Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
110 pending office actions • 59 art units • 102 examiners • 0 of 110 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 256 patents granted in the last 365 days
COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are all within 1 distinct art unit. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner is VO, NGUYEN THANH, who has 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 actions and 3 examiners, each matter is handled by a unique individual. The concentration within 1 art unit suggests a specific technical focus for these pending matters. Practitioners must manage three different examiner relationships within the same art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 32 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. 32 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 | 5 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (5%) |
| §103 only | 34 (31%) |
| §102 only | 3 (3%) |
| §112 only | 10 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 47 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHARON M | 5 | 68.0% | +26.7% |
| DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | 2 | 81.5% | +3.3% |
| YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | 2 | 85.5% | -8.2% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 2 | 55.4% | +25.3% |
| ASTACIO-OQUENDO, GIOVANNI | 2 | 88.5% | +10.3% |
| ZHANG, DUAN | 1 | 61.0% | +18.7% |
| NGUYEN, LINH V | 1 | 89.2% | +2.3% |
| LEE, CHUN KUAN | 1 | 68.4% | +3.7% |
| BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 1 | 81.7% | +13.7% |
| WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 1 | 85.1% | +18.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799825 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING A WRAPPING GRID | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | — |
| 18264502 | GERMANIUM PHOTODIODE WITH OPTIMISED METAL CONTACTS | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | — |
| 18591120 | SWITCH BASED ON A PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | — |
| 18485181 | DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING A 2D IMAGE AND A DEPTH IMAGE OF A SCENE | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258380 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A III-N MATERIAL-BASED LAYER | LEE, DA WEI | 181d overdue |
| 18260439 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A NEUTRON ABSORBER IN A FLUID | DAVIS, SHARON M | 168d overdue |
| 18042087 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING A PART THROUGH NON-DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION | DINH, LYNDA | 149d overdue |
| 18156549 | LIGHT-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR (LWR), IN PARTICULAR A PRESSURISED WATER REACTOR (PWR) OR BOILING WATER REACTOR (BWR), INCORPORATING AN INTEGRAL, AUTONOMOUS, PASSIVE DECAY HEAT REMOVAL SYSTEM | DAVIS, SHARON M | 149d overdue |
| 18156629 | LIGHT WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR (LWR), IN PARTICULAR PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR (PWR) OR BOILING WATER REACTOR (BWR), WITH A HEAT SINK ON THE GROUND AND INCORPORATING AN AUTONOMOUS DECAY HEAT REMOVAL (DHR) SYSTEM | DAVIS, SHARON M | 110d overdue |
| 18286894 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING A STACK OF MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS | CLINTON, EVAN GARRETT | 42d overdue |
| 18362014 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AN ARTERIAL PRESSURE | YOON, CHANEL J | 18d overdue |
| 18256872 | METHOD FOR OPERATING IN HOT STAND-BY MODE A SOFC FUEL CELL OR SOEC REACTOR | CONLEY, OI K | 10d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260439 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A NEUTRON ABSORBER IN A FLUID | DAVIS, SHARON M | 168d overdue |
| 18156549 | LIGHT-WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR (LWR), IN PARTICULAR A PRESSURISED WATER REACTOR (PWR) OR BOILING WATER REACTOR (BWR), INCORPORATING AN INTEGRAL, AUTONOMOUS, PASSIVE DECAY HEAT REMOVAL SYSTEM | DAVIS, SHARON M | 149d overdue |
| 17044492 | Method And Device For Laser Welding A First Component To A Second Component | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 118d overdue |
| 18156629 | LIGHT WATER NUCLEAR REACTOR (LWR), IN PARTICULAR PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR (PWR) OR BOILING WATER REACTOR (BWR), WITH A HEAT SINK ON THE GROUND AND INCORPORATING AN AUTONOMOUS DECAY HEAT REMOVAL (DHR) SYSTEM | DAVIS, SHARON M | 110d overdue |
| 18593446 | Nuclear Reactor with Liquid Coolant and Solid Fuel Assemblies, Integrating a System of Evacuation of the Nominal Power with Liquid Metal Bath and Material(s) (MCP) for the Evacuation of the Residual Power in the Event of an Accident | DAVIS, SHARON M | 29d overdue |
| 18945709 | SECURE NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 7d |
| 19424359 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS RIGHTS AND AUTHORIZATIONS | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 18959886 | TRANSMITARRY ANTENNA CELL | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 5 |
| 2893 | 5 |
| 3654 | 3 |
| 2898 | 3 |
| 2817 | 3 |
| 1718 | 2 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2858 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2899 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19424359 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS RIGHTS AND AUTHORIZATIONS | ZHANG, DUAN | 3699 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19083545 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING A SIGMA-DELTA CONVERTER | NGUYEN, LINH V | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19003527 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VARIABLE PRECISION COMPUTING | LEE, CHUN KUAN | 2181 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18959886 | TRANSMITARRY ANTENNA CELL | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18945709 | SECURE NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 2407 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18936248 | POLARIMETRIC CAMERA | CUTLER, ALBERT H | 2637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18912691 | METHOD OF DETECTION OF PARTICLES PRESENT IN A LIQUID | CESE, KENNY A | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18854174 | DIHYDROQUINAZOLINONES EXHIBITING IMPROVED PROTECTIVE ACTIVITY AGAINST INTRACELLULARLY ACTING TOXINS AND INTRACELLULAR VIRUSES AND BACTERIA | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18398343 | BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF AN EFFECTOR | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 3658 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18362014 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AN ARTERIAL PRESSURE | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18259310 | CONTROLLED BOBBIN HOLDER FOR A THREAD WINDING UNIT | JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18259123 | LAYING HEAD FOR A THREAD WINDING UNIT | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18198390 | BASIC MOLECULE-ASSISTED DIRECT BONDING METHOD | GREEN, TELLY D | 2898 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18252163 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DATA ABNORMALITY DETECTION | MANG, VAN C | 2126 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18250908 | ADAPTABLE SAFETY DEVICE ON AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | OHARA, BRIAN R | 1724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18064981 | FLUIDIC COMPONENT AND DEVICE OF FLUIDIC VALVE TYPE FOR ISOLATION | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 16851412 | METHOD OF SELF-ASSEMBLY WITH A HYBRID MOLECULAR BONDING | GAUTHIER, STEVEN B | 2813 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2020 |
