Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Dracula Technologies is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is notably fragmented, as these 3 pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and distinct art units. This means that every active matter for the company is being reviewed by a different person in a different administrative group, requiring a highly individualized approach for each application. The pending office actions reflect the technical challenges within the Chemistry & Materials field.
ELI S MEKHLIN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since each of the distinct examiners is responsible for a busiest examiner pending office action, the workload is perfectly distributed. The lack of overlap across the distinct art units suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations are being categorized into diverse technical niches at the patent office. Practitioners must manage the distinct examiners simultaneously, each operating within a different administrative environment. This requires a flexible strategy that can account for the varying standards and examination styles across the separate units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHLIN, ELI S | 1 | 60.3% | +48.2% |
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.3% |
| CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 42.2% | +7.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878555 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878552 | ORGANIC TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODE FOR REPLACEMENT OF THE ITO ELECTRODE IN INDOOR-COMPATIBLE ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES | MEKHLIN, ELI S | — |
| 18878555 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878552 | ORGANIC TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODE FOR REPLACEMENT OF THE ITO ELECTRODE IN INDOOR-COMPATIBLE ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES | MEKHLIN, ELI S | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18878555 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 17787291 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A | 2815 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
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