Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Micromass UK Limited

9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
7
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§102 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
8
Semiconductors
89% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VANORE, DAVID A 2 88.8% +7.5%
OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 1 73.4% +16.6%
DAVIS, RUTH A 1 60.6% +31.1%
WANG, JING 1 100.0% +0.0%
BOLDUC, DAVID J 1 84.2% +7.1%
STOFFA, WYATT A 1 79.9% +22.4%
GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 80.5% +23.5%
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 1 64.2% +10.7%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18568165 VACUUM SYSTEM FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER WANG, JING 38d overdue
18556758 METHOD TO REDUCE MEASUREMENT BIAS BOLDUC, DAVID J 9d overdue
18578838 MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH SAMPLING DUTY CYCLE VANORE, DAVID A 1d overdue
18580744 MASS SPECTROMETER FOR GENERATING AND SUMMING MASS SPECTRAL DATA VANORE, DAVID A 8d
18546010 POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 43d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18758956 ION ENTRY/EXIT DEVICE OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 43d overdue
18619589 CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT DAVIS, RUTH A 2d overdue
18556409 NEBULISER OUTLET STOFFA, WYATT A 5d
17911923 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING IONS BY ION PEAK COMPRESSION OR EXPANSION LOGIE, MICHAEL J 13d
18546010 POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 43d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2881 5
2878 2
1699 1
2852 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18758956 ION ENTRY/EXIT DEVICE OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 2881 Other Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18619589 CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT DAVIS, RUTH A 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18580744 MASS SPECTROMETER FOR GENERATING AND SUMMING MASS SPECTRAL DATA VANORE, DAVID A 2878 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18578838 MASS SPECTROMETER HAVING HIGH SAMPLING DUTY CYCLE VANORE, DAVID A 2878 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18568165 VACUUM SYSTEM FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER WANG, JING 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18556758 METHOD TO REDUCE MEASUREMENT BIAS BOLDUC, DAVID J 2852 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18556409 NEBULISER OUTLET STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18546010 POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 2881 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Aug 10, 2023
17911923 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING IONS BY ION PEAK COMPRESSION OR EXPANSION LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 15, 2022

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