Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ionq Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio reaches 11 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter has a separate examiner while some art-unit overlap remains. This structure calls for coordinated docket oversight with application-specific technical and claim analysis.
DULKA, JOHN P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries more than that stated assignment, so prosecution attention is distributed across the examiner group rather than centered on one recurring contact.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 3 (27%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DULKA, JOHN P | 1 | 83.8% | +12.3% |
| PAK, SUNG H | 1 | 87.8% | +11.4% |
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | 80.0% | +25.0% |
| SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | 1 | 50.0% | +25.7% |
| MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 1 | 56.7% | +7.7% |
| MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | 1 | 27.6% | +47.6% |
| CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 1 | 56.2% | +27.3% |
| MAPAR, BIJAN | 1 | 67.7% | +27.9% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.1% | +9.5% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.3% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897992 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SWITCHABLE FIBER-BASED ION ADDRESSING SCHEME | PAK, SUNG H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18145701 | VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT FOR CRYOGENIC INTERFEROMETRIC STABILIZATION | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 27d |
| 18148052 | SIDE-BAND COOLING CONFIGURATION FOR TRAPPED IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 28d |
| 18911018 | MODE-MATCHING COLLECTED ION FLUORESCENCE TO A SINGLE MODE FIBER WITH INTERCHANGEABLE IMAGING | DULKA, JOHN P | — |
| 18663872 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR STABILIZATION OF MOTIONAL MODES THROUGH STRAY ELECTRIC FIELD COMPENSATION | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18423208 | SOLVING INEQUALITY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ON HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SYSTEM | SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | — |
| 18478809 | MAINTENANCE OF ESTABLISHED, PAIRWISE QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT BUFFERS FOR EFFICIENT QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION | MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | — |
| 18478794 | MODULAR QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM COMPUTATION VIA QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | — |
| 18447792 | ENHANCING THE ELECTRON PAIR APPROXIMATION WITH MEASUREMENTS FOR THE VARIATIONAL QUANTUM EIGENSOLVER | MAPAR, BIJAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911018 | MODE-MATCHING COLLECTED ION FLUORESCENCE TO A SINGLE MODE FIBER WITH INTERCHANGEABLE IMAGING | DULKA, JOHN P | — |
| 18897992 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SWITCHABLE FIBER-BASED ION ADDRESSING SCHEME | PAK, SUNG H | — |
| 18663872 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR STABILIZATION OF MOTIONAL MODES THROUGH STRAY ELECTRIC FIELD COMPENSATION | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18423208 | SOLVING INEQUALITY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ON HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SYSTEM | SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | — |
| 18478809 | MAINTENANCE OF ESTABLISHED, PAIRWISE QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT BUFFERS FOR EFFICIENT QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION | MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | — |
| 18478794 | MODULAR QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM COMPUTATION VIA QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | — |
| 18447792 | ENHANCING THE ELECTRON PAIR APPROXIMATION WITH MEASUREMENTS FOR THE VARIATIONAL QUANTUM EIGENSOLVER | MAPAR, BIJAN | — |
| 18145677 | HIGH-LOAD VERTICAL CRYOGENIC NANOPOSITIONER | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 2 |
| 2144 | 2 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2122 | 1 |
| 2123 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18911018 | MODE-MATCHING COLLECTED ION FLUORESCENCE TO A SINGLE MODE FIBER WITH INTERCHANGEABLE IMAGING | DULKA, JOHN P | 2817 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18897992 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SWITCHABLE FIBER-BASED ION ADDRESSING SCHEME | PAK, SUNG H | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18663872 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR STABILIZATION OF MOTIONAL MODES THROUGH STRAY ELECTRIC FIELD COMPENSATION | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18423208 | SOLVING INEQUALITY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ON HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SYSTEM | SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | 2122 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18378938 | SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ON HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SYSTEM | MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 2123 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18478809 | MAINTENANCE OF ESTABLISHED, PAIRWISE QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT BUFFERS FOR EFFICIENT QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION | MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN | 2141 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18478794 | MODULAR QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM COMPUTATION VIA QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 2144 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18447792 | ENHANCING THE ELECTRON PAIR APPROXIMATION WITH MEASUREMENTS FOR THE VARIATIONAL QUANTUM EIGENSOLVER | MAPAR, BIJAN | 2189 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18148052 | SIDE-BAND COOLING CONFIGURATION FOR TRAPPED IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 18145677 | HIGH-LOAD VERTICAL CRYOGENIC NANOPOSITIONER | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 18145701 | VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT FOR CRYOGENIC INTERFEROMETRIC STABILIZATION | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 2144 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialIonq Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 11 examiners.
John P Dulka has the most, with 1 of Ionq Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
