Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH

19 pending office actions • 3 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
3
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

13
Hard (68%)
5
Medium (26%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other4 (21%)
§103 only3 (16%)
§102 only2 (11%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (42%)

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
14
Semiconductors
74% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
5
Business / Other
26% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, JING 3 100.0% +0.0%
EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 3 100.0% +0.0%
MASKELL, MICHAEL P 2 86.1% +9.2%
KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 2 85.0% +23.1%
LI, LARRY 2 100.0% +0.0%
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2 63.7% +9.4%
VANORE, DAVID A 1 88.9% +7.5%
CHANG, HANWAY 1 85.8% +7.9%
NGUYEN, KIET TUAN 1 88.8% -0.2%
STOFFA, WYATT A 1 79.5% +23.1%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 27d
18786140 CHARGE DETECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY UTILIZING HARMONIC OSCILLATION AND SELECTIVE TEMPORAL OVERVIEW OF RESONANT ION (STORI) PLOTS MASKELL, MICHAEL P
18671085 METHOD FOR REDUCING CHARGE AND ION OPTICAL SYSTEM VANORE, DAVID A
18670620 VOLTAGE SUPPLY FOR MASS SPECTROMETER EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN
18537674 INTERFACE ION GUIDE MASKELL, MICHAEL P

Hard Cases (13)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
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
18467401 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ION TRAP COUPLED TO MASS ANALYSER EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 9d
18128221 Analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 56d
18492716 APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 86d
18796640 ACQUISITION OF ION MOBILITY-MASS TO CHARGE RATIO DATA WANG, JING
18722511 FAILURE DETECTION OF SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS WANG, JING

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 27d
18744091 AXIAL ION SOURCE KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE
18448844 HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE SCANS (OVERLAPPING WINDOWS) STOFFA, WYATT A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2881 11
2878 2
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18796640 ACQUISITION OF ION MOBILITY-MASS TO CHARGE RATIO DATA WANG, JING §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18786140 CHARGE DETECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY UTILIZING HARMONIC OSCILLATION AND SELECTIVE TEMPORAL OVERVIEW OF RESONANT ION (STORI) PLOTS MASKELL, MICHAEL P DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18722511 FAILURE DETECTION OF SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS WANG, JING §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2024
18744091 AXIAL ION SOURCE KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2024
18671085 METHOD FOR REDUCING CHARGE AND ION OPTICAL SYSTEM VANORE, DAVID A §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18670620 VOLTAGE SUPPLY FOR MASS SPECTROMETER EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2024
18638549 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION CHANG, HANWAY 2878 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2024
18617482 TIME OF FLIGHT MASS ANALYSIS SYSTEM LI, LARRY 2881 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 26, 2024
18433245 TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY WANG, JING 2881 §103§112 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18294436 MULTIPLE INLET APPARATUS FOR ISOTOPE RATIO SPECTROMETRY LI, LARRY 2881 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 5d Pending Feb 01, 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
18537674 INTERFACE ION GUIDE MASKELL, MICHAEL P 2878 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18508999 ION GUIDE EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2023
18492716 APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 86d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18467401 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ION TRAP COUPLED TO MASS ANALYSER EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 2881 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18448844 HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE SCANS (OVERLAPPING WINDOWS) STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2023
18128221 Analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §101§103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18118456 Disambiguation of cyclic ion analyser spectra LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 07, 2023

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