Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Franklinwh Energy Technology Inc. manages a company patent portfolio with 3 pending office actions. These actions are located within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units. This distribution means each pending matter is assigned to a different art unit, suggesting that the company's energy technologies are classified across several different technical areas within the semiconductor and optics field.
There are 3 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution of these 3 pending office actions. FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution results in a ratio of 1 examiner to each pending action. For practitioners, this indicates that each of the 3 matters will be reviewed independently by a different examiner. The diversity of 3 examiners across 3 art units for 3 actions shows a highly decentralized prosecution landscape for the company's current filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 1 | 80.1% | +12.7% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
| SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 1 | 29.5% | +54.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350435 | METHOD FOR FIXING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PIN | TRINH, MINH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18096890 | HOUSEHOLD ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM IN AN OFF-GRID STATE AND BLACK START METHOD THEREFOR | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 8d overdue |
| 19204345 | METER SOCKET ADAPTER, ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND HOUSEHOLD MICROGRID | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18096890 | HOUSEHOLD ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM IN AN OFF-GRID STATE AND BLACK START METHOD THEREFOR | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 8d overdue |
| 19204345 | METER SOCKET ADAPTER, ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND HOUSEHOLD MICROGRID | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19204345 | METER SOCKET ADAPTER, ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND HOUSEHOLD MICROGRID | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 2836 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 18350435 | METHOD FOR FIXING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PIN | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18096890 | HOUSEHOLD ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM IN AN OFF-GRID STATE AND BLACK START METHOD THEREFOR | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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