Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gaf Energy LLC

13 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

2
Hard (15%)
11
Medium (85%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (15%)
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
92% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 4 56.8% +46.3%
PILLAY, DEVINA 4 44.1% +26.7%
CHERN, CHRISTINA 2 38.5% +41.4%
SUN, MICHAEL Y 1 56.5% +26.7%
DINH, BACH T 1 55.2% +32.1%
DEMUREN, BABAJIDE A 1 73.8% +22.2%

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19014988 BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 60d overdue
19053135 RAPID SHUTDOWN DEVICE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES SUN, MICHAEL Y 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (13)

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
18830302 ROOF RIDGE JOINER FOR WIREWAYS OF ROOFING SYSTEMS DEMUREN, BABAJIDE A 437d overdue
17831307 ROOFING MODULE SYSTEM PILLAY, DEVINA 146d overdue
18472856 PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS ON ROOF PLANES PILLAY, DEVINA 145d overdue
18955667 THREE-DIMENSIONAL LAMINATE PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE DINH, BACH T 93d overdue
18506584 PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE SYSTEMS AND METHODS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 71d overdue
19014988 BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 60d overdue
18169718 ROOFING MODULE SYSTEM PILLAY, DEVINA 38d overdue
18467435 HEAT CONDUCTING LAYERS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES CHERN, CHRISTINA 30d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1726 9
1722 2
1728 1
3633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19053135 RAPID SHUTDOWN DEVICE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES SUN, MICHAEL Y 1728 §101 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2025
19024336 PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE WITH INTEGRATED WIREWAY CHERN, CHRISTINA 1722 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
19016769 BASEPLATES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2025
19014988 BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2025
18955667 THREE-DIMENSIONAL LAMINATE PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE DINH, BACH T 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2024
18830302 ROOF RIDGE JOINER FOR WIREWAYS OF ROOFING SYSTEMS DEMUREN, BABAJIDE A 3633 §103 Non-Final OA 437d overdue Pending Sep 10, 2024
18737665 JUMPER MODULE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18420336 PHOTOVOLTAIC SHINGLES WITH TANDEM SOLAR CELLS PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 23, 2024
18506584 PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE SYSTEMS AND METHODS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18472856 PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS ON ROOF PLANES PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Final Rejection 145d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18467435 HEAT CONDUCTING LAYERS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES CHERN, CHRISTINA 1722 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18169718 ROOFING MODULE SYSTEM PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
17831307 ROOFING MODULE SYSTEM PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2022

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