Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. has 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, meaning that each examiner is currently handling a matter for the company. The prosecution activity is spread across 5 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials field. This distribution across 5 distinct art units indicates that the company's solar technologies are being evaluated by different specialized groups.
WHITE, SADIE is listed as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the workload is split among the examiners, as no examiner has more than 1 pending action. The total pending actions are thus managed by different individuals, which prevents any examiner's habits from defining the company's overall prosecution experience. For practitioners, this suggests a need to monitor various examiner styles. The data reflects a portfolio where the prosecution effort is distributed across the art units and examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILLAY, DEVINA | 2 | 44.2% | +25.9% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 48.8% | +31.6% |
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.4% | +31.3% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.3% |
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +47.9% |
| BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1 | 49.4% | +34.3% |
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | 4 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | §103Other | 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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