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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut Für Solarenergieforschung GmbH has 1 pending office action currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current legal efforts. The data indicates 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the active case is being handled by a specific technical department within the patent office. This focused activity reflects a very specific and limited scope for the company's current prosecution pipeline in the chemistry and materials field.
SUN, MICHAEL Y is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because SUN, MICHAEL Y is the only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent prospects are determined by this individual's assessment. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner for the total 1 pending office action means that the company's immediate intellectual property growth is entirely dependent on the resolution of this one specific case. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be perfectly aligned with the specific preferences of SUN, MICHAEL Y to ensure a successful outcome within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19113610 | SOLAR MODULE WITH THREE-TERMINAL TANDEM SOLAR CELLS | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19113610 | SOLAR MODULE WITH THREE-TERMINAL TANDEM SOLAR CELLS | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
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