Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
16 pending office actions • 4 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quantinuum LLC is managing 16 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are spread across 14 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. WYATT A STOFFA is the busiest examiner, currently handling 3 pending office actions. The distribution of 16 pending office actions among 14 distinct examiners suggests a high degree of individual review for most cases. The 4 distinct art units indicate that the portfolio covers several specialized areas within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
Practitioners should note that while WYATT A STOFFA has a higher concentration of cases, the majority of the 16 pending office actions are being handled by different examiners. This requires a strategy that balances consistency with the need to address 14 different examiner styles. Practitioners must manage 14 separate examiner relationships across 4 distinct art units. The current prosecution workload represents a significant and varied effort that demands specialized technical expertise. WYATT A STOFFA manages 3 pending office actions, but the rest of the portfolio remains highly distributed.
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 (6%) |
| §103 only | 4 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 3 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
| JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 67.6% | +22.4% |
| STARK, JARRETT J | 1 | 70.5% | +11.5% |
| IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 1 | 86.6% | +9.6% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
| LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | 1 | 77.4% | +1.1% |
| MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 1 | 77.4% | +18.2% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 1 | 84.6% | +8.1% |
| GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 79.6% | +25.0% |
| SANKS, SCHYLER S | 1 | 72.8% | +16.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778447 | ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS WITH RADIO FREQUENCY ELECTRODE SHAPING FOR PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — |
| 18391967 | FLEX ION TRAP INTERCONNECT | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468892 | CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 10d overdue |
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18605129 | LASER PHASE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | — |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18454523 | QUANTUM SYSTEM COMPRISING METASURFACES COMPRISING TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18451939 | CHIP INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL TOOL | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18888903 | INTEGRATION AND CO-PACKAGING OF CONFINEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) SUBSYSTEM | STARK, JARRETT J | — |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18738398 | TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE QUANTIZATION FIELD OF AN ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18404144 | QUANTUM COMPUTER PHASE TRACKING AND CORRECTION | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18521501 | CYCLIC STORAGE AREAS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 5 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18888903 | INTEGRATION AND CO-PACKAGING OF CONFINEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) SUBSYSTEM | STARK, JARRETT J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18778447 | ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS WITH RADIO FREQUENCY ELECTRODE SHAPING FOR PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18738398 | TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE QUANTIZATION FIELD OF AN ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | STOFFA, WYATT A | — | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18605129 | LASER PHASE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18404144 | QUANTUM COMPUTER PHASE TRACKING AND CORRECTION | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18391967 | FLEX ION TRAP INTERCONNECT | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18521501 | CYCLIC STORAGE AREAS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18468892 | CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18454523 | QUANTUM SYSTEM COMPRISING METASURFACES COMPRISING TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18451939 | CHIP INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL TOOL | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18339693 | Machine-Learning Based Quantum Noise Decoder | KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE | 2129 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17931616 | HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING SIMULATION OF CHEMICAL SYSTEMS | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1686 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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