Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fermi Research Alliance LLC has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 7 actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, meaning each action is being reviewed by a different individual. These examiners are spread across 6 distinct art units, showing a low level of administrative concentration. This structure suggests that while the personnel are diverse, the technical subject matter of the 7 pending office actions is focused within a limited number of specialized groups.
FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA is the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 of the 7 pending office actions. This means that all 7 distinct examiners are currently managing exactly one action each for this company. With 6 distinct art units involved, practitioners should be prepared for varying procedural approaches across the 7 pending office actions, as almost every case is in a different unit. The involvement of 6 distinct art units requires a prosecution strategy that is sensitive to the specific internal cultures and prior art repositories of each unit.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 51.4% | +23.2% |
| HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 1 | 85.5% | +11.9% |
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 90.0% | +12.5% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 81.9% | +11.8% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.3% | +18.8% |
| COOK, BRIAN S | 1 | 62.2% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912327 | VACUUM BELLOWS INTEGRITY VALIDATION TOOL | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN | COOK, BRIAN S | 66d overdue |
| 18811043 | DAMAGED ACCELERATOR COOLING | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
| 18737049 | Gantry for Therapy Using Fast Neurons and Associated Systems and Methods | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| 18650902 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN | COOK, BRIAN S | 66d overdue |
| 18965986 | FLUID DISPENSING SYSTEM | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — |
| 18912327 | VACUUM BELLOWS INTEGRITY VALIDATION TOOL | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
| 18811043 | DAMAGED ACCELERATOR COOLING | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
| 18737049 | Gantry for Therapy Using Fast Neurons and Associated Systems and Methods | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| 18650902 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18965986 | FLUID DISPENSING SYSTEM | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18912327 | VACUUM BELLOWS INTEGRITY VALIDATION TOOL | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18811043 | DAMAGED ACCELERATOR COOLING | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18737049 | Gantry for Therapy Using Fast Neurons and Associated Systems and Methods | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18650902 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 17950594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN | COOK, BRIAN S | 2187 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFermi Research Alliance LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Sarah Akyaa Fordjour has the most, with 1 of Fermi Research Alliance LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
