Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elemental Scientific Inc. currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a relatively broad spread of examination oversight, with nearly every pending matter being handled by a different examiner. The presence of multiple art units suggests that while the portfolio is centered in semiconductors, it touches upon several different technical specializations within the USPTO's organizational structure.
FITZGERALD, JOHN P is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the count of examiners matches the 6 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed. The presence of 5 distinct art units requires practitioners to adapt to various examination styles and unit-specific practices. This level of diversification in the prosecution process requires a flexible strategy to address the unique requirements of each examiner within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +1.9% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.3% |
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.5% | +36.7% |
| GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 80.3% | +24.1% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.3% | +22.3% |
| THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 1 | 61.2% | +51.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205131 | AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 17d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436198 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| 18480880 | AUTOSAMPLER SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LUMEN PROBE | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205131 | AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 17d overdue |
| 17973947 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CHEMICAL SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH SAFE ISOLATION OF SAMPLE VESSEL | THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 9d |
| 18436198 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| 18480880 | AUTOSAMPLER SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LUMEN PROBE | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 18137559 | MULTI DATA PROCESS SWITCHING FOR NANOPARTICLE BASELINE AND DETECTION THRESHOLD DETERMINATION | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944502 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 2855 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18436198 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18480880 | AUTOSAMPLER SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LUMEN PROBE | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18205131 | AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18137559 | MULTI DATA PROCESS SWITCHING FOR NANOPARTICLE BASELINE AND DETECTION THRESHOLD DETERMINATION | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17973947 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CHEMICAL SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH SAFE ISOLATION OF SAMPLE VESSEL | THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialElemental Scientific Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
John P Fitzgerald has the most, with 1 of Elemental Scientific Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
