Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sage Electrochromics Inc. currently has 9 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, suggesting that the company is navigating a variety of examiner perspectives. Despite the high number of examiners, the work is concentrated within 3 distinct art units, which implies a focused technical scope for the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, WILSON, PAISLEY L, is managing 2 pending office actions. The concentration of 9 pending actions within 3 art units suggests that the underlying technology is being reviewed by specialized groups at the patent office. This leaves the remaining pending office actions to be handled by other distinct examiners.
For the practitioner, this data indicates that while individual examiner preferences will vary, the overarching trends within the distinct art units will be critical to the portfolio's success. The presence of 8 distinct examiners across the pending office actions means that almost every active application is being reviewed by a different person, requiring a flexible approach to prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, PAISLEY L | 2 | 59.2% | +34.5% |
| YE, LIN | 1 | 34.2% | +27.7% |
| PARBADIA, BALRAM T | 1 | 74.8% | +20.2% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.7% | +17.9% |
| CASS, JEAN PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +25.5% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +44.5% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.8% | +37.6% |
| MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1 | 63.6% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669382 | Smart Glass Systems Using a Single Pair of Wires for Data and Power Transmission | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 16d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18451931 | CONTROL AND OPERATION OF NON-LIGHT-EMITTING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DEVICES DURING SENSOR FAILURE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 142d overdue |
| 17930325 | INSULATED GLAZING UNIT INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS MODULE | KING, GEORGE G | 2d overdue |
| 18941073 | GRADIENT ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAID DEVICE | PARBADIA, BALRAM T | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18451931 | CONTROL AND OPERATION OF NON-LIGHT-EMITTING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DEVICES DURING SENSOR FAILURE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 142d 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 |
| 18999856 | Conductor for Connecting Multiple Busbars in an Insulated Glazing Unit | YE, LIN | — |
| 18941073 | GRADIENT ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAID DEVICE | PARBADIA, BALRAM T | — |
| 18824801 | INTEGRATED WINDOW SENSORS | WILSON, PAISLEY L | — |
| 18824798 | Smart Glass System Pane Mapping | WILSON, PAISLEY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999856 | Conductor for Connecting Multiple Busbars in an Insulated Glazing Unit | YE, LIN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18941073 | GRADIENT ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAID DEVICE | PARBADIA, BALRAM T | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18824801 | INTEGRATED WINDOW SENSORS | WILSON, PAISLEY L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18824798 | Smart Glass System Pane Mapping | WILSON, PAISLEY L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18420579 | Power Allocation for Smart Glass | CASS, JEAN PAUL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18296147 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GLAZING HAVING ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLABLE OPTICAL AND ENERGY-RELATED PROPERTIES | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §112 | 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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 142d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 17930325 | INSULATED GLAZING UNIT INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS MODULE | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §102§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 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2021 |
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