Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Overview Energy Inc. has 2 pending office actions in its portfolio. These matters are classified under the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is highly concentrated, as there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved in these cases.
DINH, BACH T is the busiest examiner for this company, handling 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that the examiner is responsible for the total of 2 pending office actions in the portfolio. This level of concentration provides a point of contact for the company's current patent applications.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the pending actions indicates a unified prosecution environment. A practitioner working on this portfolio would only need to navigate the specific requirements and tendencies of the assigned examiner. This focus within the Chemistry & Materials sector simplifies the management of the company's current patent interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.4% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345343 | SPACE-BASED SOLAR POWER SYSTEM | DINH, BACH T | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18345343 | SPACE-BASED SOLAR POWER SYSTEM | DINH, BACH T | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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