Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Array Tech Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active cases are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that almost every pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized division of the patent office. The presence of 4 distinct art units for only 5 actions suggests a diverse range of chemical or material innovations.
Ryan Smith Cannon is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 pending office actions under their review. This accounts for a significant portion of the 5 total pending actions for the company. The remaining pending actions are spread across the other 4 distinct examiners. With 4 distinct art units involved, the company's prosecution efforts are spread across several technical niches despite the small total number of active cases. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles given the ratio of examiners to pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 2 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.2% | +27.8% |
| MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 1 | 67.6% | -10.3% |
| KEENAN, JAMES W | 1 | 66.8% | +24.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794772 | A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A TORQUE TUBE TO A MOUNTING RAIL | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 76d |
| 19014703 | VARIABLE ANGLE TORQUE TUBE CONNECTOR | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
| 18748640 | SOLAR COMPONENT STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION DEVICES | KEENAN, JAMES 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794772 | A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A TORQUE TUBE TO A MOUNTING RAIL | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 76d |
| 19406216 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLIES IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR TRACKERS | KANG, TAE-SIK | — |
| 19014703 | VARIABLE ANGLE TORQUE TUBE CONNECTOR | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
| 18748640 | SOLAR COMPONENT STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION DEVICES | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 2 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19406216 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLIES IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR TRACKERS | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 19374657 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLIES IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR TRACKERS | MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 3632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19014703 | VARIABLE ANGLE TORQUE TUBE CONNECTOR | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18794772 | A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A TORQUE TUBE TO A MOUNTING RAIL | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18748640 | SOLAR COMPONENT STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION DEVICES | KEENAN, JAMES W | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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