Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iqm Finland OY is currently managing 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, which suggests that the company must manage 7 unique sets of examiner expectations. This variety in examiners may lead to different prosecution timelines across the portfolio, as each of the 7 pending office actions is handled by a different person. The 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners means that successful strategies with 1 examiner may not necessarily translate to others.
The 7 pending actions are located within 2 distinct art units, showing a degree of technical concentration despite the number of examiners involved. KINKEAD, ARNOLD M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The focus on only 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's semiconductor innovations fall into specific technical categories at the USPTO. Managing 7 distinct examiners within just 2 distinct art units indicates that the company is dealing with a significant portion of the personnel within those specific technical groups. Practitioners should focus on the precedents of the 2 distinct art units while adapting to the 7 distinct examiners currently assigned to the portfolio.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | 1 | 91.2% | +7.8% |
| SMITH, BRIAN M | 1 | 52.5% | +36.9% |
| PERENY, TYLER J | 1 | 95.0% | +5.9% |
| HERNANDEZ, WILLIAM | 1 | 93.8% | +4.1% |
| KNAPP, JUSTIN R | 1 | 84.7% | +8.4% |
| KHAN, MASUD K | 1 | 87.5% | +6.8% |
| PATERSON, BRIGITTE A | 1 | 76.5% | +22.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716030 | Transmission line in a superconducting circuit | PERENY, TYLER J | 3d overdue |
| 18898030 | TUNABLE COUPLER WITH COUPLING EXTENSION | KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | — |
| 18710431 | QUANTUM PROCESSING UNIT, QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR READING OUT STATES OF QUBITS | HERNANDEZ, WILLIAM | — |
| 18593238 | QUANTUM PROCESSING UNIT | KHAN, MASUD K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836930 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MAKING A COUPLING TO A QUBIT | SMITH, BRIAN M | — |
| 18699086 | CHARACTERIZATION OF QUBIT ENVIRONMENT | KNAPP, JUSTIN R | — |
| 18559664 | QUANTUM-STATE READOUT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | PATERSON, BRIGITTE 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836930 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MAKING A COUPLING TO A QUBIT | SMITH, BRIAN M | — |
| 18559664 | QUANTUM-STATE READOUT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | PATERSON, BRIGITTE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898030 | TUNABLE COUPLER WITH COUPLING EXTENSION | KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | 2836 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18836930 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MAKING A COUPLING TO A QUBIT | SMITH, BRIAN M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18716030 | Transmission line in a superconducting circuit | PERENY, TYLER J | 2843 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18710431 | QUANTUM PROCESSING UNIT, QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR READING OUT STATES OF QUBITS | HERNANDEZ, WILLIAM | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18699086 | CHARACTERIZATION OF QUBIT ENVIRONMENT | KNAPP, JUSTIN R | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18593238 | QUANTUM PROCESSING UNIT | KHAN, MASUD K | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18559664 | QUANTUM-STATE READOUT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | PATERSON, BRIGITTE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
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