Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Omco Solar LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These filings are localized within a distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. The pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each examiner is responsible for exactly their assigned matters in this portfolio. This structure for the active matters allows for a focused approach within the Chemistry & Materials field while interacting with multiple perspectives from the examiners assigned.
MUHAMMAD IJAZ is the busiest examiner for Omco Solar LLC, with 1 pending office action under review. The presence of examiners within a single art unit suggests that while the technology is concentrated, the prosecution is being handled by different individuals. With 2 pending office actions and a distinct art unit, the company's current activity is confined to a specific department. MUHAMMAD IJAZ and the other examiner are each responsible for their assigned matters, ensuring that the Chemistry & Materials portfolio receives individual attention from different officials. This distribution of the workload to the busiest examiner helps manage the 1 pending office action effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.2% | +24.6% |
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.1% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207228 | Solar Tracker Bearing Apparatus | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19030894 | Snow Removal Method for Solar Tracker Installation | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207228 | Solar Tracker Bearing Apparatus | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19030894 | Snow Removal Method for Solar Tracker Installation | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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