Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH

13 pending office actions • 5 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
4
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

2
Hard (15%)
10
Medium (77%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (15%)
§103 only10 (77%)
§112 only1 (8%)

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
13
Semiconductors
100% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2 64.2% +10.7%
BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 1 84.3% +11.2%
WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T 1 84.6% +14.6%
WANG, JING 1 100.0% +0.0%
LI, LARRY 1 100.0% +0.0%
NGUYEN, KIET TUAN 1 88.8% -0.1%
VANORE, DAVID A 1 88.8% +7.5%
EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 1
KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 1 83.0% +24.3%
GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 80.5% +23.5%

Quick Wins (7)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18612964 LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY REACTOR WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T 5d
18294436 MULTIPLE INLET APPARATUS FOR ISOTOPE RATIO SPECTROMETRY LI, LARRY 5d
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
18716746 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPECTROMETER CALIBRATION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 12d
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 27d
18546918 HIGH PRESSURE ION OPTICAL DEVICES GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 35d

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18419454 MASS SPECTROMETER AND DATA ACQUISITION METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ANALYTE IONS VANORE, DAVID A 8d
18128221 Analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 56d

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
18612964 LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY REACTOR WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T 5d
18716746 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPECTROMETER CALIBRATION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 12d
18118456 Disambiguation of cyclic ion analyser spectra LOGIE, MICHAEL J 22d
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 27d
18546918 HIGH PRESSURE ION OPTICAL DEVICES GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 35d
18492716 APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 86d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2881 9
2877 1
2855 1
2878 1
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18716746 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPECTROMETER CALIBRATION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18612964 LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY REACTOR WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18433245 TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY WANG, JING 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18294436 MULTIPLE INLET APPARATUS FOR ISOTOPE RATIO SPECTROMETRY LI, LARRY 2881 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18428340 ION GUIDE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS FOR ION TRANSPORT AND CONFINEMENT NGUYEN, KIET TUAN 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18419454 MASS SPECTROMETER AND DATA ACQUISITION METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ANALYTE IONS VANORE, DAVID A 2878 §101 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18492716 APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18467401 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ION TRAP COUPLED TO MASS ANALYSER EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18546918 HIGH PRESSURE ION OPTICAL DEVICES GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 2881 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18343645 SWITCHABLE-PATH ION GUIDE TANDY, LAURA ELOISE 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18128221 Analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 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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