Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nevados Engineering Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are both assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical and administrative concentration.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SUN, MICHAEL Y, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, SUN, MICHAEL Y is handling the entire pending workload for the company. The concentration of all 2 pending office actions with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly unified prosecution strategy for the company's chemistry and materials filings. This arrangement allows for a consistent dialogue with a single examiner, which can be advantageous for maintaining uniformity across multiple applications in the same technical field. Practitioners should note that the company's current chemistry prosecution depends entirely on the review of SUN, MICHAEL Y.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 2 | 57.1% | +26.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444015 | VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 18433077 | VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444015 | VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 18433077 | VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18444015 | VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18433077 | VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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