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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 14 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 60 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution means that each pending case is being evaluated by a different examiner in a different organizational branch of the USPTO. The 2 pending office actions represent a small but technically diverse set of challenges within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, there is no overlap in examiner assignments. The applicant must manage separate prosecution tracks across the 2 distinct art units, preventing any consolidation of legal arguments or examiner interviews. This lack of concentration across the 2 distinct examiners requires a tailored approach for each of the pending matters currently under review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 1 | 73.7% | +18.0% |
| WALDRON, SCOTT A | 1 | 81.1% | +29.2% |
| WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD | 1 | 52.3% | +33.6% |
| MORALES, RICARDO D | 1 | 81.2% | +17.1% |
| CRUM, VIVIAN FLORENCE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| RAHLL, JERRY T | 1 | 89.8% | +8.3% |
| FAYETTE, NATHALIE RENEE | 1 | 96.0% | +5.7% |
| PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 1 | 77.7% | +12.6% |
| AKRAM, IMRAN | 1 | 64.7% | +43.0% |
| DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN | 1 | 82.4% | +7.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444882 | High silicon electrical steel alloys using directed energy deposition | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898090 | Systems, Methods and Tools for Active Wake Control of Wind Turbines | WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD | 9d overdue |
| 18243453 | CHARGE-SENSING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DELTA LAYER TUNNEL JUNCTION | FAYETTE, NATHALIE RENEE | 8d overdue |
| 18101629 | Linear polymers comprising dibenzocyclooctene-based moieties having tunable coefficients of thermal expansion | LISTVOYB, GREGORY | 7d |
| 18069047 | WEARABLE HEALTH MONITORING DEVICE | AGAHI, PUYA | 29d |
| 18393392 | Heterogeneous Integrated UV-IR Ultra-Low Loss Multi-Layer Platform with Electrical Interconnects, Gain, Modulation, Detection, and Nonlinear Optics | RAHLL, JERRY T | 60d |
| 19048375 | ENHANCING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WITH SYMBOLIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS | WALDRON, SCOTT A | — |
| 18403863 | Method for preparation of supervalent metal hydrides | CRUM, VIVIAN FLORENCE | — |
| 18228453 | PREDICTION OF BATTERY FAILURE THROUGH THERMAL SIGNATURES | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898090 | Systems, Methods and Tools for Active Wake Control of Wind Turbines | WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD | 9d overdue |
| 19059376 | Dissimilar material joining via interlocking metasurfaces | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | — |
| 19048375 | ENHANCING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WITH SYMBOLIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS | WALDRON, SCOTT A | — |
| 18444882 | High silicon electrical steel alloys using directed energy deposition | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
| 18228453 | PREDICTION OF BATTERY FAILURE THROUGH THERMAL SIGNATURES | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | — |
| 18141591 | SOLAR-THERMAL CATALYTIC REACTOR | AKRAM, IMRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19059376 | Dissimilar material joining via interlocking metasurfaces | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19048375 | ENHANCING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WITH SYMBOLIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS | WALDRON, SCOTT A | 2156 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18898090 | Systems, Methods and Tools for Active Wake Control of Wind Turbines | WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18444882 | High silicon electrical steel alloys using directed energy deposition | MORALES, RICARDO D | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18403863 | Method for preparation of supervalent metal hydrides | CRUM, VIVIAN FLORENCE | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18393392 | Heterogeneous Integrated UV-IR Ultra-Low Loss Multi-Layer Platform with Electrical Interconnects, Gain, Modulation, Detection, and Nonlinear Optics | RAHLL, JERRY T | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18243453 | CHARGE-SENSING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DELTA LAYER TUNNEL JUNCTION | FAYETTE, NATHALIE RENEE | 2812 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18228453 | PREDICTION OF BATTERY FAILURE THROUGH THERMAL SIGNATURES | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18141591 | SOLAR-THERMAL CATALYTIC REACTOR | AKRAM, IMRAN | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 18298790 | DEEP SMOOTH ETCHING TO REALIZE SCALABLE DEVICES HAVING PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTALS | DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN | 1700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18101629 | Linear polymers comprising dibenzocyclooctene-based moieties having tunable coefficients of thermal expansion | LISTVOYB, GREGORY | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18092373 | Method to Improve Sodium Electrochemical Interfaces of Sodium Ion-Conducting Ceramics | ESSEX, STEPHAN J | 1727 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2023 |
| 18069047 | WEARABLE HEALTH MONITORING DEVICE | AGAHI, PUYA | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17895285 | Ridged 3-dimensional battery electrodes for enhancing rate capability | BAKHTIARI, NIKI | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
| 17888846 | Interlocking Metasurfaces | UTT, ETHAN A | 1783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
| 17650056 | MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS FOR BIOSENSING AND DRUG DELIVERY | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 17190050 | CONVERSION OF SUGARS TO IONIC LIQUIDS | IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2021 |
| 15669587 | RECHARGEABLE COPPER OXIDE ELECTRODES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS | PARK, LISA S | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 04, 2017 |
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