Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Thermo Finnigan LLC

9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (6)

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.

1
Hard (11%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
8
Semiconductors
89% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 2 73.4% +16.6%
NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 1
BOLDUC, DAVID J 1 84.2% +7.1%
CORDERO, LINA M 1 71.5% +37.7%
SMITH, DAVID E 1 84.9% +7.3%
CHOI, JAMES J 1 66.8% +46.6%
NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 1 70.1% +11.0%
LAKHANI, ANDREW C 1 22.2% +30.7%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18473054 METHOD OF UTILIZING DEUTERIUM GAS FOR CHROMATOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS, DEUTERIUM GAS GENERATOR AND DEVICES FOR CONSERVATION THEREOF BOLDUC, DAVID J 31d overdue
18351270 COLLISION CELL WITH ENHANCED ION BEAM FOCUSING AND TRANSMISSION SMITH, DAVID E 23d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17778805 REMOTE MONITORING, TROUBLESHOOTING AND SERVICE SCHEDULING OF ANALYTICAL APPARATUSES LAKHANI, ANDREW C 32d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17778805 REMOTE MONITORING, TROUBLESHOOTING AND SERVICE SCHEDULING OF ANALYTICAL APPARATUSES LAKHANI, ANDREW C 32d overdue
18251934 Removable Ion Source Capable Of Axial Or Cross Beam Ionization CHOI, JAMES J 17d overdue
18452308 INTELLIGENT MAINTENANCE FOR SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS CORDERO, LINA M 9d
18307463 ACCESSING LARGE DATA STRUCTURES GENERATED BY SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 15d
18538840 VACUUM SYSTEM FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 27d
18530809 AUTOMATIC POSITIONING OF AN ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION EMITTER OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2881 3
2857 3
2852 1
2878 1
3629 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18538840 VACUUM SYSTEM FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 13, 2023
18530809 AUTOMATIC POSITIONING OF AN ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION EMITTER OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18487306 METHOD USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO CONTROL A MASS SPECTROMETER NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18473054 METHOD OF UTILIZING DEUTERIUM GAS FOR CHROMATOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS, DEUTERIUM GAS GENERATOR AND DEVICES FOR CONSERVATION THEREOF BOLDUC, DAVID J 2852 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18452308 INTELLIGENT MAINTENANCE FOR SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS CORDERO, LINA M 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18351270 COLLISION CELL WITH ENHANCED ION BEAM FOCUSING AND TRANSMISSION SMITH, DAVID E 2881 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18251934 Removable Ion Source Capable Of Axial Or Cross Beam Ionization CHOI, JAMES J 2878 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18307463 ACCESSING LARGE DATA STRUCTURES GENERATED BY SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 2857 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 26, 2023
17778805 REMOTE MONITORING, TROUBLESHOOTING AND SERVICE SCHEDULING OF ANALYTICAL APPARATUSES LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending May 20, 2022

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