Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ionq Inc. has 9 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows that while the company's work is concentrated in 4 art units, every single pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner. This high degree of examiner variety suggests that the company's prosecution strategy must be highly adaptable to individual examiner preferences within the semiconductor field.
EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN is the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. The fact that 9 distinct examiners are involved for 9 actions indicates a complete lack of examiner concentration. Practitioners must manage these 9 separate relationships across the 4 art units to ensure consistent outcomes in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated across several specialized divisions of the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.0% | +26.8% |
| SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | 1 | 50.0% | +25.7% |
| MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 1 | 56.8% | +7.7% |
| CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 1 | 56.0% | +27.6% |
| MAPAR, BIJAN | 1 | 67.5% | +28.1% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.4% | +9.3% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
| DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 1 | 65.2% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435368 | MULTI-APERTURE LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW RAMAN SYSTEM | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 4d overdue |
| 18145701 | VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT FOR CRYOGENIC INTERFEROMETRIC STABILIZATION | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 27d |
| 18148052 | SIDE-BAND COOLING CONFIGURATION FOR TRAPPED IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 28d |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435368 | MULTI-APERTURE LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW RAMAN SYSTEM | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 4d overdue |
| 18145701 | VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT FOR CRYOGENIC INTERFEROMETRIC STABILIZATION | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 27d |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18435368 | MULTI-APERTURE LARGE FIELD-OF-VIEW RAMAN SYSTEM | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18423208 | SOLVING INEQUALITY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ON HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SYSTEM | SIPPEL, MOLLY CLARKE | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18378938 | SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ON HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SYSTEM | MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | — | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 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 | — | §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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