Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 1 of 4 (25%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Z-Axis Pte. Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is notably diverse, as the 5 pending office actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a broad range of inquiries or a variety of specific technologies being pursued simultaneously. The prosecution activity spans 4 distinct art units, further illustrating the breadth of the company's current patenting efforts across different specialized groups.
MEMULA, SURESH is identified as the busiest examiner, although this examiner only holds a busiest_examiner_pending count of 1. This indicates that no single examiner dominates the portfolio, and the company must navigate multiple perspectives across various art units in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. For practitioners, this distribution means that the success of the portfolio is not tied to a single individual, but rather depends on managing 5 distinct examiner relationships across 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEMULA, SURESH | 1 | 87.6% | -0.2% |
| FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 1 | 73.3% | +22.2% |
| CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 1 | 69.6% | +27.7% |
| SHALU, ZELALEM W | 1 | 31.6% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18508872 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING QUBITS, QUANTUM CIRCUIT AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MEMULA, SURESH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATION OF QUANTUM CIRCUITS USING DECOUPLED HAMILTONIANS | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17804664 | POLYNOMIAL-TIME LINEAR CROSS-ENTROPY BENCHMARKING | SHALU, ZELALEM W | 23d overdue |
| 18451382 | METHOD FOR PREPARING MULTI-SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIAL LAYERS, QUANTUM DEVICE AND QUANTUM CHIP | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | — |
| 18252456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATION OF QUANTUM CIRCUITS USING DECOUPLED HAMILTONIANS | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18508872 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING QUBITS, QUANTUM CIRCUIT AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MEMULA, SURESH | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18451382 | METHOD FOR PREPARING MULTI-SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIAL LAYERS, QUANTUM DEVICE AND QUANTUM CHIP | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18252456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATION OF QUANTUM CIRCUITS USING DECOUPLED HAMILTONIANS | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 17804664 | POLYNOMIAL-TIME LINEAR CROSS-ENTROPY BENCHMARKING | SHALU, ZELALEM W | 2145 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | AI Ready | May 31, 2022 |
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