Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Psiquantum Corp. currently manages 10 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, meaning every pending case is under the review of a different individual. The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical subject matter within the semiconductor field.
FAYE, MAMADOU is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. With 10 distinct examiners involved, there is no concentration of examiner influence, requiring a strategy that accounts for 10 different individual perspectives. The presence of 6 distinct art units further suggests that practitioners must navigate multiple technical silos at the patent office. This decentralized prosecution structure means that the outcome of each of the 10 pending office actions depends on a unique examiner-art unit combination.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 1 | 78.8% | +6.5% |
| KO, TONY | 1 | 87.8% | +2.6% |
| JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | 1 | 57.4% | -19.6% |
| LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 1 | 79.8% | +0.3% |
| CAPUTO, LISA M | 1 | 37.7% | +5.8% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
| MOONEY, MICHAEL P | 1 | 88.3% | +8.6% |
| TRAN, BINH X | 1 | 81.7% | +12.0% |
| SMITH, CHAD | 1 | 78.9% | +20.3% |
| VU, VU A | 1 | 92.4% | +6.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697669 | PATTERNING METHODS FOR PHOTONIC DEVICES | TRAN, BINH X | 22d overdue |
| 19065981 | Resettable Photon Number Resolving Detector | KO, TONY | — |
| 18902420 | ACTIVE ALIGNMENT OF OPTICAL DIE TO OPTICAL SUBSTRATES | TRINH, MINH N | — |
| 18845679 | BTO PHASE SHIFTER AND METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF | MOONEY, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18500504 | BARIUM TITANATE FILMS HAVING REDUCED INTERFACIAL STRAIN | VU, VU A | 20d |
| 19013903 | PHASE SHIFTER EMPLOYING TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES | JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | — |
| 18273753 | GENERATION AND MEASUREMENT OF ENTANGLED SYSTEMS OF PHOTONIC GKP QUBITS | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697669 | PATTERNING METHODS FOR PHOTONIC DEVICES | TRAN, BINH X | 22d overdue |
| 18695808 | BELL STATE GENERATOR FOR TEMPORALLY-ENCODED QUBITS | SMITH, CHAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081941 | Superconducting Logic Components | FAYE, MAMADOU | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19065981 | Resettable Photon Number Resolving Detector | KO, TONY | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19013903 | PHASE SHIFTER EMPLOYING TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES | JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18967051 | QUANTUM TOMOGRAPHY AND PHOTON SOURCE OPTIMIZATION | LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 2872 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18912289 | MULTI-WAVEGUIDE OPTICAL EDGE COUPLER HAVING SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES | CAPUTO, LISA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18902420 | ACTIVE ALIGNMENT OF OPTICAL DIE TO OPTICAL SUBSTRATES | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18845679 | BTO PHASE SHIFTER AND METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF | MOONEY, MICHAEL P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18697669 | PATTERNING METHODS FOR PHOTONIC DEVICES | TRAN, BINH X | 1713 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18695808 | BELL STATE GENERATOR FOR TEMPORALLY-ENCODED QUBITS | SMITH, CHAD | 2874 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18500504 | BARIUM TITANATE FILMS HAVING REDUCED INTERFACIAL STRAIN | VU, VU A | 2897 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18273753 | GENERATION AND MEASUREMENT OF ENTANGLED SYSTEMS OF PHOTONIC GKP QUBITS | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 17995340 | WAFER STACK WITH MgO DIRECTLY ON INSULATING LAYER | TRAN, HOANG Q | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
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