Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electric Power Research Institute Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that the company's prosecution progress is not reliant on 1 official's review. The workload is further spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical subject matter.
The busiest examiner, DINH, BACH T, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action is part of the 2 pending office actions for the company. The distribution of actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio is experiencing a broad engagement with the patent office rather than a concentrated push in 1 specific sub-field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.4% | +31.3% |
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727060 | Methodology to Enable the Use of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys and Precipitation Strengthen Nickel-Based Alloys for Advanced Energy Systems | BOCHNA, DAVID | 259d overdue |
| 19207571 | BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE TEST METHOD | DINH, BACH T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727060 | Methodology to Enable the Use of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys and Precipitation Strengthen Nickel-Based Alloys for Advanced Energy Systems | BOCHNA, DAVID | 259d overdue |
| 19207571 | BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE TEST METHOD | DINH, BACH T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207571 | BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE TEST METHOD | DINH, BACH T | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18727060 | Methodology to Enable the Use of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys and Precipitation Strengthen Nickel-Based Alloys for Advanced Energy Systems | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 259d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
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