Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oxford Photovoltaics Limited maintains an active presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 3 pending office actions. This volume of activity suggests a multi-faceted approach to securing its photovoltaic innovations. The company is currently managing several distinct threads of prosecution simultaneously through these 3 pending office actions.
The workload is distributed among 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that while the company's technology is concentrated within a few specialized areas, it is being scrutinized by multiple sets of eyes. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings may cover different chemical compositions or material applications within the broader sector. This distribution across 2 distinct art units provides a measure of technical diversity.
AYAD, TAMIR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are multiple pending actions in total, no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active cases. This distribution reduces the impact of any single examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio, requiring a diversified strategy that addresses the unique requirements of different officials. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending action for the lead examiner reflects this balanced distribution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +48.1% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.9% |
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17298279 | LONG-TERM STABLE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 79d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17413774 | MULTI-JUNCTION OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING DEVICE INTERLAYER | AYAD, TAMIR | 43d overdue |
| 17298279 | LONG-TERM STABLE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 79d |
| 17287403 | MULTI-JUNCTION DEVICE PRODUCTION PROCESS | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 2 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17413774 | MULTI-JUNCTION OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING DEVICE INTERLAYER | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2021 |
| 17298279 | LONG-TERM STABLE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | May 28, 2021 |
| 17287403 | MULTI-JUNCTION DEVICE PRODUCTION PROCESS | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1722 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialOxford Photovoltaics Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Tamir Ayad has the most, with 1 of Oxford Photovoltaics Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
