Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Proterra Powered LLC has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is limited to this single pending action. Practitioners should observe that the company's current legal strategy is concentrated within a single administrative silo at the patent office, which may simplify the monitoring of examiner trends and art unit specificities.
VINH P NGUYEN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the total volume of 1 pending actions for the company. The prosecution profile indicates a singular point of contact at the patent office for the current portfolio. Because there is only 1 examiner and 1 art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is entirely centralized. This allows for a direct and consistent communication channel, as there are no other pending matters to coordinate across different examiners or art units. The company's current intellectual property activity is focused on this 1 point of contact, making the outcome of this specific action critical for the portfolio's immediate growth.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, VINH P | 1 | 86.4% | +16.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19020883 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR BATTERY ISOLATION FAULT DIAGNOSIS | NGUYEN, VINH P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19020883 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR BATTERY ISOLATION FAULT DIAGNOSIS | NGUYEN, VINH P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020883 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR BATTERY ISOLATION FAULT DIAGNOSIS | NGUYEN, VINH P | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
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