Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Waters Technologies Ireland Limited currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 6 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical subject matter within the sector. The presence of 6 art units suggests that the company's innovations span several specialized classifications.
Prosecution is handled by 8 distinct examiners. Among these, SMYTH, ANDREW P is the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests that the workload is spread across the examining corps rather than being concentrated under a single individual. For a practitioner, this indicates that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific preferences of the 8 different examiners. The lack of concentration among examiners means that no single individual's tendencies dominate the current pending portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 only | 2 (22%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (44%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMYTH, ANDREW P | 1 | 71.7% | +14.5% |
| NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 1 | 67.5% | +24.2% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | 1 | — | — |
| HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 1 | 75.8% | +29.3% |
| LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 1 | 58.5% | +55.3% |
| REYES, REGINALD R | 1 | 41.0% | +31.9% |
| OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 1 | 73.0% | +16.7% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.5% |
| GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 1 | 14.6% | +16.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17552935 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING AND EXECUTING A CHROMATOGRAPHY WORKFLOW | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 99d overdue |
| 18163451 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR DISCOVERING ERRORS AND SYSTEM READINESS CONDITIONS IN LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY INSTRUMENTS | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 70d |
| 18711470 | A METHOD OF CONFIGURING A STRING OF PULSES | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — |
| 18264217 | A METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18187792 | PROGRAMMATIC PROCESSING OF PROTEIN OR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES TO IDENTIFY MUTATIONS AT PROGRAMMATICALLY DETERMINED SUBSEQUENCES | SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | — |
| 17843167 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING MOLECULE MODIFICATIONS | REYES, REGINALD R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17552935 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING AND EXECUTING A CHROMATOGRAPHY WORKFLOW | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 99d overdue |
| 17559013 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING CHROMATOGRAPHY DATA | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 5d |
| 17932845 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING A QUALITY CONTROL RECORD CHAIN FOR LABORATORY ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS | LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 26d |
| 17749449 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ASSISTED CALIBRATION FOR A MASS SPECTROMETRY APPARATUS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 34d |
| 18163451 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR DISCOVERING ERRORS AND SYSTEM READINESS CONDITIONS IN LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY INSTRUMENTS | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 70d |
| 18711470 | A METHOD OF CONFIGURING A STRING OF PULSES | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — |
| 18264217 | A METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | — |
| 17843167 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING MOLECULE MODIFICATIONS | REYES, REGINALD R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2493 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711470 | A METHOD OF CONFIGURING A STRING OF PULSES | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18264217 | A METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18187792 | PROGRAMMATIC PROCESSING OF PROTEIN OR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES TO IDENTIFY MUTATIONS AT PROGRAMMATICALLY DETERMINED SUBSEQUENCES | SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
| 18163451 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR DISCOVERING ERRORS AND SYSTEM READINESS CONDITIONS IN LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY INSTRUMENTS | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 2855 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17932845 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING A QUALITY CONTROL RECORD CHAIN FOR LABORATORY ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS | LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 2493 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17843167 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING MOLECULE MODIFICATIONS | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17749449 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ASSISTED CALIBRATION FOR A MASS SPECTROMETRY APPARATUS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17559013 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING CHROMATOGRAPHY DATA | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17552935 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING AND EXECUTING A CHROMATOGRAPHY WORKFLOW | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 3624 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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