Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
First Solar Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating wide examiner dispersion and some reuse of art units. MOWLA, GOLAM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
No listed examiner has more than 1 pending matter in the available data. That pattern favors a matter-by-matter prosecution plan, with art-unit grouping used to identify common technical or procedural issues. The five-unit structure can help coordinate internal review without assuming that a response strategy for one examiner will apply across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOWLA, GOLAM | 1 | 62.1% | +28.0% |
| BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1 | 49.4% | +34.3% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 49.3% | +31.2% |
| PILLAY, DEVINA | 1 | 44.4% | +25.5% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.4% | +19.8% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.9% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 67.8% | +36.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708334 | Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices | PILLAY, DEVINA | 78d overdue |
| 18399028 | Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 41d |
| 19023233 | Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making | MOWLA, GOLAM | 56d |
| 18628285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTION | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| 18553888 | METHODS FOR PURIFYING PEROVSKITE PRECURSORS AND IMPROVED PEROVSKITES MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | HOU, FRANK S | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708334 | Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices | PILLAY, DEVINA | 78d overdue |
| 18914841 | Buffer Layers for Photovoltaic Devices with Group V Doping | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 38d overdue |
| 18399028 | Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 41d |
| 19023233 | Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making | MOWLA, GOLAM | 56d |
| 18825810 | LAYER STRUCTURES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME | WHITE, SADIE | — |
| 18628285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTION | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| 18553888 | METHODS FOR PURIFYING PEROVSKITE PRECURSORS AND IMPROVED PEROVSKITES MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | HOU, FRANK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 2 |
| 1726 | 2 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19023233 | Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making | MOWLA, GOLAM | 1721 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18914841 | Buffer Layers for Photovoltaic Devices with Group V Doping | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1728 | DP | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18825810 | LAYER STRUCTURES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18708334 | Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices | PILLAY, DEVINA | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18628285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTION | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18399028 | Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18553888 | METHODS FOR PURIFYING PEROVSKITE PRECURSORS AND IMPROVED PEROVSKITES MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFirst Solar Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Golam Mowla has the most, with 1 of First Solar Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
