASED PERFORMANCE PREDICTION KAPOOR, DEVAN 2d overdue
17191296 EDGE LEARNING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2d overdue
17846007 Network Space Search for Pareto-Efficient Spaces JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 6d
18315904 Learning-Based Macro Placement with Quality of Human Experts DOAN, NGHIA M 9d
17495489 Trust-Region Method with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Analog Design Space Exploration MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 16d
18605789 Frame Interpolation Using Both Optical Motion And In-Game Motion LU, ZHIYU 33d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
MEDIATEK INC. 10

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28512
26651
26691
21941
21991
21221
21261
21411
21421

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18605789 Frame Interpolation Using Both Optical Motion And In-Game Motion MediaTek Inc. LU, ZHIYU 2665 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 14, 2024
18492836 Super-Resolution System Management Using Artificial Intelligence for Gaming Applications MediaTek Inc. SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 2669 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18364742 Task Preemption in a Deep Learning Accelerator System MediaTek Inc. KE, PENG 2194 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18315904 Learning-Based Macro Placement with Quality of Human Experts MediaTek Inc. DOAN, NGHIA M 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending May 11, 2023
18315712 Learning-Based Placement of Flexible Circuit Blocks MediaTek Inc. DINH, PAUL 2851 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 11, 2023
18178098 MULTI-LEVEL GRAPH PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING FLOW ON AI PROCESSING UNIT MediaTek Inc. MITCHELL, JASON D 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
17846007 Network Space Search for Pareto-Efficient Spaces MediaTek Inc. JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 2122 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jun 22, 2022
17701745 PLATFORM-AWARE TRANSFORMER-BASED PERFORMANCE PREDICTION MediaTek Inc. KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2022
17495489 Trust-Region Method with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Analog Design Space Exploration MediaTek Inc. MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 2141 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Oct 06, 2021
17191296 EDGE LEARNING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD MediaTek Inc. MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2142 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2021

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