Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
1QB Information Technologies Inc. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, which indicates the level of examiner diversity. Despite this diversity, the actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the 5 pending office actions share common technical themes. This concentration in 2 distinct art units may allow for some strategic overlap in the Computing & Software space.
NGUYEN, CHAU T is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is a component of the workload that the company must address. With 5 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, the applicant may find that different examiners within the same unit have varying interpretations. Practitioners should coordinate their responses to the current filings to ensure that arguments made to one official do not conflict with others. The 2 distinct art units will provide the primary regulatory framework for the 1 busiest examiner pending action under NGUYEN, CHAU T.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHAU T | 1 | 67.9% | +30.5% |
| KWON, JUN | 1 | 41.0% | +47.2% |
| CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M | 1 | 84.5% | +3.9% |
| VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | 1 | 51.2% | +27.3% |
| FIGUEROA, KEVIN W | 1 | 70.2% | +20.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274442 | CRYOGENIC CLASSICAL SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITRY FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN QUANTUM COMPUTING | CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17196825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PHYSICAL QUANTITIES OF A PLURALITY OF MODELS USING A SAMPLING DEVICE | FIGUEROA, KEVIN W | 72d overdue |
| 18393292 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING AN INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEM OR A MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEM USING A CIRCUIT-BASED CONTINUOUS-VARIABLE QUANTUM OPTICAL DEVICE | KWON, JUN | — |
| 18061310 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING AN ESTIMATION OF A PROPERTY OF A QUANTUM STATE | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17196825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PHYSICAL QUANTITIES OF A PLURALITY OF MODELS USING A SAMPLING DEVICE | FIGUEROA, KEVIN W | 72d overdue |
| 18614468 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EIGENSTATE PREPARATION OF A TARGET HAMILTONIAN ON A QUANTUM COMPUTER | NGUYEN, CHAU T | — |
| 18393292 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING AN INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEM OR A MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEM USING A CIRCUIT-BASED CONTINUOUS-VARIABLE QUANTUM OPTICAL DEVICE | KWON, JUN | — |
| 18061310 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING AN ESTIMATION OF A PROPERTY OF A QUANTUM STATE | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2121 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614468 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EIGENSTATE PREPARATION OF A TARGET HAMILTONIAN ON A QUANTUM COMPUTER | NGUYEN, CHAU T | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18393292 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING AN INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEM OR A MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEM USING A CIRCUIT-BASED CONTINUOUS-VARIABLE QUANTUM OPTICAL DEVICE | KWON, JUN | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18274442 | CRYOGENIC CLASSICAL SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITRY FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN QUANTUM COMPUTING | CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18061310 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING AN ESTIMATION OF A PROPERTY OF A QUANTUM STATE | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | 2121 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
| 17196825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PHYSICAL QUANTITIES OF A PLURALITY OF MODELS USING A SAMPLING DEVICE | FIGUEROA, KEVIN W | 2124 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2021 |
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