Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC

15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

7
Hard (47%)
8
Medium (53%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (47%)
§102 only1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (47%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
87% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHERN, CHRISTINA 1 38.7% +41.5%
GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1 42.4% +38.8%
MOWLA, GOLAM 1 61.7% +28.3%
WIESE, NOAH S 1 83.4% -2.0%
SAMPLE, DAVID R 1 79.7% +10.4%
TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 1 53.0% +25.5%
BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1 56.2% +16.3%
MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1 56.8% +45.3%
CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1 75.2% +35.3%
NGUYEN, NAM P 1 54.7% +47.4%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17122161 HYDRIDE ENHANCED GROWTH RATES IN HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY MOORE, KARLA A 49d overdue
18261893 DYNAMIC HVPE OF COMPOSITIONALLY GRADED BUFFER LAYERS CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 8d overdue
18349867 PEGBOARD PROTEIN PURIFICATION PLATE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION NGUYEN, NAM P 33d
18442276 MONOLAYER ION-BLOCKING LAYERS FOR STABLE METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE INTERFACES AND DEVICES SAMPLE, DAVID R 39d
19169633 MONOLAYERS FOR RANDOM HOLE FORMATION FOR PASSIVATION AND TRANSPORT IN SILICON DEVICES CHERN, CHRISTINA
18585226 Thermally Insulative Concrete Made From Biorefinery Byproducts WIESE, NOAH S
17613621 ELECTRONIC RATCHET GUPTA, RAJ R

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18566764 CONTROL OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY DURING THE GROWTH OF (110)-ORIENTED GAAS BY HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 30d overdue
18261893 DYNAMIC HVPE OF COMPOSITIONALLY GRADED BUFFER LAYERS CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 8d overdue
18567145 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING PEROVSKITE SURFACES TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 4d overdue
18349867 PEGBOARD PROTEIN PURIFICATION PLATE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION NGUYEN, NAM P 33d
18442276 MONOLAYER ION-BLOCKING LAYERS FOR STABLE METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE INTERFACES AND DEVICES SAMPLE, DAVID R 39d
18277153 Materials and Methods for Hole Transport Layers in Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 42d
19169633 MONOLAYERS FOR RANDOM HOLE FORMATION FOR PASSIVATION AND TRANSPORT IN SILICON DEVICES CHERN, CHRISTINA
18917349 STRESS-FREE PEROVSKITE LAYERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME GOLDEN, ANDREW J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1722 2
1726 2
1784 2
1714 2
1721 1
1678 1
1728 1
1723 1
2893 1
1716 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18917349 STRESS-FREE PEROVSKITE LAYERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1726 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18914943 PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES WITH LASER WELDED GLASS MOWLA, GOLAM 1721 §102 Final Rejection Pending Oct 14, 2024
18585226 Thermally Insulative Concrete Made From Biorefinery Byproducts WIESE, NOAH S §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 23, 2024
18442276 MONOLAYER ION-BLOCKING LAYERS FOR STABLE METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE INTERFACES AND DEVICES SAMPLE, DAVID R 1784 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 39d Pending Feb 15, 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
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
18261893 DYNAMIC HVPE OF COMPOSITIONALLY GRADED BUFFER LAYERS CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1784 §103§112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18349867 PEGBOARD PROTEIN PURIFICATION PLATE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 10, 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
16902117 HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY REACTORS SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 15, 2020

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