Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 10 pending office actions are assigned to 8 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity occurs across 6 distinct art units. This distribution across 6 distinct art units indicates that the cases are spread across several technical groups.
AYAD, TAMIR is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 2 pending office actions. The 2 pending office actions under AYAD, TAMIR represent the highest concentration of work for any examiner in this portfolio. The 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units provide the technical review for the portfolio.
Practitioners should note the specific requirements of the 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units involved. The 10 pending office actions represent the current volume of ongoing legal work. AYAD, TAMIR and the other examiners manage the prosecution for the company. The Chemistry & Materials technology area is the focus for these filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYAD, TAMIR | 2 | 42.3% | +48.1% |
| PILLAY, DEVINA | 2 | 44.4% | +25.5% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 49.3% | +31.2% |
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.5% | +31.1% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.2% |
| BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1 | 49.4% | +34.3% |
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669336 | Solar Cell With Cell Architecture Designed For Reduced Carrier Recombination | PILLAY, DEVINA | 70d overdue |
| 18665547 | Wire Clip Design for Cable Management | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| 18761032 | PROTECTION COATING FOR SOLAR CELL WAFERS | WHITE, SADIE | 35d overdue |
| 17972432 | SOLAR CELLS HAVING JUNCTIONS RETRACTED FROM CLEAVED EDGES | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 35d overdue |
| 18674200 | WIRE-BASED METALLIZATION FOR SOLAR CELLS | DINH, BACH T | 21d |
| 18230498 | METALLIZATION STRUCTURES FOR SOLAR CELLS | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 27d |
| 19286529 | RIBBONS FOR USE IN SHINGLED SOLAR CELLS | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17870268 | FRONT CONTACT SOLAR CELL WITH FORMED EMITTER | PILLAY, DEVINA | 111d overdue |
| 18669336 | Solar Cell With Cell Architecture Designed For Reduced Carrier Recombination | PILLAY, DEVINA | 70d overdue |
| 18411556 | BONDED WIRE FOR INTERCONNECTING SOLAR CELLS | AYAD, TAMIR | 67d overdue |
| 18665547 | Wire Clip Design for Cable Management | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| 18761032 | PROTECTION COATING FOR SOLAR CELL WAFERS | WHITE, SADIE | 35d overdue |
| 17972432 | SOLAR CELLS HAVING JUNCTIONS RETRACTED FROM CLEAVED EDGES | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 35d overdue |
| 18088635 | INTERLOCKABLE AND SLIDABLE MODULE CLIP PIECE FOR MODULE PACKAGING | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 30d overdue |
| 18674200 | WIRE-BASED METALLIZATION FOR SOLAR CELLS | DINH, BACH T | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 5 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19286529 | RIBBONS FOR USE IN SHINGLED SOLAR CELLS | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 18761032 | PROTECTION COATING FOR SOLAR CELL WAFERS | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18674200 | WIRE-BASED METALLIZATION FOR SOLAR CELLS | DINH, BACH T | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18669336 | Solar Cell With Cell Architecture Designed For Reduced Carrier Recombination | PILLAY, DEVINA | 1726 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18665547 | Wire Clip Design for Cable Management | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18411556 | BONDED WIRE FOR INTERCONNECTING SOLAR CELLS | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18230498 | METALLIZATION STRUCTURES FOR SOLAR CELLS | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1728 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18088635 | INTERLOCKABLE AND SLIDABLE MODULE CLIP PIECE FOR MODULE PACKAGING | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 26, 2022 |
| 17972432 | SOLAR CELLS HAVING JUNCTIONS RETRACTED FROM CLEAVED EDGES | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1722 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17870268 | FRONT CONTACT SOLAR CELL WITH FORMED EMITTER | PILLAY, DEVINA | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMaxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Tamir Ayad has the most, with 2 of Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
