Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Qubit Ip, Pllc

Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Qubit IP, PLLC handles Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics matters and has 8 pending office actions. Its record includes 80 career applications, a resolved allowance rate of 96.88%, and an average of 4.0 office actions per allowance.

The allowance rate indicates that most resolved applications in the reported portfolio reached allowance, while the office-action average shows that allowed matters commonly required repeated examination responses. The pending docket is smaller than the reported career application volume, so the active matters represent a limited portion of the recorded practice.

For semiconductor and circuit clients, the combination of outcome and effort metrics supports review of both claim-persistence strategies and the response work typically needed to secure allowance. The figures describe historical prosecution and do not predict the result of any particular pending matter.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=80 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

96.9%
Allowance Rate
n=80
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=80
4.0
OAs to Allowance
n=31
-0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=31
795 days
Time to Allowance
n=31
+14.3pp
Interview Lift
n=80
87.5%
RCE Rate
n=80
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=80

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=12 (min 20)
50.0%
§102 Overcome
n=28
53.7%
§103 Overcome
n=41
51.6%
§112 Overcome
n=31

Specialization & Scale

G02C, B29D, G02B
Top CPC Subclasses
41%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=80
0
Practitioners
n=80
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=80 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

3
Hard (43%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (29%)
§103 only3 (43%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
43% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 2 68.2% +16.3%
NGUYEN, LAM S 1 78.9% +0.3%
PAN, YONGJIA 1 65.4% +30.8%
FERRERO, EDUARDO R 1 61.7% +43.1%
HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE 1 65.0% +19.9%
STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 1 55.2% +26.6%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18555517 PROCESS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION, SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF RADIOISOTOPES GARNER, LILY CRABTREE —
18019345 MACHINE AND METHOD FOR RUNNING A MACHINE FERRERO, EDUARDO R —
17905216 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY GARNER, LILY CRABTREE —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17145472 SPECTACLE LENS HAVING A DIFFRACTION STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 29d
18505861 METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OPTICAL COATING APPARATUSES PAN, YONGJIA —
18555517 PROCESS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION, SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF RADIOISOTOPES GARNER, LILY CRABTREE —
18019345 MACHINE AND METHOD FOR RUNNING A MACHINE FERRERO, EDUARDO R —
17905216 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY GARNER, LILY CRABTREE —
17406293 INTERFERENCE LAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE —

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36462
28722
28531
21181
37311

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18747800 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRINTING PARAMETER VALUES OF AN INKJET PRINTING DEVICE, A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR INKJET PRINTING AND AN INKJET PRINTING DEVICE Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH NGUYEN, LAM S 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 19, 2024
18505861 METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OPTICAL COATING APPARATUSES Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH PAN, YONGJIA 2118 — Final Rejection — Pending Nov 09, 2023
18555517 PROCESS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION, SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF RADIOISOTOPES Su-N Energy Holdings Ltd. GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 3646 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 14, 2023
18019345 MACHINE AND METHOD FOR RUNNING A MACHINE Hilti Aktiengesellschaft FERRERO, EDUARDO R 3731 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 02, 2023
17905216 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY Suneel Navnitdas Parekh GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 3646 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2022
17406293 INTERFERENCE LAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE 2872 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 19, 2021
17145472 SPECTACLE LENS HAVING A DIFFRACTION STRUCTURE FOR LIGHT Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 11, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Qubit Ip, Pllc's patent allowance rate?

96.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Qubit Ip, Pllc were allowed, across 80 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Qubit Ip, Pllc average before allowance?

4.00 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Qubit Ip, Pllc have?

7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.

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