Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Micromass UK Limited is currently navigating 13 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 13 pending office actions are being reviewed by 10 distinct examiners, indicating that some examiners are handling multiple applications for the company. Despite the variety of examiners, the portfolio is concentrated in terms of organizational oversight, with all 13 pending office actions falling within 3 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, WANG, JING, is responsible for 3 busiest examiner pending actions, which is a portion of the 13 pending office actions. This concentration with a single examiner and within 3 distinct art units allows for a focused prosecution strategy compared to more dispersed portfolios. Practitioners can analyze the specific patterns of these 3 distinct art units to better predict the trajectory of the 13 pending office actions. The fact that 10 distinct examiners are involved across only 3 distinct art units implies that the company frequently interacts with a specific subset of the USPTO's staff.
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 + other | 3 (23%) |
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (54%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, JING | 4 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 2 | 84.4% | +23.8% |
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 1 | 78.0% | +6.8% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 1 | 84.6% | +8.1% |
| OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 1 | 73.0% | +16.7% |
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 79.6% | +25.0% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.4% | +9.3% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568165 | VACUUM SYSTEM FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER | WANG, JING | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546010 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 43d |
| 18850007 | MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH DUTY CYCLE | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | — |
| 18850020 | MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH DUTY CYCLE | WANG, JING | — |
| 18841235 | MEASURING IONS WITH CHARGE REDUCTION | WANG, JING | — |
| 18793315 | SEPARATING IONS IN AN ION TRAP | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — |
| 18698443 | ION DETECTORS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | — |
| 18693796 | ION SOURCE ASSEMBLY | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18686595 | NEBULISER OUTLET ASSEMBLY | WANG, JING | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546010 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 43d |
| 18850007 | MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH DUTY CYCLE | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | — |
| 18698443 | ION DETECTORS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | — |
| 18693796 | ION SOURCE ASSEMBLY | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18546528 | ION SOURCE NEBULISER | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | — |
| 17996599 | CALIBRATION OF ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 7 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2800 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920112 | ADAPTIVE INTRINSIC LOCK MASS CORRECTION | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18850007 | MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH DUTY CYCLE | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18850020 | MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH DUTY CYCLE | WANG, JING | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18841235 | MEASURING IONS WITH CHARGE REDUCTION | WANG, JING | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18793315 | SEPARATING IONS IN AN ION TRAP | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18698443 | ION DETECTORS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18693796 | ION SOURCE ASSEMBLY | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18686595 | NEBULISER OUTLET ASSEMBLY | WANG, JING | 2881 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18568165 | VACUUM SYSTEM FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18546528 | ION SOURCE NEBULISER | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 2881 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18546010 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18159300 | ACCELERATOR FOR MULTI-PASS MASS SPECTROMETERS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
| 17996599 | CALIBRATION OF ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2800 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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