Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sage Electrochromics Inc.

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
75% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 1 80.8% +18.0%
OESTREICH, MITCHELL T 1 73.9% +21.5%
BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R 1 76.2% +11.3%
CROCKETT, RYAN M 1 78.8% +5.6%
WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 1 43.5% +44.6%
COMBER, KEVIN J 1 82.6% +11.6%
KING, GEORGE G 1 58.2% +37.4%
MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 1 63.0% +24.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18451931 CONTROL AND OPERATION OF NON-LIGHT-EMITTING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DEVICES DURING SENSOR FAILURE COMBER, KEVIN J 142d overdue
18669382 Smart Glass Systems Using a Single Pair of Wires for Data and Power Transmission PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 16d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18451931 CONTROL AND OPERATION OF NON-LIGHT-EMITTING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DEVICES DURING SENSOR FAILURE COMBER, KEVIN J 142d overdue
18661312 BUS BAR CONFIGURATION OF AN IGU OESTREICH, MITCHELL T 45d overdue
18591840 Patterned Motherboards BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R 31d overdue
18296147 ELECTROCHEMICAL GLAZING HAVING ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLABLE OPTICAL AND ENERGY-RELATED PROPERTIES WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 5d overdue
17930325 INSULATED GLAZING UNIT INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS MODULE KING, GEORGE G 2d overdue
18669382 Smart Glass Systems Using a Single Pair of Wires for Data and Power Transmission PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 16d
17182874 APPROACHES TO MODIFYING A COLOR OF AN ELECTROCHROMIC STACK IN A TINTED STATE MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 3
2871 2
1783 1
2838 1
1794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18669382 Smart Glass Systems Using a Single Pair of Wires for Data and Power Transmission PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 20, 2024
18661312 BUS BAR CONFIGURATION OF AN IGU OESTREICH, MITCHELL T 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18591840 Patterned Motherboards BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R 2871 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18420592 Smart Glass Power Reuse CROCKETT, RYAN M 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2024
18296147 ELECTROCHEMICAL GLAZING HAVING ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLABLE OPTICAL AND ENERGY-RELATED PROPERTIES WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2023
18451931 CONTROL AND OPERATION OF NON-LIGHT-EMITTING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DEVICES DURING SENSOR FAILURE COMBER, KEVIN J 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 142d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
17930325 INSULATED GLAZING UNIT INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS MODULE KING, GEORGE G 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2022
17182874 APPROACHES TO MODIFYING A COLOR OF AN ELECTROCHROMIC STACK IN A TINTED STATE MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 23, 2021

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