Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
National Engineering Research Center Of Advanced Energy Storage Materials (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BARBEE, MANUEL L, who is also identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity.
The presence of 1 pending office action across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution profile. Practitioners should note that the outcome for this portfolio depends on the interaction with BARBEE, MANUEL L within that single art unit. Because there are no other pending matters, the company's current experience in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is limited to this relationship with the examiner.
With 1 pending office action, the center does not currently face the complexity of managing multiple examiners or art units. The 1 distinct examiner, BARBEE, MANUEL L, handles the entirety of the pending workload. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical arguments remain focused on the examination standards relevant to the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBEE, MANUEL L | 1 | 81.7% | +13.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557038 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY STORAGE POWER STATION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORK | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557038 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY STORAGE POWER STATION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORK | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18557038 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY STORAGE POWER STATION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORK | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 2857 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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