Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Direct Energy Partners International Corporation

2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Direct Energy Partners International Corporation has 2 pending office actions currently active. The prosecution of these matters involves 2 distinct examiners. This ratio of examiners to actions suggests that the workload is not consolidated under the assigned reviewers. XU, PETER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With 0 distinct art units recorded, the organizational placement of these filings is not specified. The presence of distinct examiners indicates that the applicant must address different perspectives across their pending office actions.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
100% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
XU, PETER 1 0.0% +0.0%
CAMPBELL, SHANNON S 1 30.0% +8.6%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18844813 CONTROLLER FOR MODULAR POWER SYSTEMS XU, PETER —
18280465 METHOD FOR SCHEMATIC DESIGN OF MODULAR POWER SYSTEMS CAMPBELL, SHANNON S —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18844813 CONTROLLER FOR MODULAR POWER SYSTEMS XU, PETER — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2024
18280465 METHOD FOR SCHEMATIC DESIGN OF MODULAR POWER SYSTEMS CAMPBELL, SHANNON S — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 05, 2023

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