Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 2 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 manages a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The data shows 6 pending office actions currently in progress. This level of activity suggests a moderate volume of ongoing patent prosecution for the organization's semiconductor and optical innovations.
The organization's filings are being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This ratio of one examiner per pending action indicates that no single official is handling multiple applications for the company simultaneously. The involvement of 2 distinct art units shows that the portfolio's technical scope is narrow enough to be handled by only two specialized divisions within the patent office, despite the number of examiners involved.
HOPKINS, BRANDI N is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, this busiest examiner holds no more weight than any other individual examiner involved. The prosecution strategy must therefore account for the diverse perspectives of 6 different officials, even though the work is concentrated in just 2 art units.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 1 | 85.4% | +12.1% |
| RAHLL, JERRY T | 1 | 89.8% | +8.3% |
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
| AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 1 | 84.3% | +14.7% |
| COOK, BRIAN S | 1 | 62.2% | +29.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912327 | VACUUM BELLOWS INTEGRITY VALIDATION TOOL | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
| 18244010 | Connector Interface Assembly for Enclosed Vessels and Associated Systems and Methods | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | — |
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 |
| 18843952 | QUANTUM TRANSDUCTION WITH RESONANT CAVITIES | RAHLL, JERRY T | — |
| 18811043 | DAMAGED ACCELERATOR COOLING | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN | COOK, BRIAN S | 66d overdue |
| 18912327 | VACUUM BELLOWS INTEGRITY VALIDATION TOOL | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
| 18650902 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| 18244010 | Connector Interface Assembly for Enclosed Vessels and Associated Systems and Methods | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912327 | VACUUM BELLOWS INTEGRITY VALIDATION TOOL | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18843952 | QUANTUM TRANSDUCTION WITH RESONANT CAVITIES | RAHLL, JERRY T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18811043 | DAMAGED ACCELERATOR COOLING | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18650902 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18244010 | Connector Interface Assembly for Enclosed Vessels and Associated Systems and Methods | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 2831 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 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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