Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 2 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
ALG Intellectual Property, LLC | TF is a patent law firm that focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, having handled 1970 career applications. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate of 91.92 percent, demonstrating a capability in securing patent protection for semiconductor and optical innovations. This success rate is an indicator of their proficiency in these technical fields.
The firm currently manages 5 pending office actions. Their prosecution history includes an average of 3.43 office actions per allowance. This figure suggests a persistent approach to examiner interaction, requiring the rounds of communication recorded in the data to reach the 91.92 percent allowance rate. For practitioners, the 3.43 average provides an expectation for the intensity of the prosecution cycle in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics.
With 1970 career applications, the firm has a foundation of experience in the industry. The 91.92 percent allowance rate and 3.43 office actions per allowance together paint a picture of a firm with a track record of success. These metrics, along with the 5 pending office actions, offer a view of the firm's performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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% |
| IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 1 | 86.6% | +9.6% |
| ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 1 | 72.3% | +14.9% |
| NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 1 | 88.9% | +0.0% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.4% | +9.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794310 | MULTIPLEXED ION PRE-SEPARATION FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428340 | ION GUIDE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS FOR ION TRANSPORT AND CONFINEMENT | NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 7d |
| 18970586 | ION GUIDE GEOMETRY IMPROVEMENTS | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970586 | ION GUIDE GEOMETRY IMPROVEMENTS | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — |
| 18679001 | OPTIMIZATION OF ACQUISITION WINDOW WIDTH FOR TARGETED MASS SPECTROMETRY | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Thermo Fisher | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 3 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970586 | ION GUIDE GEOMETRY IMPROVEMENTS | Thermo Finnigan LLC | SMYTH, ANDREW P | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 | |
| 18794310 | MULTIPLEXED ION PRE-SEPARATION FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY | Thermo Finnigan LLC | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 2881 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18679001 | OPTIMIZATION OF ACQUISITION WINDOW WIDTH FOR TARGETED MASS SPECTROMETRY | Thermo Finnigan LLC | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18428340 | ION GUIDE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS FOR ION TRANSPORT AND CONFINEMENT | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 2881 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18118456 | Disambiguation of cyclic ion analyser spectra | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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