Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mpower Technology Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is under the review of a different official. The workload is spread across 2 distinct art units. This structure shows that the 3 distinct examiners are operating within a narrow technical range, suggesting some technical overlap despite the individual examiner assignments.
GHEYAS, SYED I is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the portfolio is characterized by a lack of examiner concentration. However, the presence of only 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are being evaluated within a limited set of patent office groups. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 3 distinct examiners while maintaining a cohesive strategy across the 2 art units involved in these pending matters. The even distribution of the 3 pending actions across the examiners ensures that no single official is overburdened.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHEYAS, SYED I | 1 | 82.5% | +3.9% |
| DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1 | 23.0% | +25.2% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.2% | +27.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579827 | THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC AND RADIATION ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS | KANG, TAE-SIK | 4d overdue |
| 18740143 | IN-SITU RAPID ANNEALING AND OPERATION OF SOLAR CELLS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS | DAM, DUSTIN Q | 39d |
| 18809054 | IN-SITU RAPID ANNEALING AND OPERATION OF SOLAR CELLS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS | GHEYAS, SYED I | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579827 | THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC AND RADIATION ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS | KANG, TAE-SIK | 4d overdue |
| 18740143 | IN-SITU RAPID ANNEALING AND OPERATION OF SOLAR CELLS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS | DAM, DUSTIN Q | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809054 | IN-SITU RAPID ANNEALING AND OPERATION OF SOLAR CELLS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS | GHEYAS, SYED I | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18740143 | IN-SITU RAPID ANNEALING AND OPERATION OF SOLAR CELLS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS | DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18579827 | THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC AND RADIATION ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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