Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

IonQ, Inc.

7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§112 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
86% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2 65.5% +23.4%
STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 1 55.2% +26.1%
LEI, JIE 1 72.6% +16.7%
STOFFA, WYATT A 1 79.9% +22.4%
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 1 64.2% +10.7%
DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 1 65.4% +38.6%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17865116 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MODULATING LIGHTS SOURCES SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 80d overdue
17866198 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LEAKAGE LIGHT SUPPRESSION SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 50d overdue
18457899 COMPACT GONIOMETER MOUNT LEI, JIE 43d overdue
18435368 MULTI-APERTURE LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW RAMAN SYSTEM STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 4d overdue
18339809 ELECTRICAL ISOLATION OF DEVICES OPERATING AT CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES STOFFA, WYATT A 20d
18145701 VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT FOR CRYOGENIC INTERFEROMETRIC STABILIZATION DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 27d
18148052 SIDE-BAND COOLING CONFIGURATION FOR TRAPPED IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 4
2881 2
2144 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18435368 MULTI-APERTURE LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW RAMAN SYSTEM STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18457899 COMPACT GONIOMETER MOUNT LEI, JIE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18339809 ELECTRICAL ISOLATION OF DEVICES OPERATING AT CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18148052 SIDE-BAND COOLING CONFIGURATION FOR TRAPPED IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §112 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 29, 2022
18145701 VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT FOR CRYOGENIC INTERFEROMETRIC STABILIZATION DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 22, 2022
17866198 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LEAKAGE LIGHT SUPPRESSION SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
17865116 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MODULATING LIGHTS SOURCES SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022

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