Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Axcelis Technologies, Inc.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
67% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEN, KEATH T 1 30.3% +24.5%
TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM 1 49.1% +27.4%
LEE, NATHANIEL J. 1 63.2% +22.0%
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 1 64.2% +10.7%
MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 1 70.0% +42.9%
CHOI, JAMES J 1 66.8% +46.6%

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
19063918 LOW-TEMPERATURE VAPORIZER FOR ION IMPLANTER WITH IN-VACUUM CONTROLLED FLOW CHEN, KEATH T 132d overdue
18944039 FIXED POSITION FILAMENT LEE, NATHANIEL J. 45d overdue
18991879 LIQUID METAL ALLOY FEED MATERIALS FOR ION IMPLANTATION TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM 17d overdue
18919483 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ION BEAM PROFILING LOGIE, MICHAEL J 34d
18918276 DEPOSITION MONITOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 42d
17348031 TUNING APPARATUS FOR MINIMUM DIVERGENCE ION BEAM CHOI, JAMES J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1716 1
1718 1
2875 1
2881 1
2877 1
2878 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19063918 LOW-TEMPERATURE VAPORIZER FOR ION IMPLANTER WITH IN-VACUUM CONTROLLED FLOW CHEN, KEATH T 1716 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2025
18991879 LIQUID METAL ALLOY FEED MATERIALS FOR ION IMPLANTATION TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2024
18944039 FIXED POSITION FILAMENT LEE, NATHANIEL J. 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18919483 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ION BEAM PROFILING LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18918276 DEPOSITION MONITOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Oct 17, 2024
17348031 TUNING APPARATUS FOR MINIMUM DIVERGENCE ION BEAM CHOI, JAMES J 2878 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 15, 2021

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