Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. This creates a matching count where each of the 4 pending office actions is reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is also spread across 4 distinct art units, ensuring that each matter is handled in a separate administrative division.
BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This confirms that the 4 pending office actions are evenly distributed, as no examiner handles more than 1 action. Because BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH is one of 4 distinct examiners each managing a single case, there is no concentration of work with any one person. This decentralized structure across 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's success depends on four independent reviews.
The involvement of 4 distinct art units for 4 actions suggests that the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics innovations are classified into four separate technical groups. With BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH and the other examiners each managing 1 action, the prosecution is highly varied. This variety in examiners and art units indicates that the 4 pending office actions involve different technical or administrative reviews within the field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 1 | 83.9% | +11.8% |
| YUN, JURIE | 1 | 87.4% | +10.2% |
| YANG, JIANXUN | 1 | 74.3% | +19.1% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 1 | 61.8% | +24.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19196607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18052656 | Microscope With Pre-Aligned Conditioning Optics | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 15d overdue |
| 19099931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION | YUN, JURIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18296859 | ADAPTIVE SUBTRACTION FOR C-SIM MICROSCOPY | YANG, JIANXUN | 17d overdue |
| 18052656 | Microscope With Pre-Aligned Conditioning Optics | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 15d overdue |
| 19196607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — |
| 19099931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION | YUN, JURIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19099931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION | YUN, JURIE | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18296859 | ADAPTIVE SUBTRACTION FOR C-SIM MICROSCOPY | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18052656 | Microscope With Pre-Aligned Conditioning Optics | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Dominic Joseph Bologna has the most, with 1 of Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
