Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ctf Solar GmbH has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focused activity indicates that the company's immediate success in the Chemistry & Materials field is tied to a single application. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for their current research and development efforts.
TRINH, THANH TRUC is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the company's full pending workload, as there is only 1 pending office action total. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the tendencies of TRINH, THANH TRUC. There are no other pending office actions or distinct examiners involved to diversify the company's current prosecution risk at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872288 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CDTE BASED THIN FILM SOLAR CELL WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE WITHIN THE CDTE-BASED ABSORBER LAYER AND CDTE BASED THIN FILM SOLAR CELL WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872288 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CDTE BASED THIN FILM SOLAR CELL WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE WITHIN THE CDTE-BASED ABSORBER LAYER AND CDTE BASED THIN FILM SOLAR CELL WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872288 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CDTE BASED THIN FILM SOLAR CELL WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE WITHIN THE CDTE-BASED ABSORBER LAYER AND CDTE BASED THIN FILM SOLAR CELL WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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