Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shoals Technologies Group LLC currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, yet all matters are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is dealing with multiple individuals, the technological focus remains confined to a single administrative division of the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J, is responsible for a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This shows that the workload is split, with each examiner handling a single matter. For the practitioner, this suggests a need to align arguments with the standards of the assigned art unit while tailoring communication to different examiners. The consistency in the art unit may lead to similar prior art citations across the pending actions during the examination phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 1 | 91.5% | +10.2% |
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
| FANTU, YALKEW | 1 | 80.2% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521934 | EV CHARGER SYSTEM POWER PLATFORM | FANTU, YALKEW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749385 | CONNECTOR CAP | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739127 | LEAD ASSEMBLY FOR CONNECTING SOLAR PANEL ARRAYS TO INVERTER | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 3d overdue |
| 18749385 | CONNECTOR CAP | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | — |
| 18521934 | EV CHARGER SYSTEM POWER PLATFORM | FANTU, YALKEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749385 | CONNECTOR CAP | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18739127 | LEAD ASSEMBLY FOR CONNECTING SOLAR PANEL ARRAYS TO INVERTER | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18521934 | EV CHARGER SYSTEM POWER PLATFORM | FANTU, YALKEW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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