Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lightyear Layer Ipco B V maintains 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and distinct art units, showing a distribution of the portfolio across different examination groups. This ratio between pending actions and examiners indicates that no single individual currently manages a majority of the company's active cases. The involvement of multiple technical divisions suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated across various specialized groups.
DAM, DUSTIN Q is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is the same as the number of examiners, this busiest examiner handles a minority of the active workload. The 1 pending office action under this examiner represents a single component of the company's active pipeline. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate the specific preferences of various officials simultaneously within the Chemistry & Materials sector. DAM, DUSTIN Q provides a perspective currently shaping the company's intellectual property.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1 | 23.0% | +25.2% |
| TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1 | 53.0% | +25.8% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038109 | SOLAR PANEL WITH A COMPOSITE LAMINATE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 22d overdue |
| 18555833 | METHOD FOR LAMINATING SOLAR CELLS | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275877 | FOIL FOR USE WITH A DOUBLE CURVED SOLAR PANEL | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 35d overdue |
| 18038109 | SOLAR PANEL WITH A COMPOSITE LAMINATE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 22d overdue |
| 18555833 | METHOD FOR LAMINATING SOLAR CELLS | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555833 | METHOD FOR LAMINATING SOLAR CELLS | DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18275877 | FOIL FOR USE WITH A DOUBLE CURVED SOLAR PANEL | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18038109 | SOLAR PANEL WITH A COMPOSITE LAMINATE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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