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
Planted Solar Inc. is currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, where it has 1 pending office action. This action indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a specific set of claims or a single patent application. The portfolio's activity level is currently low, which may be typical for a specialized or emerging technology company focusing on a core innovation.
The prosecution landscape involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's innovations are being reviewed within a single technical niche. For the applicant, this means that the prosecution strategy is simplified, as there is only one examiner's feedback to address and one art unit's standards to meet, which can reduce the time and cost associated with patent acquisition.
MERSHON, JAYNE L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing the busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, MERSHON, JAYNE L is the only official currently reviewing the company's work. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will determine the immediate direction of the company's patenting efforts in the Chemistry & Materials sector and its ability to protect its solar-related chemical processes.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1 | 66.5% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOLAR POWER PLANT ASSEMBLY | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOLAR POWER PLANT ASSEMBLY | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18231057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOLAR POWER PLANT ASSEMBLY | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1721 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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