Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Epishine AB currently holds 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. TRAN, UYEN M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending action.
The alignment of the workload within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are concentrated in a specific area of Chemistry & Materials. For practitioners, the prosecution process is centralized under TRAN, UYEN M, making this examiner's tendencies a primary factor in the portfolio's progress. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will provide significant insight into the company's standing within the patent office.
Monitoring the specific interactions with this examiner is necessary for predicting future allowance or rejection trends. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate success is tied to the outcome of this 1 matter. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit to achieve a favorable result.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, UYEN M | 1 | 31.2% | +39.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711862 | A SOLAR CELL MODULE AND A SOLAR CELL PANEL | TRAN, UYEN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711862 | A SOLAR CELL MODULE AND A SOLAR CELL PANEL | TRAN, UYEN M | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEpishine AB has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Uyen M Tran has the most, with 1 of Epishine AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
