Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Inergy Holdings LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SUN, MICHAEL Y, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. The company's prosecution activity is entirely contained within 1 distinct art unit.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner indicates a streamlined prosecution environment. Because SUN, MICHAEL Y oversees the pending office action, the applicant can dedicate their resources to addressing the specific concerns of this examiner. This avoids the need to reconcile different examination styles or conflicting requirements that can arise when multiple examiners are involved.
Additionally, the focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical scope for the company's current patent applications. Navigating the art unit allows the legal team to develop a precise understanding of the examination trends and prior art preferences prevalent in that specific section of the USPTO. The pending office action serves as the primary point of contact between the company and the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.1% | +26.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802804 | MODULAR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PRODUCTION SYSTEM | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 23d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802804 | MODULAR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PRODUCTION SYSTEM | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18802804 | MODULAR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PRODUCTION SYSTEM | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
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