Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
SMA Solar Technology AG has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. This lack of examiner overlap suggests a decentralized prosecution environment for the company's current filings.
The active cases are distributed across 2 distinct art units within the patent office. This indicates that the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics innovations are being evaluated by at least two different specialized technical groups. The busiest examiner identified is LY, XUAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Since LY, XUAN handles this action out of the total pending office actions, the workload is split among the examiners. Practitioners must develop tailored strategies for each of the examiners across the 2 distinct art units to ensure successful prosecution of these technical matters. This decentralized profile requires coordinating multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, JYE-JUNE | 1 | 84.9% | +3.5% |
| RALIS, STEPHEN J | 1 | 33.5% | +42.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013406 | BRIDGE CIRCUIT AND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM | LEE, JYE-JUNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17210938 | INVERTER WITH A HOUSING HAVING A COOLING UNIT | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 175d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17210938 | INVERTER WITH A HOUSING HAVING A COOLING UNIT | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 175d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013406 | BRIDGE CIRCUIT AND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM | LEE, JYE-JUNE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 17210938 | INVERTER WITH A HOUSING HAVING A COOLING UNIT | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 3992 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 175d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2021 |
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