Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
ColdQuanta Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is reviewed by a different official. The portfolio's activity is split between 2 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical focuses within their semiconductor and optics filings. This distribution across 2 distinct art units requires the applicant to address different technical standards while resolving these 5 pending office actions. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate the varying procedural norms of the 2 distinct art units involved.
The busiest examiner, WANG, JING, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners for the 5 total pending actions, the workload is perfectly distributed among different officials. This structure ensures that each of the 5 pending office actions receives an independent evaluation from a unique examiner. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate the technical variety presented by the 2 distinct art units and the individual styles of the 5 distinct examiners. The 5 pending office actions reflect a strategic effort to secure patents across different segments of the optics and circuits sector. This decentralized structure provides the company with multiple independent perspectives on its innovations across the different technical divisions identified in the data.
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 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 1 | 68.1% | +11.6% |
| LU, HWEI-MIN | 1 | 63.3% | +40.2% |
| KEATON, SHERROD L | 1 | 53.3% | +35.7% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822945 | DETERMINING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE CONTROL FOR MATTER-WAVE INTERFEROMETRY | WANG, JING | — |
| 18593276 | QUANTUM CONSTRAINED HAMILTONIAN OPTIMIZATION | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — |
| 18391190 | QUANTUM-HARDENED POWER GRID | LU, HWEI-MIN | — |
| 18520952 | MANAGING PROCESSING OF STATES OF SEQUENCES OF DATA | KEATON, SHERROD L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085501 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE SEALS FOR A COMPACT VACUUM CELL | STOFFA, WYATT A | 5d |
| 18593276 | QUANTUM CONSTRAINED HAMILTONIAN OPTIMIZATION | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — |
| 18391190 | QUANTUM-HARDENED POWER GRID | LU, HWEI-MIN | — |
| 18520952 | MANAGING PROCESSING OF STATES OF SEQUENCES OF DATA | KEATON, SHERROD L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18822945 | DETERMINING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE CONTROL FOR MATTER-WAVE INTERFEROMETRY | WANG, JING | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18593276 | QUANTUM CONSTRAINED HAMILTONIAN OPTIMIZATION | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18391190 | QUANTUM-HARDENED POWER GRID | LU, HWEI-MIN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18520952 | MANAGING PROCESSING OF STATES OF SEQUENCES OF DATA | KEATON, SHERROD L | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18085501 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE SEALS FOR A COMPACT VACUUM CELL | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
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