Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pacific Gas And Electric Company currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a concentration of technical subject matter within a few specialized fields. This distribution means that the company's applications are being evaluated under 2 different sets of technical standards at the patent office.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, with each of the 4 pending office actions being reviewed by a different person. LIN, JASON is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This spread of 4 examiners across only 2 art units indicates that while the technical focus is relatively narrow, the company must still navigate the individual styles and preferences of 4 examiners. Practitioners must be prepared to manage 4 separate dialogues, even when the subject matter is concentrated in just 2 technical departments. This requires a versatile approach to prosecution that can address the specific requirements of each examiner while maintaining consistency across the company's Transportation and E-Commerce filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, JASON | 1 | 72.8% | +23.5% |
| FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 1 | 53.7% | +28.5% |
| MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 1 | 63.4% | +27.5% |
| QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 53.3% | +34.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950720 | WIRE DOWN DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 114d overdue |
| 18950906 | SERVERS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATING, INVESTIGATING AND RESOLVING HARMONICS IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER GRID | LIN, JASON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950720 | WIRE DOWN DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 114d overdue |
| 18950906 | SERVERS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATING, INVESTIGATING AND RESOLVING HARMONICS IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER GRID | LIN, JASON | — |
| 18825906 | BACKUP POWER TRANSFER METER | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | — |
| 18502252 | HELICOPTER CONDUCTOR REEL PAYOUT DOLLY | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18950906 | SERVERS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATING, INVESTIGATING AND RESOLVING HARMONICS IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER GRID | LIN, JASON | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18825906 | BACKUP POWER TRANSFER METER | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18502252 | HELICOPTER CONDUCTOR REEL PAYOUT DOLLY | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 17950720 | WIRE DOWN DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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