Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

First Solar Inc.

9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (78%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§102 only1 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (11%)
No statute on record2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MOWLA, GOLAM 3 61.3% +28.9%
DINH, BACH T 1 55.2% +32.1%
KANG, TAE-SIK 1 58.0% +27.2%
BUCK, LINDSEY A 1 49.1% +34.2%
WHITE, SADIE 1 48.7% +32.7%
PILLAY, DEVINA 1 44.1% +26.7%
TRINH, THANH TRUC 1 22.0% +11.5%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18399028 Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials TRINH, THANH TRUC 41d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
19030859 PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE WITH TRANSPARENT TUNNEL JUNCTION DINH, BACH T 26d overdue
18723069 Cadmium Selenide Based Photovoltaic Devices And Methods For Forming The Same WHITE, SADIE 9d
19076623 Transparent Conducting Layers and Photovoltaic Devices Including the Same MOWLA, GOLAM 15d
19023272 PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND METHOD OF MAKING KANG, TAE-SIK 16d
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1721 4
1726 3
1728 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19076623 Transparent Conducting Layers and Photovoltaic Devices Including the Same MOWLA, GOLAM 1721 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 11, 2025
19030859 PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE WITH TRANSPARENT TUNNEL JUNCTION DINH, BACH T 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
19023272 PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND METHOD OF MAKING KANG, TAE-SIK 1728 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 15, 2025
19023233 Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making MOWLA, GOLAM 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jan 15, 2025
19006785 Photovoltaic Devices Including An Interfacial Layer MOWLA, GOLAM 1721 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Dec 31, 2024
18914841 Buffer Layers for Photovoltaic Devices with Group V Doping BUCK, LINDSEY A 1728 Other Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2024
18723069 Cadmium Selenide Based Photovoltaic Devices And Methods For Forming The Same WHITE, SADIE 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18708334 Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18399028 Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials TRINH, THANH TRUC 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 28, 2023

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