Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 3 clients • 15 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 13 (87%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS, KENNETH B | 1 | 86.3% | +2.4% |
| WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 1 | 84.6% | +14.6% |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LI, LARRY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SUN, XIUQIN | 1 | 72.9% | +3.6% |
| FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 1 | 71.5% | +26.2% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 64.2% | +10.7% |
| VANORE, DAVID A | 1 | 88.8% | +7.5% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 82.8% | +10.1% |
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474924 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING A RADIATION DETECTOR | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 24d overdue |
| 18612964 | LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY REACTOR | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 5d |
| 18294436 | MULTIPLE INLET APPARATUS FOR ISOTOPE RATIO SPECTROMETRY | LI, LARRY | 5d |
| 18433245 | TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY | WANG, JING | 6d |
| 18723281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTROMETRY OF A SAMPLE IN A PLASMA | WELLS, KENNETH B | 29d |
| 18478966 | ABERRATION CORRECTION SYSTEMS AND CHARGED PARTICLE MICROSCOPE SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME | VANORE, DAVID A | 70d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474924 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING A RADIATION DETECTOR | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 24d overdue |
| 18560906 | ARC SCANNING METHODS FOR LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 2d overdue |
| 18612964 | LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY REACTOR | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 5d |
| 18492716 | APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 86d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Thermo Fisher | 12 |
| Merck KGaA | 2 |
| Msaid GmbH | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 7 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTROMETRY OF A SAMPLE IN A PLASMA | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Ecublens) SARL | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2842 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18612964 | LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY REACTOR | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18433245 | TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18294436 | MULTIPLE INLET APPARATUS FOR ISOTOPE RATIO SPECTROMETRY | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | LI, LARRY | 2881 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18567756 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MOLECULAR SPECIES IN A MASS SPECTRUM | Msaid GmbH | SUN, XIUQIN | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18560906 | ARC SCANNING METHODS FOR LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Ecublens) SARL | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18492716 | APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING IONS | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18478966 | ABERRATION CORRECTION SYSTEMS AND CHARGED PARTICLE MICROSCOPE SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME | Fei Company | VANORE, DAVID A | 2878 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18474924 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING A RADIATION DETECTOR | Thermo Fisher Scientific Messtechnik GmbH | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18467401 | ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ION TRAP COUPLED TO MASS ANALYSER | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18466766 | TUNING A MASS SPECTROMETER FILTER | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18546918 | HIGH PRESSURE ION OPTICAL DEVICES | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18221603 | ADAPTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE ENDPOINT DETECTION FOR AUTOMATED DELAYERING OF SEMICONDUCTOR SAMPLES | Fei Company | YU, YUECHUAN | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18343645 | SWITCHABLE-PATH ION GUIDE | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | TANDY, LAURA ELOISE | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18296859 | ADAPTIVE SUBTRACTION FOR C-SIM MICROSCOPY | Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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