Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

The Law Office Of Tong Lee

7 pending office actions • 2 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=143 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.7%
Allowance Rate
n=143
+0.42σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=143
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=94
-0.48σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=94
912 days
Time to Allowance
n=94
+2.8pp
Interview Lift
n=143
31.1%
RCE Rate
n=143
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=143

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

71.4%
§101 Overcome
n=21
80.0%
§102 Overcome
n=35
72.9%
§103 Overcome
n=85
62.5%
§112 Overcome
n=32

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06N, G06T
Top CPC Subclasses
47%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=143
0
Practitioners
n=143
Apps / Practitioner
n=143 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

4
Hard (57%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other3 (43%)
§103 only3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
71% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, ANHTAI V 1 79.1% +16.1%
SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 1 71.9% +35.4%
GU, SHAWN X 1 92.4% +15.5%
MEMULA, SURESH 1 87.7% -0.3%
MARU, MATIYAS T 1 64.7% +4.8%
DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA 1 100.0% +0.0%
KWON, JUN 1 40.3% +46.4%

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
18451775 Performance and Power Balanced Cache Partial Power Down Policy GU, SHAWN X

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18264303 ACTION MASKS FOR MACRO PLACEMENT BASED ON DENSITY MAP CALCULATIONS MEMULA, SURESH
18042439 TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING CONTRASTIVE SAMPLES FOR MACRO PLACEMENT MARU, MATIYAS T
17852484 Hardware-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA
17505422 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT FOR HYBRID AND MIXED PRECISION COMPUTING KWON, JUN

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
18492836 Super-Resolution System Management Using Artificial Intelligence for Gaming Applications SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 43d overdue
19211246 Framework Providing an Agentic Experience on Edge Devices TRAN, ANHTAI V
18451775 Performance and Power Balanced Cache Partial Power Down Policy GU, SHAWN X
17505422 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT FOR HYBRID AND MIXED PRECISION COMPUTING KWON, JUN

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
MediaTek 6
MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21681
26691
21381
21481
21251
21441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19211246 Framework Providing an Agentic Experience on Edge Devices MediaTek Inc. TRAN, ANHTAI V 2168 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 18, 2025
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
18451775 Performance and Power Balanced Cache Partial Power Down Policy MediaTek Inc. GU, SHAWN X 2138 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 17, 2023
18264303 ACTION MASKS FOR MACRO PLACEMENT BASED ON DENSITY MAP CALCULATIONS MediaTek Inc. MEMULA, SURESH §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 04, 2023
18042439 TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING CONTRASTIVE SAMPLES FOR MACRO PLACEMENT MediaTek Inc. MARU, MATIYAS T 2148 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 21, 2023
17852484 Hardware-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization MediaTek Inc. DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA 2125 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 29, 2022
17505422 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT FOR HYBRID AND MIXED PRECISION COMPUTING MediaTek Inc. KWON, JUN 2144 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 19, 2021

Managing The Law Office Of Tong Lee's Patent Prosecution?

IP Author helps law firms respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month