Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ce Cell Engineering GmbH operates a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending application is being handled independently by a different examiner in a different specialized department.
AYAD, TAMIR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. The 2 distinct art units suggest that the company's chemical engineering innovations span multiple technical classifications. This variety requires the company to manage two separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct examiners provide a diversified prosecution environment. No single examiner has control over the entire active portfolio, as shown by the 1 busiest examiner pending office action count. The presence of 2 distinct art units means that the company must address the specific standards of two different units within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +47.9% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 84.4% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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