| 19120897 | ERGONOMIC CONTROL DEVICE | KHAYER, SOHANA T | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19083806 | LITHIUM NICKEL PHOSPHATE TERNARY GLASSES, METHOD TO OBTAIN THEM AND THEIR USES | DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19037480 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A CATHODE MATERIAL FOR A BATTERY | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18875663 | PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTING DEVICE FOR MEASURING A PARAMETER OF INTEREST IN A MEDIUM | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874904 | VELOCIMETER IN THE MEDIUM INFRARED FOR MEASURING VELOCITY | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18969568 | DEVICE FOR MANIPULATING ITEMS CONTAINED IN A GLOVE BOX WHILE FORMING A DOUBLE SEALED WALL, AND ASSOCIATED GLOVE BOX | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18959808 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A FAILURE OF A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CELL | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18929773 | OPTOMECHANICAL TRANSDUCTION SYSTEM FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROMETRY | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18915671 | HAPTIC AND SOUND INTERFACE INCLUDING AN ARRAY OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS | HERMANN, KIRK W | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18799825 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING A WRAPPING GRID | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18836145 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING EXPERIMENTAL DATA BY MACHINE LEARNING | HUANG, FRANK F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18707446 | NUCLEAR COGENERATION PLANT HAVING A REACTOR WITH AN INDIRECT THERMODYNAMIC CYCLE WITHOUT EXTRACTION OR DISCHARGE OF LIQUID WATER FROM/TO THE ENVIRONMENT | COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE | 3646 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18646254 | CONTACTLESS DEVICE FOR GENERATING COMPRESSION OR TENSION STEPS | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18632562 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE IN BENDING | CARTER, JONATHAN LANGDON | 1713 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18697687 | SYSTEM FOR CONDITIONING A PLURALITY OF STACKS OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SOEC/SOFC SOLID OXIDE CELLS | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18691362 | RECONFIGURABLE-SURFACE DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR DISPLAY FOR DISPLAYING BRAILLE CHARACTERS | ROWLAND, STEVE | 3715 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18690194 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SILICON INGOT FROM SURFACE-OXIDISED SEEDS | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18593446 | Nuclear Reactor with Liquid Coolant and Solid Fuel Assemblies, Integrating a System of Evacuation of the Nominal Power with Liquid Metal Bath and Material(s) (MCP) for the Evacuation of the Residual Power in the Event of an Accident | DAVIS, SHARON M | 3646 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18397259 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OBSERVING FLUORESCENCE OR LUMINESCENCE OF A MOVING PARTICLE | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18394137 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN INTEGRATED DEVICE COMPRISING ANODIC POROUS OXIDE WITH LIMITED ROUGHNESS | MENZ, DOUGLAS M | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18393149 | MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING LARGE CONTACT SURFACES BETWEEN THE CONDUCTION CHANNEL AND THE SOURCE AND DRAIN REGIONS | CHOWDHARY, NIMARTA KAUR | 2898 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18390103 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PHASE CHANGE MEMORY DEVICE | WALL, VINCENT | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18544035 | CREATION OF A TRANSISTOR WITH CLOSE SILICIDE SOURCE AND DRAIN FROM THE CANAL | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18543987 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DOPED TRANSISTOR SOURCE AND DRAIN | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 2814 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18542962 | MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR OF THE FAST NEUTRON REACTOR TYPE, HAVING A VESSEL FILLED WITH INERT LIQUID SALTS AROUND THE REACTOR VESSEL BY WAY OF REACTOR DECAY HEAT REMOVAL (DHR) SYSTEM | DAVIS, SHARON M | 3646 | §103§112DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18541198 | MULTILEVEL RETRO-COUPLING DEVICE | STAHL, MICHAEL J | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18566474 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE COMPRISING A USEFUL LAYER MADE OF SILICON CARBIDE, WITH IMPROVED ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES | JONES, ERIC W | 2892 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18486467 | SIP-TYPE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING SUCH A DEVICE | SARKER-NAG, AKHEE | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18547471 | ANTIBODIES, FRAGMENTS OR DERIVATIVES SPECIFICALLY BINDING TO A PROTEIN ANTIGEN CAPABLE OF BINDING TO NUCLEIC ACIDS AND USES OF SAME | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 3991 | §112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18264502 | GERMANIUM PHOTODIODE WITH OPTIMISED METAL CONTACTS | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18348077 | SILICON MEMBRANE WITH INFRARED TRANSMITTANCE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18260439 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A NEUTRON ABSORBER IN A FLUID | DAVIS, SHARON M | 3646 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 168d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18258380 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A III-N MATERIAL-BASED LAYER | LEE, DA WEI | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 181d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCommissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives has 110 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 59 art units and 102 examiners.
Sharon M Davis has the most, with 5 of Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.