Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
37 pending office actions • 20 art units • 36 examiners • 0 of 37 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 93 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siemens Energy AG currently has 36 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 36 pending office actions are handled by 36 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single case. The portfolio is distributed across 19 distinct art units, suggesting a wide range of technical focuses. CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The 36 distinct examiners involved provide a broad base of individual perspectives for the 36 pending office actions. This distribution across 19 distinct art units requires the company to adapt to many different examination styles within Chemistry & Materials. CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE, with 1 pending office action, holds the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the 36 pending office actions for consistency across the 19 distinct art units.
The 19 distinct art units represent a significant variety of technical examination standards that the company must meet. With 36 pending office actions and 36 distinct examiners, the prosecution is perfectly decentralized. CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE is identified as the busiest examiner despite only having 1 pending office action, reflecting the even distribution of work across the 36 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (8%) |
| §103 only | 13 (35%) |
| §102 only | 1 (3%) |
| §112 only | 2 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 17 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 2 | 34.8% | +40.3% |
| CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 1 | 78.5% | +22.8% |
| AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 1 | 83.9% | +13.7% |
| PARRIES, DRU M | 1 | 62.9% | +13.4% |
| CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1 | 70.6% | +11.6% |
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 80.6% | +19.7% |
| REID JR, CHARLES H | 1 | 69.0% | +24.3% |
| ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P | 1 | 85.8% | +17.6% |
| DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | 1 | 87.9% | +10.9% |
| SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 1 | 46.1% | +48.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19163048 | ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM COMPRISING AN ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND A RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | — |
| 18997608 | SUBSTATION WITH POWER VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER CONNECTED THROUGH CIRCUIT DEVICE TO HIGH OR EXTRA HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| 18862634 | ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND PLANT NETWORK COMPRISING AN ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND A RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT | DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274998 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE SKID COMPONENT SYSTEM | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 26d overdue |
| 18854525 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND PROGNOSIS SYSTEM | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 2d overdue |
| 18851710 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH TURBINE VANE CARRIER COOLING FLOW PATH | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 19d |
| 18833424 | ELECTRODE FIBRE, ELECTRODE, ELECTROLYSIS CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE ELECTRODE FIBRE AND THE ELECTRODE | WILKINS III, HARRY D | 40d |
| 17787127 | SCANNING STRATEGY FOR VOLUME SUPPORT IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | MILLS JR., JOE E | 54d |
| 18269552 | SUPPORT STRATEGY FOR THIN-WALLED ADDITIVE STRUCTURE | HEVEY, JOHN A | 60d |
| 19166678 | UNIT COMPRISING A COLLECTION TANK | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | — |
| 19146544 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR AN ENERGY SUPPLY DEVICE IN AN ISLAND GRID, AND ENERGY SUPPLY DEVICE | PARRIES, DRU M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854525 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND PROGNOSIS SYSTEM | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 2d overdue |
| 19166678 | UNIT COMPRISING A COLLECTION TANK | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | — |
| 19163048 | ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM COMPRISING AN ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND A RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | — |
| 19146544 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR AN ENERGY SUPPLY DEVICE IN AN ISLAND GRID, AND ENERGY SUPPLY DEVICE | PARRIES, DRU M | — |
| 18998185 | SUPERSONIC DIFFUSER FOR TURBOMACHINERY ARRANGED TO IMPART THERMAL ENERGY TO A PROCESS FLUID | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — |
| 18997608 | SUBSTATION WITH POWER VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER CONNECTED THROUGH CIRCUIT DEVICE TO HIGH OR EXTRA HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| 18874130 | SYSTEM COMBINATION COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEMS AND A POWER SUPPLY SOURCE | REID JR, CHARLES H | — |
| 18874104 | LOW POWER INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMER (LPIT) IN CONICAL CONNECTOR | ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 2 |
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1735 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19166678 | UNIT COMPRISING A COLLECTION TANK | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19163048 | ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM COMPRISING AN ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND A RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19146544 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR AN ENERGY SUPPLY DEVICE IN AN ISLAND GRID, AND ENERGY SUPPLY DEVICE | PARRIES, DRU M | 2836 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 18998185 | SUPERSONIC DIFFUSER FOR TURBOMACHINERY ARRANGED TO IMPART THERMAL ENERGY TO A PROCESS FLUID | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18997608 | SUBSTATION WITH POWER VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER CONNECTED THROUGH CIRCUIT DEVICE TO HIGH OR EXTRA HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18874130 | SYSTEM COMBINATION COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEMS AND A POWER SUPPLY SOURCE | REID JR, CHARLES H | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18874104 | LOW POWER INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMER (LPIT) IN CONICAL CONNECTOR | ALEJNIKOV JR, ROBERT P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18862634 | ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND PLANT NETWORK COMPRISING AN ELECTROLYSIS PLANT AND A RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT | DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18854525 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND PROGNOSIS SYSTEM | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2024 |
| 18851710 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH TURBINE VANE CARRIER COOLING FLOW PATH | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18851123 | INSPECTION DEVICE | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18793761 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING ENERGY CONVERSION INSTALLATION SERVICE MEASURES, AND ENERGY CONVERSION INSTALLATION | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 03, 2024 |
| 18833424 | ELECTRODE FIBRE, ELECTRODE, ELECTROLYSIS CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE ELECTRODE FIBRE AND THE ELECTRODE | WILKINS III, HARRY D | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18729575 | 3D SCREEN PRINTING PRINTER AND 3D SCREEN PRINTING METHOD | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18729193 | System having a gas seal and method for operating the system | WALTON, CHESIREE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18727082 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A CONTROL NETWORK, AND CONTROL NETWORK, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | CHUNG, MONG-SHUNE | 2118 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2024 |
| 18725903 | SWITCHING DEVICE WITH AN ISOLATING OR EARTHING FUNCTION | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18709489 | METHOD SEQUENCE FOR AUTOMATED NONDESTRUCTIVE MATERIAL TESTING | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2024 |
| 18699345 | RADIAL COMPRESSOR | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 180d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18681101 | ELECTROLYTIC CELL FOR POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYSIS AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18292363 | TREATMENT OF HYDROGEN- AND OXYGEN-CONTAINING RESIDUAL GASES OF FUEL CELLS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18574135 | QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MONITORING | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 2119 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18572897 | ELECTROLYTIC CELL FOR POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYSIS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | WONG, EDNA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18559044 | ALLOY, POWDER, METHOD AND COMPONENT | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2023 |
| 18383069 | EROSION-RESISTANT CERAMIC MATERIAL, POWDER, SLIP AND COMPONENT | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18555269 | Electrolysis device | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18274998 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE SKID COMPONENT SYSTEM | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2023 |
| 18269552 | SUPPORT STRATEGY FOR THIN-WALLED ADDITIVE STRUCTURE | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Jun 24, 2023 |
| 18266980 | IRRADIATION STRATEGY IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH PULSED IRRADIATION | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18266595 | ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED POROUS COMPONENT STRUCTURE AND MEANS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18039053 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN A 3D PRINTER USING IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18032996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE OF MECHANICAL COMPONENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, EUNHEE | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18030852 | OPERATING AN ELECTROLYSIS DEVICE | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 17918264 | DETERMINING THE FLUID DENSITY IN AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | GIROUX, GEORGE | 2128 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
| 17640683 | NICKEL-BASED ALLOY FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, METHOD AND PRODUCT | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2022 |
| 17787127 | SCANNING STRATEGY FOR VOLUME SUPPORT IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | MILLS JR., JOE E | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 18718993 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING A DRAFT TUBE SYSTEM AND EDUCTOR | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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