Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

30 pending office actions • 7 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

30
Total Pending OAs
22
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
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.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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 (7%)
24
Medium (80%)
4
Easy (13%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (7%)
§103 only21 (70%)
§102 only3 (10%)
§112 only3 (10%)
Double-patenting only1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
3% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
21
Semiconductors
70% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
8
Business / Other
27% 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.

300 h
Manual time on pending OAs
60 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
105 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, JING 4 100.0% +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%
CHANG, HANWAY 2 86.1% +8.6%
STOFFA, WYATT A 2 79.6% +23.0%
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2 63.9% +10.3%
CHOI, JAMES J 2 67.4% +46.6%
HANSEN, JONATHAN M 1 79.4% +11.8%
GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M 1 80.7% +12.7%

Quick Wins (13)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18433245 TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY WANG, JING 6d
18467401 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ION TRAP COUPLED TO MASS ANALYSER EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 9d
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 27d
19016710 LINEARIZATION OF MERCURY CADMIUM TELLURIDE PHOTODETECTORS GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M
18796640 ACQUISITION OF ION MOBILITY-MASS TO CHARGE RATIO DATA WANG, JING
18786140 CHARGE DETECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY UTILIZING HARMONIC OSCILLATION AND SELECTIVE TEMPORAL OVERVIEW OF RESONANT ION (STORI) PLOTS MASKELL, MICHAEL P
18722514 SKIMMERS FOR PLASMA INTERFACES WANG, JING
18722511 FAILURE DETECTION OF SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS WANG, JING

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
18128221 Analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 56d
18638549 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION CHANG, HANWAY

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18118456 Disambiguation of cyclic ion analyser spectra LOGIE, MICHAEL J 22d
18466766 TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 27d
18492716 APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 86d
19048294 FRONTSCATTERING REFLECTOR FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY HANSEN, JONATHAN M
19016710 LINEARIZATION OF MERCURY CADMIUM TELLURIDE PHOTODETECTORS GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M
18744091 AXIAL ION SOURCE KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE
18500982 ENHANCING MASS SPECTROMETER SIGNALS STOFFA, WYATT A
18448844 HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE SCANS (OVERLAPPING WINDOWS) STOFFA, WYATT A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2881 12
2878 5
2884 1
2871 1
2877 1
2857 1
2171 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19048294 FRONTSCATTERING REFLECTOR FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY HANSEN, JONATHAN M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2025
19016710 LINEARIZATION OF MERCURY CADMIUM TELLURIDE PHOTODETECTORS GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M 2884 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 10, 2025
18052656 Microscope With Pre-Aligned Conditioning Optics MERLIN, JESSICA M 2871 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
18796640 ACQUISITION OF ION MOBILITY-MASS TO CHARGE RATIO DATA WANG, JING §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
18722514 SKIMMERS FOR PLASMA INTERFACES WANG, JING §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2024
18722511 FAILURE DETECTION OF SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS WANG, JING §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2024
18744091 AXIAL ION SOURCE KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2024
18716746 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPECTROMETER CALIBRATION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18671085 METHOD FOR REDUCING CHARGE AND ION OPTICAL SYSTEM VANORE, DAVID A §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18638549 ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION CHANG, HANWAY 2878 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2024
18433245 TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY WANG, JING 2881 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18537674 INTERFACE ION GUIDE MASKELL, MICHAEL P 2878 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18508999 ION GUIDE EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2023
18500982 ENHANCING MASS SPECTROMETER SIGNALS STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2023
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 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18448844 HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE SCANS (OVERLAPPING WINDOWS) STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2023
18210509 TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LABELLED ANALYTE IONS CHOI, JAMES J 2878 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 15, 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 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18787210 FLUID TRANSFER DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM WALSH, RYAN D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 29, 2024
18636916 Systems and Methods for Performing Data-Dependent Tandem Mass Spectrometry MCCORMACK, JASON L 2881 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 16, 2024
18387271 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING MASS SPECTROMETRY WITH A LOW SAMPLING RATE BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2023
18473049 DEUTERIUM GAS GENERATOR AND DEVICES FOR CONSERVATION THEREOF EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 2881 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 22, 2023
18455061 GEOMETRIES FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY MULTIPOLE ION GUIDES CHANG, HANWAY 2878 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2023
18360638 AXIAL ION SOURCE WITH MAGNETIC FIELD ADJUSTMENT TANDY, LAURA ELOISE 2881 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 27, 2023
18335929 CYCLE TIMER FOR IMPROVED PURITY OF REAGENT GAS SYSTEMS CHOI, JAMES J 2878 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023

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