Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rigetti & Co., LLC currently has 4 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly varied technical scope. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, which means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person at the patent office.
BECK, LERON is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 action is one of the 4 total pending actions currently in progress. The use of 4 distinct examiners for 4 actions shows a lack of examiner concentration, even though the work is focused within 2 art units in the computing and software field. For practitioners, this decentralized structure means that there is no single examiner style to master. Instead, the 4 pending office actions require 4 individual strategies tailored to the specific examiners involved. The distribution of 4 actions across 2 art units suggests that while the examiners are different, the technical subject matter is relatively concentrated. Successfully managing these 4 pending matters will require navigating the individual styles of the 4 distinct examiners within the Computing & Software sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.2% | +11.0% |
| CHEN, ZHI | 1 | 60.4% | +39.7% |
| SINGH, AMRESH | 1 | 76.2% | +21.9% |
| TAT, BINH C | 1 | 87.3% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763043 | Modifiable Quantum Error Correction Code for Logical Qubits | BECK, LERON | — |
| 18327918 | Parametric Amplification in a Quantum Computing System | TAT, BINH C | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618514 | Event Scheduling in a Hybrid Computing System | CHEN, ZHI | 46d overdue |
| 18763043 | Modifiable Quantum Error Correction Code for Logical Qubits | BECK, LERON | — |
| 18608864 | RANDOMIZED READOUT ERROR MITIGATION FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING | SINGH, AMRESH | — |
| 18327918 | Parametric Amplification in a Quantum Computing System | TAT, BINH C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763043 | Modifiable Quantum Error Correction Code for Logical Qubits | BECK, LERON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18618514 | Event Scheduling in a Hybrid Computing System | CHEN, ZHI | 2196 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18608864 | RANDOMIZED READOUT ERROR MITIGATION FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING | SINGH, AMRESH | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18327918 | Parametric Amplification in a Quantum Computing System | TAT, BINH C | 2851 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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