Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
22 pending office actions • 6 art units • 15 examiners • 1 of 22 (5%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (5%) |
| §103 only | 14 (64%) |
| §102 only | 5 (23%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 4 | 79.9% | +22.4% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 4 | 64.2% | +10.7% |
| CHANG, HANWAY | 2 | 85.8% | +8.5% |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 1 | 80.9% | +12.4% |
| VANORE, DAVID A | 1 | 88.8% | +7.5% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 1 | 84.4% | +8.1% |
| OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 1 | 73.4% | +16.6% |
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | — | — |
| SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK | 1 | 57.6% | +32.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683343 | DISCRETE PEG MOLECULES AS ANALYTES FOR MS CALIBRATION AND TUNING IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MODES | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 86d overdue |
| 18247799 | High Resolution Detection to Manage Group Detection for Quantitative Analysis by MS/MS | CHANG, HANWAY | 38d overdue |
| 18569773 | Internal Fragment Reduction in Top Down ECD Analysis of Proteins | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 6d |
| 18696002 | Laser Induced Fragmentation for MRM Analysis | WANG, JING | 19d |
| 18280542 | Bifurcated Mass Spectrometer | CHANG, HANWAY | 22d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571542 | DATA STORAGE FOR TOF INSTRUMENTATION | VANORE, DAVID A | 19d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683343 | DISCRETE PEG MOLECULES AS ANALYTES FOR MS CALIBRATION AND TUNING IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MODES | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 86d overdue |
| 18258359 | DYNAMIC EJECTION DELAY TIME FOR ACOUSTIC EJECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY | STOFFA, WYATT A | 44d overdue |
| 17636745 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR THERMAL DISSOCIATION IN A MASS SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 42d overdue |
| 18685534 | Extending Operational Lifetime of a Mass Spectrometer | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2d overdue |
| 18019546 | Systems and Methods for Separating Compounds of Similar Mass by Differential Mobility Spectrometry | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 5d |
| 18016173 | Electron Activation Dissociation Reaction Device with Ion Isolation Functionality in Mass Spectrometry | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 15d |
| 17999814 | MASS ANALYSIS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 23d |
| 18569701 | AUTOMATED OPTIMIZATION OF DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY (DMS) SEPARATIONS USING ALPHA FUNCTIONS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 13 |
| 2878 | 5 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18696002 | Laser Induced Fragmentation for MRM Analysis | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18685534 | Extending Operational Lifetime of a Mass Spectrometer | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18683343 | DISCRETE PEG MOLECULES AS ANALYTES FOR MS CALIBRATION AND TUNING IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MODES | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 2884 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18571542 | DATA STORAGE FOR TOF INSTRUMENTATION | VANORE, DAVID A | 2878 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18569773 | Internal Fragment Reduction in Top Down ECD Analysis of Proteins | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18569701 | AUTOMATED OPTIMIZATION OF DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY (DMS) SEPARATIONS USING ALPHA FUNCTIONS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18560556 | Ion Mirror for Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18280542 | Bifurcated Mass Spectrometer | CHANG, HANWAY | 2878 | §102 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18548708 | CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING VIRAL SPECIES | SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK | 1671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18276609 | Method of Performing Ms/Ms of High Intensity Ion Beams Using a Bandpass Filtering Collision Cell to Enhance Mass Spectrometry Robustness | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18276172 | Mass and Kinetic Energy Ordering of Ions Prior to Orthogonal Extraction Using Dipolar DC | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18262852 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING SAMPLES FOR ANALYSIS | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18273914 | Pressure Control in Vacuum Chamber of Mass Spectrometer | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18269668 | CLINICAL LABORATORY AUTOMATION SYSTEM WITH SINGLE CALIBRATOR | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18258359 | DYNAMIC EJECTION DELAY TIME FOR ACOUSTIC EJECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18254625 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTED FLOW ANALYSIS | MASKELL, MICHAEL P | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18247799 | High Resolution Detection to Manage Group Detection for Quantitative Analysis by MS/MS | CHANG, HANWAY | 2878 | §102 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18019546 | Systems and Methods for Separating Compounds of Similar Mass by Differential Mobility Spectrometry | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18016173 | Electron Activation Dissociation Reaction Device with Ion Isolation Functionality in Mass Spectrometry | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17999814 | MASS ANALYSIS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
| 17908659 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SAMPLING DEVICE PROTECTED IN A SEPTUM PIERCING NEEDLE | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | — | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17636745 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR THERMAL DISSOCIATION IN A MASS SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 18, 2022 |
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