Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC has 13 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 13 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. This workload is spread across 12 distinct art units, indicating a highly diverse range of technical classifications for the company's sustainable energy filings.
The busiest examiner, CHERN, CHRISTINA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This shows that the 13 pending office actions are distributed perfectly among the 13 distinct examiners. The involvement of 12 distinct art units suggests that nearly every pending matter is being evaluated by a different specialized group. This extreme distribution requires the company to manage a wide array of examiner preferences and departmental guidelines across the chemistry and materials field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 6 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.3% |
| HAYES, JOVON E | 1 | 84.5% | +9.9% |
| WILBURN, MOLLY K | 1 | 90.2% | +8.9% |
| WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | 1 | 73.7% | -3.6% |
| TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1 | 53.0% | +25.8% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.1% | +16.3% |
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +14.5% |
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.5% | +45.7% |
| SONG, KEVIN | 1 | 70.0% | +11.3% |
| D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 68.1% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844537 | AUTONOMOUS ROAMING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE | HAYES, JOVON E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17122161 | HYDRIDE ENHANCED GROWTH RATES IN HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY | MOORE, KARLA A | 49d overdue |
| 18582175 | NON-INTRUSIVE OPTICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR HELIOSTAT ERROR DETECTION | WILBURN, MOLLY K | 5d |
| 18557369 | WIRELESS HOME IDENTIFICATION AND SENSING PLATFORM | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 60d |
| 19169633 | MONOLAYERS FOR RANDOM HOLE FORMATION FOR PASSIVATION AND TRANSPORT IN SILICON DEVICES | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
| 18406697 | MULTIJUNCTION LIGHT EMITTING DIODES | WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | — |
| 17613621 | ELECTRONIC RATCHET | GUPTA, RAJ R | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566764 | CONTROL OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY DURING THE GROWTH OF (110)-ORIENTED GAAS BY HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 30d overdue |
| 18567145 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING PEROVSKITE SURFACES | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 4d overdue |
| 18277153 | Materials and Methods for Hole Transport Layers in Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 42d |
| 18557369 | WIRELESS HOME IDENTIFICATION AND SENSING PLATFORM | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 60d |
| 19169633 | MONOLAYERS FOR RANDOM HOLE FORMATION FOR PASSIVATION AND TRANSPORT IN SILICON DEVICES | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
| 18050124 | MECHANICAL PULVERIZATION OF COBALT-FREE NICKEL-RICH CATHODES | SONG, KEVIN | — |
| 17651093 | LASER ABLATION FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1722 | 2 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169633 | MONOLAYERS FOR RANDOM HOLE FORMATION FOR PASSIVATION AND TRANSPORT IN SILICON DEVICES | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1722 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 18844537 | AUTONOMOUS ROAMING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE | HAYES, JOVON E | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18582175 | NON-INTRUSIVE OPTICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR HELIOSTAT ERROR DETECTION | WILBURN, MOLLY K | 2666 | §101 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18406697 | MULTIJUNCTION LIGHT EMITTING DIODES | WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | 2897 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18567145 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING PEROVSKITE SURFACES | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18566764 | CONTROL OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY DURING THE GROWTH OF (110)-ORIENTED GAAS BY HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18557369 | WIRELESS HOME IDENTIFICATION AND SENSING PLATFORM | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18277153 | Materials and Methods for Hole Transport Layers in Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18050124 | MECHANICAL PULVERIZATION OF COBALT-FREE NICKEL-RICH CATHODES | SONG, KEVIN | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17651093 | LASER ABLATION FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 17613621 | ELECTRONIC RATCHET | GUPTA, RAJ R | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
| 17122161 | HYDRIDE ENHANCED GROWTH RATES IN HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2020 |
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