Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

D-Wave Systems Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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.

3
Hard (75%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (25%)
§101 + other1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MAIDO, MAGGIE T 1 66.0% +27.0%
WENG, PEI YONG 1 79.5% +23.1%
HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM 1 87.9% +11.2%
STARKS, WILBERT L 1 74.9% +3.7%

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
18010283 METHODS FOR FABRICATING SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM 35d overdue
17481568 DISCRETE VARIATIONAL AUTO-ENCODER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTERS STARKS, WILBERT L 17d overdue
18379799 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICES IN SOLVING CONSTRAINED QUADRATIC MODELS WITH PENALTY FACTORS WENG, PEI YONG

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18010283 METHODS FOR FABRICATING SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM 35d overdue
18536897 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMBEDDING PROBLEMS INTO AN ANALOG PROCESSOR MAIDO, MAGGIE T
18379799 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICES IN SOLVING CONSTRAINED QUADRATIC MODELS WITH PENALTY FACTORS WENG, PEI YONG

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2129 1
4100 1
2898 1
2122 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18536897 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMBEDDING PROBLEMS INTO AN ANALOG PROCESSOR MAIDO, MAGGIE T 2129 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18379799 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICES IN SOLVING CONSTRAINED QUADRATIC MODELS WITH PENALTY FACTORS WENG, PEI YONG 4100 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 13, 2023
18010283 METHODS FOR FABRICATING SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM 2898 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17481568 DISCRETE VARIATIONAL AUTO-ENCODER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTERS STARKS, WILBERT L 2122 §101 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2021

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