Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Oxford Photovoltaics Limited maintains a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. Prosecution is further distributed across 3 distinct art units, which suggests the company's technology may span multiple specialized sub-sectors within the broader field.
WHITE, SADIE is the busiest examiner for this company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This indicates that even the busiest examiner manages only a fraction of the total 4 pending office actions. For a practitioner, the ratio of 4 distinct examiners to the total pending count implies a lack of examiner overlap. Each application likely faces a unique perspective during prosecution rather than a unified examiner approach.
With 3 distinct art units involved, the portfolio requires navigation of multiple sets of technical standards. This distribution across 4 distinct examiners means that the company cannot rely on a single relationship or consistent examiner history to predict outcomes. The strategy for Oxford Photovoltaics Limited must remain flexible to accommodate the diverse requirements of the various examiners and art units involved in the Chemistry & Materials space.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 48.8% | +31.6% |
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +47.9% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.8% |
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.3% |
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 4 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 |
| 17436843 | PASSIVATION METHOD | WHITE, SADIE | — |
| 17287403 | MULTI-JUNCTION DEVICE PRODUCTION PROCESS | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 2 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17436843 | PASSIVATION METHOD | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2021 |
| 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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