Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acwa Power Company has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Those matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, so the portfolio is distributed across separate examination channels rather than concentrated in one technical group.
LEVY, MERRITT E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that figure, which limits the value of a single-examiner prosecution strategy. Counsel should organize the docket by application and art unit, while identifying recurring claim or prior-art issues across the matters.
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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVY, MERRITT E | 1 | 31.7% | +35.6% |
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 86.0% | +14.4% |
| EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 1 | 62.5% | -7.6% |
| LEE, Y YOUNG | 1 | 48.7% | +26.1% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.3% | +38.0% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 35.0% | +10.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924733 | DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS FOR SET UP OF DOCKING STATION FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES USED IN PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS | LEVY, MERRITT E | 35d overdue |
| 18804675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF SOILING LOSS ON SOLAR PANELS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) POWER PLANT | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| 18749210 | FAILURE DETECTION IN SOLAR COLLECTORS | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | — |
| 18438303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMINERALIZATION OF PURIFIED WATER | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924733 | DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS FOR SET UP OF DOCKING STATION FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES USED IN PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS | LEVY, MERRITT E | 35d overdue |
| 18804675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF SOILING LOSS ON SOLAR PANELS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) POWER PLANT | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| 18593816 | NEURAL NETWORK-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR COAGULANT DOSING IN DESALINATION PLANTS | LEE, Y YOUNG | — |
| 18438303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMINERALIZATION OF PURIFIED WATER | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18424653 | SYSTEM CONFIGURATION FOR SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS (SWRO) FOR HIGHER RECOVERY OPERATIONS AND LOWER FOULING PROPENSITY | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924733 | DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS FOR SET UP OF DOCKING STATION FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES USED IN PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18804675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF SOILING LOSS ON SOLAR PANELS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) POWER PLANT | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 2858 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18749210 | FAILURE DETECTION IN SOLAR COLLECTORS | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18593816 | NEURAL NETWORK-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR COAGULANT DOSING IN DESALINATION PLANTS | LEE, Y YOUNG | 2485 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18438303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMINERALIZATION OF PURIFIED WATER | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18424653 | SYSTEM CONFIGURATION FOR SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS (SWRO) FOR HIGHER RECOVERY OPERATIONS AND LOWER FOULING PROPENSITY | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAcwa Power Company has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Merritt E Levy has the most, with 1 of Acwa Power Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
