Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
20 pending office actions • 3 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH has 18 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 18 pending office actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, which indicates that several examiners are handling multiple applications for the company. This distribution among 10 distinct examiners shows a higher level of concentration than in portfolios where every pending action has a unique examiner.
The workload is focused within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's semiconductor and optics innovations are being reviewed by a small number of specialized groups at the USPTO. WANG, JING is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 4 pending office actions. With 18 pending office actions in total and only 10 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution strategy involves significant interaction with a few key individuals. This concentration within 2 distinct art units allows the company to potentially identify patterns in how its 18 pending office actions are being evaluated.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 3 (15%) |
| §103 only | 4 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (60%) |
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% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 3 | 63.4% | +9.3% |
| KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 2 | 84.4% | +23.8% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 2 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
| LI, LARRY | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 1 | 71.6% | +27.2% |
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 81.9% | +24.0% |
| VANORE, DAVID A | 1 | 88.9% | +7.5% |
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 1 | 67.9% | +45.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466766 | TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 27d |
| 18671085 | METHOD FOR REDUCING CHARGE AND ION OPTICAL SYSTEM | VANORE, DAVID A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18492716 | APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 86d |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
| 18796640 | ACQUISITION OF ION MOBILITY-MASS TO CHARGE RATIO DATA | WANG, JING | — |
| 18722514 | SKIMMERS FOR PLASMA INTERFACES | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466766 | TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 27d |
| 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 | — |
| 18744091 | AXIAL ION SOURCE | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | — |
| 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 | 9 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065158 | DIAGNOSTIC TESTING METHOD FOR A SPECTROMETER | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18796640 | ACQUISITION OF ION MOBILITY-MASS TO CHARGE RATIO DATA | WANG, JING | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18722514 | SKIMMERS FOR PLASMA INTERFACES | WANG, JING | — | §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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18744091 | AXIAL ION SOURCE | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18677292 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL | WANG, JING | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 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§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18669215 | MULTI-REFLECTION MASS SPECTROMETER | STOFFA, WYATT A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18617482 | TIME OF FLIGHT MASS ANALYSIS SYSTEM | LI, LARRY | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18610172 | CLEANING ION OPTIC MULTIPOLE DEVICES | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18466766 | TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | 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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