Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ce Cell Engineering GmbH is managing 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different individual, as shown by the 3 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution. This relationship between actions and examiners suggests that the company's semiconductor or optical innovations are being viewed as distinct technical challenges. The workload is further diversified across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the applications span several different specialized divisions.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HENRY, CALEB E, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With a total of 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed, and no single examiner has a dominant role. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to 3 different examiners across 3 distinct art units. This lack of concentration reduces the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area is multifaceted and requires navigation of various procedural environments.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENRY, CALEB E | 1 | 86.9% | +6.0% |
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +48.1% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 84.5% | +8.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581681 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT SIDE CONTACT AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | HENRY, CALEB E | — |
| 18581071 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT CONTACT GRID AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581984 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT CONTACT GRID AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581984 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT CONTACT GRID AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18581681 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT SIDE CONTACT AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | HENRY, CALEB E | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18581984 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT CONTACT GRID AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18581071 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE OHMIC CONTACT BETWEEN A FRONT CONTACT GRID AND A DOPED LAYER OF A WAFER SOLAR CELL | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCe Cell Engineering GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Caleb E Henry has the most, with 1 of Ce Cell Engineering GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
