Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trace Matters Scientific LLC has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is assigned to a distinct art unit, showing a concentrated focus for the current portfolio.
The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE. As the busiest examiner for the company, IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE is responsible for 1 pending office action. This alignment between the total actions and the busiest examiner workload indicates that all pending activity is under the review of one person.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 1 | 86.7% | +9.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18795009 | RECONFIGURABLE SEQUENTIALLY-PACKED ION (SPION) TRANSFER DEVICE | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18795009 | RECONFIGURABLE SEQUENTIALLY-PACKED ION (SPION) TRANSFER DEVICE | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 2881 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTrace Matters Scientific LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicole Marie Ippolito has the most, with 1 of Trace Matters Scientific LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
