Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Eschweiler & Potashnik, LLC (Axcelis)

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
80% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEN, KEATH T 1 30.3% +24.5%
LEE, NATHANIEL J. 1 63.2% +22.0%
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 1 64.2% +10.7%
MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 1 70.0% +42.9%
CHOI, JAMES J 1 66.8% +46.6%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19063918 LOW-TEMPERATURE VAPORIZER FOR ION IMPLANTER WITH IN-VACUUM CONTROLLED FLOW CHEN, KEATH T 132d overdue
18944039 FIXED POSITION FILAMENT LEE, NATHANIEL J. 45d overdue
18919483 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ION BEAM PROFILING LOGIE, MICHAEL J 34d
18918276 DEPOSITION MONITOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 42d
17348031 TUNING APPARATUS FOR MINIMUM DIVERGENCE ION BEAM CHOI, JAMES J

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Axcelis Technologies 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17161
28751
28811
28771
28781

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19063918 LOW-TEMPERATURE VAPORIZER FOR ION IMPLANTER WITH IN-VACUUM CONTROLLED FLOW Axcelis Technologies, Inc. CHEN, KEATH T 1716 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2025
18944039 FIXED POSITION FILAMENT Axcelis Technologies, Inc. LEE, NATHANIEL J. 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18919483 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ION BEAM PROFILING Axcelis Technologies, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18918276 DEPOSITION MONITOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM Axcelis Technologies, Inc. MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Oct 17, 2024
17348031 TUNING APPARATUS FOR MINIMUM DIVERGENCE ION BEAM Axcelis Technologies, Inc. CHOI, JAMES J 2878 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 15, 2021

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