Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Quantinuum LLC

10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
6
Medium (60%)
3
Easy (30%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (40%)
§102 only2 (20%)
§112 only3 (30%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
10% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
7
Semiconductors
70% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SMITH, DAVID E 2 84.9% +7.3%
KINKEAD, ARNOLD M 1 91.1% +7.9%
CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 1 84.4% +3.7%
LAW, NGA LEUNG V 1 56.2% +19.8%
GO, RICKY 1 79.9% +9.2%
GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 80.5% +23.5%
OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 1 73.4% +16.6%
BEDTELYON, JOHN M 1 78.1% +14.0%
ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O 1 59.8% +22.6%

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
18299785 SEEDING AND OPTICAL PUMPING OF INTEGRATED LASERS FOR TRAPPED PARTICLE INTERACTION SMITH, DAVID E 17d overdue
18806812 LASER-FREE SINGLE QUBIT GATE KINKEAD, ARNOLD M 3d overdue
18514279 DETECTING LEAKAGE ERRORS IN HYPERFINE QUBITS CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 15d
18462913 LOW TEMPERATURE LOW-ABUNDANCE ATOMIC OBJECT DISPENSING SMITH, DAVID E 34d
18479588 COMPOSITE CONFINEMENT APPARATUS ASSEMBLY INCLUDING PHOTONICS PLATFORM 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
18156472 FAST FREQUENCY-TUNABLE OPTICAL RELAY AND METHODS OF USE BEDTELYON, JOHN M 36d overdue
18468892 CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 10d overdue
18498479 METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE LAW, NGA LEUNG V 27d
17817402 HOLOGRAPHIC QUANTUM DYNAMICS SIMULATION ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O 30d
18479588 COMPOSITE CONFINEMENT APPARATUS ASSEMBLY INCLUDING PHOTONICS PLATFORM GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 43d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2881 4
2849 1
2112 1
1717 1
2857 1
2874 1
2129 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18806812 LASER-FREE SINGLE QUBIT GATE KINKEAD, ARNOLD M 2849 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2024
18514279 DETECTING LEAKAGE ERRORS IN HYPERFINE QUBITS CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M 2112 §112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18498479 METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE LAW, NGA LEUNG V 1717 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 31, 2023
18495928 FILTER-AWARE VOLTAGE SIGNAL SEQUENCE DETERMINATION FOR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS GO, RICKY 2857 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18479588 COMPOSITE CONFINEMENT APPARATUS ASSEMBLY INCLUDING PHOTONICS PLATFORM GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18468892 CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2023
18462913 LOW TEMPERATURE LOW-ABUNDANCE ATOMIC OBJECT DISPENSING SMITH, DAVID E 2881 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18299785 SEEDING AND OPTICAL PUMPING OF INTEGRATED LASERS FOR TRAPPED PARTICLE INTERACTION SMITH, DAVID E 2881 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18156472 FAST FREQUENCY-TUNABLE OPTICAL RELAY AND METHODS OF USE BEDTELYON, JOHN M 2874 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
17817402 HOLOGRAPHIC QUANTUM DYNAMICS SIMULATION ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O 2129 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Aug 04, 2022

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