Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
19 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH has 18 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 12 examiners and 5 art units, showing substantial docket breadth within a comparatively concentrated set of technical examination groups.
STOFFA, WYATT A is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration makes examiner-specific coordination useful, but the remaining matters require broader art-unit and application-level management.
The repeated art-unit coverage supports shared technical analysis and coordinated claim drafting across related matters. Counsel should still distinguish examiner treatment when planning amendments, interviews, and responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (26%) |
| §103 only | 4 (21%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, JING | 4 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 3 | 79.3% | +22.3% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 3 | 63.1% | +9.5% |
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2 | 80.0% | +25.0% |
| FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 1 | 71.0% | +28.5% |
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 82.2% | +24.1% |
| SUN, XIUQIN | 1 | 72.5% | +4.2% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 1 | 68.3% | +44.9% |
| NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 1 | 88.8% | +0.1% |
| SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 1 | 33.3% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433245 | TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY | WANG, JING | 6d |
| 18428340 | ION GUIDE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS FOR ION TRANSPORT AND CONFINEMENT | NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 7d |
| 18492716 | APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 86d |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
| 18803184 | MULTI-REFLECTION MASS SPECTROMETER | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18722514 | SKIMMERS FOR PLASMA INTERFACES | WANG, JING | — |
| 18722511 | FAILURE DETECTION OF SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS | WANG, JING | — |
| 18721477 | A METHOD OF DETERMINING OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF A SPECTROMETER, A MASS SPECTROMETER AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE CONFIGURED TO PERFORM THE METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065158 | DIAGNOSTIC TESTING METHOD FOR A SPECTROMETER | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | — |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
| 18803184 | MULTI-REFLECTION MASS SPECTROMETER | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18671642 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS ANALYSER AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS ANALYSER | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18670620 | VOLTAGE SUPPLY FOR MASS SPECTROMETER | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18669215 | MULTI-REFLECTION MASS SPECTROMETER | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18610172 | CLEANING ION OPTIC MULTIPOLE DEVICES | CHOI, JAMES J | — |
| 18500982 | ENHANCING MASS SPECTROMETER SIGNALS | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 12 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2857 | 2 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065158 | DIAGNOSTIC TESTING METHOD FOR A SPECTROMETER | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 2877 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18803184 | MULTI-REFLECTION MASS SPECTROMETER | STOFFA, WYATT A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18722514 | SKIMMERS FOR PLASMA INTERFACES | WANG, JING | 2881 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18722511 | FAILURE DETECTION OF SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS | WANG, JING | 2881 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18721477 | A METHOD OF DETERMINING OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF A SPECTROMETER, A MASS SPECTROMETER AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE CONFIGURED TO PERFORM THE METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18718540 | METHOD OF ANALYSING A SPECTRAL PEAK USING A NEURAL NETWORK | SUN, XIUQIN | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18677292 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18671642 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS ANALYSER AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS ANALYSER | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2881 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18670620 | VOLTAGE SUPPLY FOR MASS SPECTROMETER | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18669215 | MULTI-REFLECTION MASS SPECTROMETER | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18610172 | CLEANING ION OPTIC MULTIPOLE DEVICES | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18433245 | TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18428340 | ION GUIDE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS FOR ION TRANSPORT AND CONFINEMENT | NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 2881 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18500982 | ENHANCING MASS SPECTROMETER SIGNALS | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18492716 | APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18466493 | SIMULATING A MASS SPECTROMETER | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 2187 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18128221 | Analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18118456 | Disambiguation of cyclic ion analyser spectra | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 11 examiners.
Jing Wang has the most, with 4 of Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
